Oh, my goodness! After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. [...]
No man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have. (George Washington) Yeah, no kidding. George apparently had some kind of deal with God. Fresh off the farm in 1755, George Washington served as a volunteer under General Edward Braddock during the French and Indian [...]
Leadership lesson: Never assume. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he quickly realized he had made a small mistake. Police arrived at the scene to find an ill man curled up next to a motor home trying to steal gasoline and plugged his hose into the motor home’s sewage tank [...]
You can’t make this stuff up if you tried. Two burglars in Australia tunneled through a wall in an effort to break into Wrights Jewelers and instead broke in to the adjacent KFC. Instead of white diamonds they found white meat. Instead of gold nuggets they found chicken nuggets. They did manage to steal the $50 [...]
Lets face it. The problem with reporting child abuse is not whether or not to report an incident of a child with a black eye or rope burns on their wrists. The problem, even turmoil, happens when we have a gut feeling or suspicion that there MIGHT be abuse but no real obvious signs. The [...]
I don’t like to think about this, let alone be faced with a decision of what to do about it. Whether we like it or not, each of us are in situations where we may come in contact with a child being abused. As a children’s church volunteer and mom, I see 60+ kids on [...]
There are two types of Children’s Ministry communicators: Pointers and Painters. Pointers drive home specific points; Painters create an overall impression. Both can be effective. We need to understand simple points from the Bible. We cannot apply what we don’t understand. Teachers that can unfold practical truth and reduce ideas into bite-sized pieces are effective [...]
When you look under the hood of ministry you find two gears: strategy and message. Moving forward in ministry requires that you strengthen your strategy and clarify your message. You have to be effective in the way you do ministry and you have to bring a clear message that moves people forward toward relationship with [...]
There has NEVER been a better time to be in ministry. Yes, I am fully aware of the struggles in ministry today: the changing world, denominational decline, etc. But let me say it again. There has never been a better time to be in ministry. Today. Right now.
So get out of your sleeping bag. Unzip your tent. And consider this…
When political strategist, James Carville, wanted to impress upon the Clinton campaign how important it was to talk about the economy, he coined the line, “It’s the economy, stupid.” That drove the point home. To win the presidential campaign they had to stay focused on what was most important, the economy. The Bible is not [...]
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