By Ron & Michael Blue
Have you ever noticed how life can feel like a continuous barrage of competing choices? Often the choices feel impossible to make.
The story of Elijah and the widow from the book of 1 Kings 17 illustrates this dilemma well. In this story, Elijah, in ...
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Know Your Why – Part Seven –
By Ken Costa
Waiting can be so hard. Many of us know all too well the sinking feeling in the pit of our stomachs when forces outside our control conspire to put our dreams on hold. In the words of the writer of the Proverbs, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” Yet the next ...
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5LQ Episode 152: Partnership Vs. Competition in Ministry –
In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast Todd Adkins, Barnabas Piper, and Kevin Spratt discuss the differences between competition and partnership in ministry (and business). It is so easy for organizations and churches to try to out-do one another instead of working ...
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Know Your Why – Part Six –
By Ken Costa
The idea that God might call us into the humdrum and daily grind of the workplace is a fairly novel one to many people. There’s often a perception among Christians that our callings should have a distinctly religious flavor. Being called to full-time pastoral ...
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Know Your Why – Part Five –
By Ken Costa
I was talking to a friend a few months ago who was trying to understand what it means to be a Christian witness in the secular workplace. What does it look like when someone enters the workplace with a uniquely Christian calling?
Jesus told us in Matthew’s gospel ...
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Know Your Why – Part Four –
By Ken Costa
I have spent the appreciable part of adulthood living in what appears to many to be two separate worlds. The first is the financial and business world, and the other is the church-based preaching and teaching world. You might assume that these worlds inevitably ...
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