Mentee the Manatee

Mentees: Are You Failing Enough to Succeed?

As much as you like the group you serve, one day you will move on. Others may carry you out feet first, but you...
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Mistake #6. Not Taking Enough Risks.

We tend to be perfectionists as Believers. It is easy to conclude that if God wants our best effort, then we dare not step...
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Perseverance is the Name of the Game

I recently connected with someone who is introducing outreach at his church and is receiving a less than enthusiastic response. Not surprising. In general, when...
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Have You Considered Starting A Sunday PM Service?

There has been talk of late about the downside of starting Saturday evening services. Having pioneered that time slot from the get-go as an...
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What Will You Be Known For?

A friend of mine wrote a couple of popular books but those came out a ten or so years ago. He was with a...
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Six Mega-Church Pastoral Leadership Myths

I spent over 20 years starting, building and leading what became a megachurch in Ohio as you may know. I look back on that...
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Scarcity or Abundance Mindset

What we fear losing we grasp. What we grasp others tend to grasp as well. Thus we help to create an atmosphere of fear. Fear...
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I’m No Evangelist

I recently took the online inventory commonly referred to as the APEST put together by Alan Hirsch and company. I scored as a Shepherd-Prophet...
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Lesson #11: You Will Hear Clearly From God

#11: You Will Hear Clearly From God After death comes your way previous barriers to hearing from above will be eradicated. There are losses that...
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River

The move of God is pictured in the scriptures as a river consistently from Genesis to Revelation. That is a powerful picture of progress…...

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