Leadership Face One Many of us have heard it taught that God ordains leaders and places them in their positions of authority and influence. I believe this. A paraphrased look at the three most popular passages that we get this teaching from is…. Daniel 4:17, it tells us that, “the Most High rules over the […]
The “L” in Leadership is Not for “Liar”
There are several things that would disqualify a person from being a leader or at least from being considered a leader, but there are two particular reasons I want to discuss which happen to fall under the same category. The “L” in Leadership is Not for “Liar” Lying and/or Deception (which is essentially lying) is […]
Why We Don’t Beg People to Stay
I have a firm rule as a pastor. I DO NOT beg (or ask) people to stay at New Passion. I’ve always had my reasons why, but this verse, though simple, is very profound, I couldn’t have said it better myself… These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us; otherwise they […]
Welcome to Oddville
I was going to tweet this but it’s too long: I think I died and woke up in an alternate universe, you know the kind where all the people are the same, but everything is different? We had our first New Passion Leadership Meeting where all four of our key leaders (Billy Wilson, Jonothan Powell, […]
Stay in the Boat by Judah Smith
This is the message by Judah Smith from the New Spring Leadership Conference I attended several weeks ago. The actual title was “Matters of the Meantime” but the overarching theme of the message was “Stay in the Boat.” I was following Judah on Twitter, but I had never heard one of his messages. I was […]