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Tag Archives: Christian leadership
Transforming Grace Top 10 posts for 2013
Each July for the past five years I have posted a top 10 list of what people had been reading on Transforming Grace. I missed it this July, being busy, tired and distracted by other things. So to end the … Continue reading
Posted in Other matters
Tagged Christian leadership, divorce, Ebenezer Erskine, Jim Packer, Pure Heart, remarriage, transforming grace
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Transforming Grace Top 10 (2009-10)
For the past two years I’ve posted the top 10 posts of the year then taken a summer holiday. Like last year I’m going back to the CPAS youth summer camp at Edgehill school in Devon then having a rest. … Continue reading
Transforming Grace Venn diagram posts
Readers of this blog will know that I’ve written more than a few posts with Venn diagrams to help us analyse Christian personality types, leadership types, church type and so on. This post is an index of all those blogs … Continue reading
5 Christian Leadership Types
Last week I summarised chapter 2 of Knowing God by Jim Packer. In that chapter he gave 4 marks of Christian living which result from a deep knowledge of God: Great energy For God Great thoughts of God Great boldness … Continue reading
Posted in Transforming lives
Tagged boldness for God, Christian leadership, contentment, energy for God, Joy, Knowing Christ, Knowing God, Knowledge of God, Packer, Peace
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Carson Pue on Mentoring Leaders #3
Here’s a helpful list of danger zones in Christian leadership. Pue suggests that any one of these is sufficient to bring down leadership. I found it helpful to consider how each one has its own counterweight in the character, purposes … Continue reading
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Tagged Carson Pue, Christian leadership, leadership, Mentoring Leaders
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Carson Pue on Mentoring Leaders #2
I have a six-month review in a couple of weeks’ time. I want to make the most of the opportunity to have helpful and realistic feedback on how my ministry and leadership is going. In Mentoring Leaders, Carson Pue recommends … Continue reading
Carson Pue on Mentoring Leaders #1
Here’s the first of my notes from one of my summer reads, Carson Pue’s Mentoring Leaders. It’s great holiday read; anecdotal, clear and provides a useful spiritual self-examination as well as guidance on developing other leaders. Pue insists, rightly, that … Continue reading
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