[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] The best leaders are the best followers. Some of the most dangerous leaders are those who […]
[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] The prophet Isaiah put it this way: “For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us. Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and treachery against the LORD,
[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] There are major challenges to a wisdom-based leadership model today. In a time when we look
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] Whenever I hear a public figure defend himself with the oft-repeated words “I know I’m not a perfect person,” I wince. It seems the height of pride. I feel like saying, “No, the thought never crossed anybody’s mind
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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] There are many variables in spiritual leadership. Some people are specially gifted in administration, others in
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] To understand how God wants to “make everything new” in the world and in our lives we have to go back to when humanity was new the first time. That is why we are so captivated by the
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The definition of what we are trying to do with this network we’re calling “The Brook Network” is “sharing ideas, pursuing wisdom.” There are so many great ideas in the world today regarding Christian life and Christian leadership. And, more than that, there is wisdom from God available to us–if we care to seek it.
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] In the beginning God created all things, and that tells us about his character. The world is a place of beauty, complexity and order, because that is what God is like. But it is when the Genesis account
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] On the night before Christmas in the year 1968 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders, the crew of Apollo 8, were further away from the earth than any human beings had been. It was the first time
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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] [Continued from “When Crisis Hits”] We must put out of our minds any feeling that
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[This post is in a weekly devotional series called Everything New. Sign up here if you’re interested.] They say you only have one chance to make a first impression. That is because “new” can only be new once. What an impression God made at the start of all things. The very beginning of the very
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It has been thirteen weeks since we started a year-long study on renewing spiritual leadership today. If you are a follower of Christ and if you have influence in someone else’s life, you are in a position of spiritual leadership. Today we don’t need a handful of elites who claim to be “spiritual leaders.” We
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With the dramatic announcement of the demise of Osama bin Laden tonight I find myself recalling the somber Sunday that followed 9/11, people stunned and broken-hearted filing into the sanctuary to worship. Profound silence, many tears during communion. The day after the attack my eyes fell on Psalm 25: “No one whose hope is in
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[This article is part of the “spiritual leadership today” study/discussion. 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 is tested in the face of crisis. And crisis is the moment when spiritual leadership is most needed.
I thought that the dust may be settling in the controversy stirred up by Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins, but with this as a cover story of TIME Magazine—“What If There’s No Hell: A Popular Pastor’s Best-Selling Book Has Stirred Fierce Debate About Sin, Salvation, and Judgment”–it is apparent the dust storm may just be
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