Leadership in Context

You can understand someone more by the questions they ask than the answers they have. Here are some great questions to ask yourself each day: What is my priority today? What can I delegate today? What can be learned today? Who can I help today? Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

If you want to be a good vision-bearer, if you want God to trust you with more vision, you have to first be a steward of that vision. God has to be able to trust you with the details. God has given you a vision to lead something. Write the details down. Then, in the right setting, download those and do it with joy and excitement to liberate the talent that is in other’s lives. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

When we discern there are things that are not profitable to the things God has called us to do and the people He has called us to be, how do we handle those distractions? How do we handle those interruptions? A good leader knows how to respond to an opportunity. A good leader is also not drawn away by something that masquerades as an opportunity. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

All authority is delegated authority. Anyone with a title, a throne, a dominion, a badge—they are all subject to the authority of God. When they command us to do evil, we do not have to obey those unjust commands. When they want us to participate in evil, then the Church has no responsibility to comply. According to Romans 13, they are only allowed to help us do good and not to do evil. The other side of this is that we should be people who look for a way to cooperate with authority. That should be our posture—how can we cooperate without violating the ordinance of God, His law, and His heart? Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Man is not basically good. He is basically evil. He is able to commit every vile act and every vile sin. Scripture spends a lot of time establishing the fact that man is evil and must be born again, must get a new nature, must be redeemed, must come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Man needs to be more than reformed; he needs to be transformed. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

God is the only just and authoritative lawmaker. All good laws come from God. All laws that need to be judged need to be filtered through God’s laws and His judgment. This is a foundation for righteous thinking. You have to have righteousness before you can have fairness or justice. You have to know what is right. God is the only One who is allowed to say what is right. Man is futile in his attempt to pursue justice and fairness without God. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

The first way we see God, in Genesis 1, is that of creator. Not a creator in the sense of a divine spark or evolutionary spark. When God made things, He made them complete. When He made man, He made man complete. When He made an apple tree, He made it complete, not in some kind of evolutionary stage. Many people talk about God as a creator, but they are referring to an initiator, not a creator. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

Often people ask, at what point do we resist? Before there is resistance, there is non-compliance. Resistance is what you DO to push back. Non-Compliance is what you DON’T DO to push back. Non-compliance is not contributing anything that empowers evil. Before we take a stand of non-compliance, we need to have an inward resolve, with integrity. More than just being bothered by something, we need to understand what we would be contributing to if we were to comply. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

What happens when you try to sow something and cut off the reaping of it? Why has child prevention, what we call contraception today, become so acceptable and in most cases, not even thought through? Are children a blessing, or are just some children a blessing? If all children are a blessing (and they are), are there any other blessings that we work overtime to limit? Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE. 

We were made in the image of God--made male and female. When those images are blurred, it blurs the image of God. The transgender movement is working to nullify the voice of God in our culture, in people’s lives and nullify the ability to say anything is right or wrong or state something is clearly what it is. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE.