Wow! I just finished reading Mike Kim’s new book, You Are the Brand, and I feel like I’ve attended a weeklong boot camp on starting a personal brand business from the ground up.
Tag: Leadership
Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership, 2nd Edition
With missions spanning the sector and budgets ranging from thousands to millions of dollars, these diverse leaders share their stories—stories which are both eye-opening and inspirational.
Book Review: The Self-Evolved Leader by Dave McKeown
Brené Brown. Stephen Covey. Jim Loehr. Cal Newport. Carol Dweck. Simon Sinek. Michael Hyatt. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Henry Cloud. Whether they have opened your eyes to view vulnerability as courage, motivated you to find your why, or advocated for you to set clear boundaries with others, each of these best-selling authors and speakers has shifted the…
Acts 6:1-7 ~ Hellenists, Serving Tables & Widows
This week we cross-examined the “traditional” interpretation of this passage while we dug into the details of the text. For example, were the 12 apostles really neglecting the Hellenistic widows in the daily distribution of food? Does that make any sense at all? And were the Hellenists actually chosen to be the first deacons? What…
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Acts 6:1-7 ~ Organic Growth of the Early Church
This week we started a new section of Acts where Luke turns our attention away what was going on in the Temple courts to the inevitable challenges of exponential growth and diversity. We evaluated internal evidence that Luke was possibly using a new source(s) for this section including the introduction of previously unused terms which…
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Acts 5:11-16 ~ Shadows, Signs & Wonders
This week, we finished up the study of Ananias and Sapphira by comparing and contrasting their experience in Acts 5 to the story of Achan in Joshua 7. It seems as though each of these events took place at the beginning of the founding of a faith community. If the stories are indeed parallel, then,…
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