The jolt of leadership
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Dear Seminarian,
This month we asked our bloggers what they wish they’d known as they graduated seminary and began their ministry. Here are their..
Membership: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”
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Lent and the gym
Would you continue to go to a gym where many of the personal trainers seemed out of shape? What if those trainers..
Three habits of highly effective pastors
1 - Remembering names. We sing, “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound!” But, Dale Carnegie wrote that the sweetest sound to a..