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Chicagoland: It's All About the Mission!
You are invited to attend! Bring a friend!
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Tagged chicago, Dr. Matthew Smith, First Presbyterian Church, Matthew Smith, mission
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Reaching Your Community in Your Generation Weekend
Artwork Credit: networkworld.com The world around us changes approximately every 18 months! Such change brings great challenges to our mission. Eagles In Leadership has designed a weekend to help you energize your congregation or organization to fulfill the Great Commission … Continue reading
7 Actions of Valor in a Leader
A Study of Gideon Judges 8 Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some … Continue reading
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Tagged attack, Christian, compensation, consequences, cooperation, Gideon, Judges, leader, Leadership, mighty man of valor, mighty men of valor, mission, missional, Old Testament, praise, transformation, uncooperative, unrepentant, valor, victory
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How God Works For and With Us!
A Lesson from the Life of Joshua (Joshua 1-3) So many times we wait for God to act … whether that is for a new job, a new ministry, a spouse. We are waiting for God to do something. And … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Christian leader, God's command, God's direction, God's Word, leader, Leadership, mission, mission of God, obedience, will of God
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When Fear Grips Your Viability!
Editor’s Note: We continue our series of blogs for those who are reading the Bible with us cover-to-cover this year. Interspersed with our thoughts on our daily reading, we want to provide some tips about reading the Bible in general. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Deuteronomy, emotion, emotions, fear, Leadership, mission, purpose, responsibility
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Sweeter As the Years Go By?
by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith Executive Director of EaglesInLeadership.org Author of “Growing Missional Leaders” “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who … Continue reading
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Tagged crabby, discipleship, fellowship, grumpy, Leadership, maturity, ministry, mission, spiritual, spiritual maturtity, stewardship, worship
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Help! Our Community Is Changing! (Part 2)
by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith (c) 1999 In part 1 we discussed the rise and decline of the urban church. We ended our Somewhere between the birth and the death of the local church selfishness took center stage, replacing self-sacrifice. … Continue reading
Help! Our Community Is Changing! (Part 1)
by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith (c) 1999 With tears in my eyes, I realized God had accomplished what He had set out to do among us. Our church now looked like our urban community, over 90% Hispanic. We had intentionally … Continue reading
Mutual Accountability
by Dr. Matthew Lee Smith PhD One of the key secrets to great growth – individually and corporately – is the issue of accountability and the change that comes from it. In fact, when we evaluate based on the core … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, core values, discipleship, evaluation, evaluations, Leadership, mission, search committee, transparency, Vision
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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
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Tagged magnification, maintenance, maturity, membership, mentoring, ministry, mission, Vision
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