Can a Preacher Be an Elder?
Yes How do I know? The Bible tells me so. Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of...
Culleoka, Tennessee: New Shepherds Orientation Workshop # 16
…April 9-11, 2019, mutual admiration Identification of people in the above photo: from left to right: Jerrie Barber, Gail Barber,...
Would You Die Before You’d Ask for Help?
Why would a dying person not call for a doctor? I felt helpless. A man I’d never seen before came...
Book of the Quarter: Love Works
Love Works: seven timeless principles for effective leaders, by Joel Manby, Copyright © 2012 by Joel K. Manby Zondervan, Grand...
Coach, How Do You Plan to Win More…even if team members don’t show up for practice and miss many games?
A preacher had done well. The church was growing. He was happy. He received communication from a men’s meeting asking...
My First Raise and Why I Turned it Down…how wise and kind shepherds helped a scared young preacher
I’d been at this church about a year. It was my second full-time work. I was twenty-four years old. The...
How to Build and Maintain a Dysfunctional Group: “I know..but we need” (You can’t take enough vitamins to make poison good for you.)
How many times have you known someone in a congregation (elder, preacher, deacon, Bible teacher, man, woman) who is toxic...
“A bishop then must be blameless”…how in the world do you do that?
My observation: a great weakness of many leaders (preachers, elders, parents, others): the hard rule they have that they won’t...
Deer Park, Texas, NSO Workshop # 15
…a relationship that started 47 years ago I’d never heard of Deer Park, Texas before October 1972. Malcolm Hill was...
River Road Leadership Workshop
New Shepherds Orientation Workshop # 14 April 26-28 was the weekend of the New Shepherds Orientation Workshop for River Road....
