[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] If someone were to ask you, “Who are you, really?” a complete answer would have to include something about the invisible you, the part within and apart from the body. One of the truest things you can say about […]
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Why do bad things happen to innocent people? Is there any purpose in it all? Here is where the issue stings. If I have to suffer, is it all for nothing? Must I pay such a high price for
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[I have given copies of this to many leaders, and have had leadership groups listen to the audio in groups. This is a seminal address. Every Christian leader should read this!] John Stott’s Final Public Address ‘The model – becoming more like Christ.’ Sermon delivered at the Keswick Convention July 17th 2007. I remember very
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[Rev. John R. W. Stott, one of the greatest Bible teachers, pastors, and evangelical statesmen of all time, passed away this morning. Here are some reflections I had written a few weeks back…] One day New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a piece called “Who Is John Stott?” Brooks was bemoaning the fact that
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Suffering is often the direct result of the sinful things humans do to each other. The first murder occurred just four chapters into the Bible. What’s worse is that it was a brother killing his own brother. Why did
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] When I visited Esther in her tin shed in a Nairobi slum, I found myself talking to the person closest to Job in the Old Testament that I’d ever met. I didn’t know at that moment that she was
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Spiritual Influence: The Hidden Power Behind Leadership by Mel Lawrenz (Zondervan, 2012). Hardcover. 212 Pages. ISBN 978-0310492702 “If you are in a position of positive influence, if you exercise leadership in any way, your faith in God gives you a power—a hidden power—that will allow you to make an enduring difference in the lives of other
Since influence is all about people, it only makes sense to explore the dynamics of our spiritual influence with other people. “Circles of Influence” is a simple method anyone can use to take a few weeks and discover how to deepen one’s influence with friends, colleagues, or co-workers. “Circles of Influence” is an excellent team-building
There is an exciting movement today in which people from all walks of life are trying to have a deeper and more enduring influence in their work and relationships. We are all influencers, and we are all being influenced all the time–so, how can that influence be good and lasting? And how does the spiritual dimension
[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 biblical concept of the mind points to an amazing dignity and power of human experience.
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] When we relate the pieces of life back to God as source, and believe that the pieces are there for him and his purposes, we can see the sense in it all. Regarding the human race, broken into so
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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] Today there are a hundred reasons to live superficially. It is the easy way. The convenient
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] All the kings horses and all the kings men, couldn’t put Humpty together again. -Nursery Rhyme Life would be easier, wouldn’t it, if all its pieces held together. If they always made sense. If nothing ever broke off. If
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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 Leadership tab at the top of the page. To have them delivered, subscribe to The Brook Letter] Spiritual leadership today means inviting people to follow by listening, watching, and imitating. Not that this
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Against the gray clouds and darkness across the human race stands one distinctive life-a brilliant, even blinding light. Jesus the Messiah, called many things, is also known uniquely as “him who had no sin” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Because the
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