For the next few weeks of devotionals, I want to share some Christian leadership principles with you guys. I was first introduced to these in college, but they have stuck with me, and I find them valuable in everyday life. They are also accompanied by...
As you may have seen today on social media, it’s “World Kindness Day.” While this holiday was started in 1998, I’m pretty sure this is the first I’ve heard of it, but I love it! Many are celebrating by wearing a cardigan in honor of...
Lord… We thank you for your church, founded upon your Word, that challenges us to do more than sing and pray, but go out and work as though the very answer to our prayers depended on us and not upon you. Help us to realize that...
As I mentioned last week, for the month of October, we are looking at some of the more well-known prayers that are part of our recent and no-so-recent Christian history. The prayer we are starting with today was originally know as the Paradoxical Commandment by...
I know that for some in our organization, this has been a challenging a week. I guess that’s really true of most weeks in most organizations like ours. When there are over 500 people doing the work that we do every day, really getting in...
The practice that we are looking at this week is Vocation, or as Barbara Brown Taylor puts it, “The Practice of Living with Purpose.” I feel like this is an especially fitting practice for us, as our paid vocations all reside at the same organization. However,...
Emotional intelligence, emotional quotient and EQ – we’ve all heard these terms, which describe the ability to manage and accept responsibility for our own emotions. And, we’ve heard that it’s one of the most valuable skills a person can learn.But how do we learn it?Understanding...
This week’s practice in Barbara Brown Taylor’s An Altar in the World is the “Practice of Wearing Skin.” This is the idea that we need to be aware of the fact that God’s design for us includes a physical body, and we need to be...
As we are looking at different passages from Psalms this month, I can’t help but spend a week on my favorite Psalm, which also happens to be one of my favorite passages in the entire Bible. Psalm 126:1-3 says, When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we...
As today begins May, we are going to begin a new study topic for our weekly devos. We will spend the month of May looking at different verses from the book of Psalms, and see what God has for us from this book of songs...
