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The Advantage: Vulnerability
We’re working our way through Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business. Lencioni consults with businesses, nonprofits, and churches, and he frequently explains how the lessons apply especially to churches, because the work churches do … Continue reading
The Advantage: 5 Essential Team Behaviors
We’re working our way through Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business. Lencioni consults with businesses, nonprofits, and churches, and he frequently explains how the lessons apply especially to churches, because the work churches do … Continue reading
The Advantage: The Leadership Team
We’re working our way through Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business. Lencioni consults with businesses, nonprofits, and churches, and he frequently explains how the lessons apply especially to churches, because the work churches do … Continue reading
The Advantage: Four Disciplines
We’re working our way through Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business. Lencioni consults with businesses, nonprofits, and churches, and he frequently explains how the lessons apply especially to churches, because the work churches do … Continue reading
The Advantage: Patrick Lencioni’s Latest Book
Long-time readers will recall that I’m a big fan of Patrick Lencioni’s work, especially The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable and Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into … Continue reading
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Creation 2.0: Supplemental Reading and a Closing Thought or Two
I’d just finished writing this series when two marvelous posts by other authors came to my attention. These are too good not to include in the lesson material and should be read by the teachers. And they are welcome to … Continue reading
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Creation 2.0: God’s Cosmic Plan, Part 2
God’s cosmic plan, dating back to the foundations of the Creation, is for us to be saved so that we’ll do certain works that he prepared for us. What works? He begins to explain in — (Eph 4:11-12 ESV) 11 … Continue reading
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Creation 2.0: God’s Cosmic Plan, Part 1
Ephesians is perhaps Paul’s most global, cosmic epistle — although Colossians gives it a run for its money. If you want the big picture, flip to Ephesians. (Eph 1:3-6 ESV) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord … Continue reading
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Creation 2.0: The New Creation, Part 2
Paul gives a lesson on how to be new creations in Colossians. (A very interesting and rewarding epistle we rarely cover in Bible class. I have no idea why.) (Col 3:8-10 ESV) 8 But now you must put them all … Continue reading
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Creation 2.0: The New Creation, Part 1
There’s this strand of thought in the New Testament that we rarely talk about (well, several such strands are out there, actually). You see, Paul likes to talk about Christians as being a “new creation.” (2Co 5:17 ESV) Therefore, if … Continue reading
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