To increase stress, let others press you into their molds, try to please everyone, wing it and don’t sweat the details, try to do a lot of things at one time, do everything yourself because other people are a pain and get in the way, prayer time is a waste of time and work is…
Good leaders have both a soft and hard side. They are both sensitive and decisive. Their strength is in God, not self. God exalts them as they wait upon Him. Not everyone can aspire to leadership because it involves severe testing and discipline. In his early days, Saul exemplified these character qualities of good leadership. …
When life makes no sense, I have a tendency to question God. When people went behind my back in a hostile take over of my ministry, I wondered what was going on. Could God really use this in my life? Yes! Tests like these develop patience and integrity as preparation for future usefulness. Trusting God’s…
From an unknown source: “Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.” Gen. 38 illustrates this progression through the life of Judah after he sowed wrong thoughts. Sow a Thought…
Studies show that most people fail because of character, not competence. Most leadership training today prioritizes planning and skill instead of character and heart issues. According to leadership expert, Warren Bennis, the “core competency of leadership is character, but character and judgment are the qualities that we know least about when trying to teach them to others….
Early in my corporate career, I exhibited bad attitudes and anger because of stress. Within my purchasing job, I felt pressure to meet the expectations of others, so became impatient instead of calmly arguing my case and trusting God for the result. Abraham allowed pressurized situations to prompt him to lie. In Gen. 20, you…
In 1642, young students learned moral lessons from the Bible within the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the 1800s, public schools used McGuffey Readers, which followed the teachings of the Bible teaching students how to read as they developed traits of honesty, kindness and courage. Character education continued to shape America’s public school system until the…