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This blog is intended to be a resource for leaders who are pursuing best practices in their pulpits, homes, and everyday lives.
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Leadership and Encouragement Part 3
Recently, I purchased a book simply because of a quote on the front cover: That quote is a valid principle of life and leadership. Probably the clearest example of this principle is found in the life of David in 1 Samuel 30:1-8. 1And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag…
Leadership and Encouragement—Part 2
Barnabas is perhaps the most-well known encourager in the New Testament. In fact, he embodied encouragement so much that the apostles changed his name from Joseph to Barnabas, which means “son of encouragement.” There are five biblical examples in which Barnabas clearly demonstrated the characteristics of an encourager. Encouragers do something tangible to edify and…
Leaders and Encouragement Part 1
In their book, The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner present a model—The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The last practice, “Encouraging the Heart,” is a topic so important that the authors wrote an entire book about it—Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others. The “Seven Essentials to Encouraging” outlined in…
Mitchell Corder 