[This article is part of the “spiritual leadership today” study/discussion going on this year. For all articles in the series, click the Spiritual Influence tab at the top of the page. To have them delivered, subscribe to The Brook Letter] “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of […]
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Imagine our confusion if we thought that God is glorious (sometimes) or is Spirit (once in a while) or knows us (at least 75% of us, plus or minus 5%). No, whatever God is, he is consistently. God “does
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[This article is part of the “spiritual leadership today” study/discussion going on this year. For all articles in the series, click the Spiritual Influence tab at the top of the page. To have them delivered, subscribe to The Brook Letter] The core issues of integrity remain the same across the ages and across cultures. The coherence
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Because God is personal, he is a knowing being. His mind perceives truth and defines truth. He embraces us with a knowledge that is not just stored information in a Super-Divine File, but is an extension of love. His
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[This article is part of the “spiritual leadership today” study/discussion going on this year. For all articles in the series, click the Spiritual Influence tab at the top of the page. To have them delivered, subscribe to The Brook Letter] What is exciting about the possibilities of spiritual influence is that it is about the issues
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It has been exciting to get to know our sixteen guests from fifteen different foreign countries for this year’s International Center session at Elmbrook Church. They are leaders from Romania, India, Lebanon, Myanmar, Viet Nam, Malawi, England, Nicaragua, Argentina, Ecuador, Nigeria, Kenya, Liberia, the Philippines and Nepal. Wow! They are great people, with compelling stories
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] How can we summarize what God means when he tells us he simply is? When Moses asked God what his name was (for there were many alternative names for gods), God’s answer was, “I AM WHO I AM.” This
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Have you found that the longer you live, the more you realize your own finitude? Perhaps you used to think you could accomplish anything, but you’ve grown to realize you can do what God has enabled you to do
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Registration opens soon for the upcoming No Regrets men’s conference with this year’s special speaker, Dr. Tony Evans and great seminar options. You can attend in multiple locations in the greater Milwaukee area at Elmbrook Church, Westbrook Church, New Testament Church, or at other locations throughout the country. It is also not too late to
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[This article is part of the “spiritual leadership today” study/discussion going on this year. For all articles in the series, click the Spiritual Influence tab at the top of the page. To have them delivered, subscribe to The Brook Letter] “Influence” is a significant word, packed with rich meaning. The Latin influentia means something that flows
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Jesus said, “a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his
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Scot McKnight offers excerpts of two different angles on this. One by Richard Mouw, the other by Al Mohler.
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] God is great; God is good; and we thank him for our food. Amen. I must have spoken those simple words hundreds of times at the dinner table when I was a child, but I most certainly did not
[This article is in the practical series Personal Productivity 101. “All hard work brings a profit.” Proverbs 14:23] Some people pride themselves on the sharpness of their memories, others continually embarrass themselves by forgetting appointments, tasks, or people. Life in the modern world isn’t getting simpler. We like all the connections we can make with
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[This article is in the practical series Personal Productivity 101. “All hard work brings a profit.” Proverbs 14:23] For some time now I’ve wanted to write a series on the topic of personal productivity. When I was in my early twenties I realized that when I learned about some method of working smart, of being organized, or
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