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Category Archives: Leadership Blog
Leadership Development – By the Appetite!
by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, PhD If you know me at all, you know that I am a Star Trek fan – all genres. One of the most important lessons I learned in leadership came in an episode of Star … Continue reading
7-Fold Blessing From Our Loving God!
by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, PhD “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer … Continue reading
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Tagged blessing, deliverance, fear, frustration, honor, long life, rescue, salvation, satisfy, tears, troubles, valley of the shadow of death
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Vision is All About Where You Look
by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, PhD Faith is all about seeing what God has placed before you. Vision, in other words, is our faith employed through our attention to the details God has placed before us. But the question is, … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog
Tagged magnification, maintenance, maturity, membership, mentoring, ministry, mission, Vision
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I’ve Been Dreaming …
by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith, PhD For the past few years I have been praying and dreaming about what a healthy church ministry would look like. At this moment, as I am between ministries and looking ahead in anticipation of … Continue reading
The Timeline of Transformation
by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith So you’ve decided to begin a new ministry in an established organization. You have high hopes that God will do wonderful things. As you unpack your things in your new office, it helps to know … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Multi-ethnic / Urban
Tagged church growth, core leadership, Enthusiasm, realization, Solomon, Timeline, transformation, trepidation
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Ministry is About Shepherding!
Mary Kay is purported to have said, “There is an invisible sign hanging around every person’s neck and it says, ‘Encourage Me!’” Over the years I have discovered that the people who speak encouragement into my life and seek me … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog, Multi-ethnic / Urban
Tagged accept, affection, care, connection, contact, encourage, encouragement, friend, friends, Mary Kay, ministry, respond, shepherd, shepherding, transformation
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Do People TRUST you?
Our conversation turned to the issue of trust. We had been talking about why my friend was struggling in his current ministry. Things had been going well for a while, and then, out of no where, people seemed to slow … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog
Tagged responsibility, sacrifice, team, team building, tenacity, transparency, Trust, unselfishness
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The Dark Times
As I move into the third week of my unemployment from my 4-year ‘intentional interim’ pastorate, I have been blessed by many who have written messages of encouragement and prayer. Having been unemployed once before for 13 months, Melodee and … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog
Tagged darkness, depression, God's will, prayer, seeking, sorrow, storms of life, unemployment
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Human Beings or Human Doings?
By Dr. Matthew Lee Smith What’s life all about? Think about it for a minute … as you start answering, be sure to write your ideas on paper. As you scribble some thoughts down, take a look at them more … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership Blog
Tagged calender, career, daytimer, hobbies, human beings, meaning in life, purpose in life, relationships
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