Leader Extras
Family reunions have been a part of my life since … well, since I became part of the family. For all my growing up years, the Briscoe family reunion (Mississippi chapter) took place annually on the second Sunday afternoon in July. I have a 1954 family photo showing my mother—very pregnant with me—in attendance at […]
In their book Spiritual Leadership, Henry and Richard Blackaby point to five ways God authenticates a leader. These are: God fulfills His promises to the leader and the leader’s organization, God vindicates the person’s reputation over time, lives are changed, others recognize God as the driving force behind the leader’s agenda, and people are becoming […]
“Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.” (Billy Sunday) It’s inevitable that temptations will come to us; it is not inevitable that we must give in to them when they do. Scripture promises that, with temptation, God provides “a way out” (1 Cor. 10:12). Consider […]
Beginning in the Spring of 2019, the adult weekly training video found on Ministry Grid will become a weekly training podcast. So why do this? So you can hear from more people. In the past, you usually gained insight from one person. Now you will hear from multiple people over the course of the quarter, […]
Have you ever had a recurring dream? I had one for several years as a youngster. It was inspired, I still believe, by an episode of a TV show I had watched in which a young boy and his collie dog felt threatened by a lion running loose around their home. In my dream, I […]
“So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female” (Gen. 1:27). This changes everything, doesn’t it? That every life is created in God’s image changes our view of people. It changes our actions toward them. It changes the issues we care about […]
My wife loves to cook. And she is very good at it. Watching her prepare our family’s weekly Sunday lunch is like observing an artist at work. Only it’s better, because I know that we will soon dine on her culinary masterpieces. For an hour or two after church service on Sunday, the delicious spread […]
After 20 years of working for Laban in Haran, God told Jacob it was time to go home: “The Lord said to him, ‘Go back to the land of your fathers’” (Gen. 31:3). Do you wonder how God spoke to Jacob? Did He speak in an audible voice? Did the voice come in a dream, […]
One of my favorite Christmas movies is the 1947 classic Miracle on 34th Street. Evidently a lot of other people have liked this movie too. It won three Academy Awards in its debut year. In 2005, the U.S. Library of Congress selected the movie for preservation in the National Film Registry, recognizing the film as […]
The marriage of Jacob and Leah (Genesis 29) raises all kinds of unanswerable questions. Did Leah help plan the deception or was the scheme concocted by her dad alone? Could Leah have said no to the scheme? Where was Rachel when this was going on? Did Rachel know what was happening? Who else in the […]