Featured Articles on Trans·formed This Week
Bloodstains on White Sheets. So, if you need to clean something, here’s my suggestion: don’t put blood on it. Yet that’s exactly what they do in the Old Testament. Got a dirty altar? Sprinkle some blood on it (Lev 16:19). Dirty house? More blood (Lev 14:52). Dirty person? Yep, again with the blood (Lev 14:25). It was so common that the author of Hebrews comments, “under the law almost everything is purified with blood” (Heb 9:22).
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Leadership Direction: Organizational Life Stage. Leaders who desire to make a positive difference too often start with organizational mission and vision. As this series has (hopefully) shown, there are many questions and issues to address well before looking at the organization’s future. But there comes a time when the leader does need to turn his or her attention away from questions of self (e.g., Who am I? What do I have to offer?) and toward questions related to the organization.
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Lice or Not. Cathie’s opening sentence grabbed our attention. She went on to tell us of a recent encounter she had with a homeless man in the Pearl district of Portland. The sign he held asked for $1. She asked him, “If I give you a dollar will that buy your next beer?” He replied, “No, I prefer whiskey.”
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Other Posts of Interest from around the Web
- The Priority of Character. All the causes of either visible or pending failure stem from a failure to cultivate the inner life. Look at the list of the causes of fruitlessness. They are the results of failing to know ourselves, failing to believe the gospel, and forgetting the truth of God’s word. Thus, we must cultivate the work of the inner life.
- 7 Ways I Want to Improve as a Pastor. This week I start a new journey. You can read about it HERE. I’m in a good place in life for this change. I’m old enough to have learned a few things, but also old enough to know I have so much I need to learn. As I do with the start of a new year, only on a larger scale, I view transitions as an opportunity to make significant improvements in how I lead. I get a fresh start. There are a few things I want to do differently.
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