Category Archives: LEADERSHIP

What to do with your strengths and weaknessess as a leader

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Dennis
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Never too Old

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Dennis

Galileo made some of his greatest scientific discoveries at the age of 73. John Glenn returned to space at the age of 75. Benjamin Franklin was a framer of the U.S. constitution at the age of 81. Michelangelo was still … Continue reading →

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Creating the Church Culture

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Dennis

Here are my notes on yesterday’s talk from our church management team regarding the culture we need to create as a church. Italics are my own comments. 1. The missional culture. The passionate vision of a world wide church planting … Continue reading →

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Doing work that Matters

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dennis

Seth Godin blog something really remarkable that every pastor should take heed. I am reposting his blog and will comment The first rule of doing work that matters Go to work on a regular basis. Art is hard. Selling is … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Pride

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Dennis

This is a tough one because I am a proud man. I hate to admit it but I am. A pastor can easily succumb to pride. Moral pride because we are good compare to a normal person. We pray, we … Continue reading →

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Better before Bigger

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Dennis

Last Tuesday our team listened to Andy Stanley’s latest leadership podcast on why we need to be better and not bigger. He talks about how as we get better people demand that we get bigger. A lot of times we … Continue reading →

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Leadership Trap

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Dennis

After reading the book Linchpin by Seth Godin – I came home with one very important lesson – REAL ARTISTS SHIP. As a pastor of a church – we ship every week. The product that we ship is our homily. … Continue reading →

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Focus on your Strengths

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Dennis

From today to Sept 30, i’ll be trying to blog on some leadership lessons I have been learning that has truly made an impact in my life and my ministry. So today is leadership lesson 1: YOUR TEAM MUST FOCUS … Continue reading →

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who’s the leader?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Dennis

The past two weeks is sort of a reassessment of my leadership. Last month we got a really great, convicting PEP talk from Pastor Steve Murrell on leadership. The talk sort of opened a box for our church staff to … Continue reading →

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The Expendables in your church

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Dennis

Do you have the Stallones, Willis, Statham, Li, Crews, Rourke, Couture who backs you up pastor? Who are the expendables in your church? Who backs you up? Who are the elders or what we call “olders” in church who you … Continue reading →

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