Discovering talents for God’s kingdom
Rev. Peggy Kennedy on Judges 4 and 5, on a woman who had pitched that tent a hundred times before she used the hammer for anything else, and on what the Hebrew actually means.
George Powell on the year that nearly finished him, what the Dean said in reply, and why leadership is a process rather than a place you arrive at.
George Powell on why most people disqualify themselves from the word — and the nine things that actually build influence, starting with the one Eisenhower called the supreme quality.
The manager who never leaves the chair. The supreme leader who decides by preference. And Elijah, who went from calling down fire to lying under a tree asking to die.
Part two. Most people want the giant opportunity now and are not patient enough to be faithful in the small things. A pastor who spent his first seventeen years in churches of under three hundred on what that time was for.
He was twenty-one and running the youth programme. She did not like how he was doing it and told everyone except him. Three things a pastor of thirty-nine years has learned about the things that tower over us.
Five things a pastor of thirty-nine years has learned about getting on with people, starting with the two he calls the ugly twin sisters.
He used to tell his sons he felt sorry for people whose work had no eternal significance. He does not say that any more, and this is the article explaining why.
A small thing left unsaid in a coffee shop, and what it costs at scale. Four questions worth asking before you open your mouth, and one before you keep it shut.
He enrolled in Bible college at nineteen as what he calls a reluctant leader, asking Moses's question: who am I that I should lead these people? Thirty-nine years later he has an answer.
They demand more than is reasonable, return products claiming to have found foreign objects, and are never satisfied. Which raises the harder question: why does anyone do business with you?
