Archive for June, 2009

Starting the day off on the right foot…

(…or should I say on the right knee). I have for far too long heard it preached at me and said to me to start my day off in God’s Word. However, I am not always a morning person. In fact, sleeping is a favorite, if not my very favorite, past-time for me. I usually [...]

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Weekend Recap

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Becoming a disciple = leader?

As part of our Connections Ministry here at Oak Leaf, I give a lot of oversight as to how we develop leaders. What should they be learning? Who is mentoring them? Where are they drawing their strength from? Who are they raising up to take their place? And the list goes on and on. But [...]

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In the dark?

Having been a leader for a little while, there is something by which I now judge other leaders. That is their integrity. Integrity, if you were to look it up, is to be whole or unimpaired, not to be compromised. Looking at it from the perspective of a leader it means, “Do you do the [...]

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Is it “god” or “God”…?

During the summer my 5- and 7-year-olds have “summer work” to complete. I know; I’m one of “those Moms.” My-7-year old, Dillon, had to write five fact-based sentences on a story he’d just read. In one of his sentences he spelled “God” out as “g-o-d.” So I circled it as incorrect, and told him the [...]

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