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Leadership like this doesn't happen by accident; it happens in the room, on purpose. Step in. Be that leader.
Bible Study - Philippians 2
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Philippians 2:3–4 ESV
Bible Study - Philippians 1
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:6 ESV
What’ Next?
But here's the real question: what about your leadership? It's not just you in the crosshairs anymore. Your team is watching. Your organization is watching. They want to know — what's next?
Bible Study - Ephesians 6
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."
Ephesians 6:1–3 ESV
Bible Study - Ephesians 5
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Ephesians 5:33 ESV
Spinning Hats
Ground yourself first. Show up as you. Breathe before you enter. Value the person more than the outcome. Then ask the litmus test question: what would that person say about you afterward?
Bible Study - Ephesians 4
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 4:4–6 ESV
Bible Study - Ephesians 3
...so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:17–19 ESV
Bible Study - Ephesians 2
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
Ephesians 2:4–6 ESV
Sowing and Reaping: You’re Always Planting Something
Every day, we're sowing into multiple facets of our lives, whether we mean to or not. Name a category — you're sowing into it. Doing nothing is still sowing into something. Your interest or your neglect is a seed. You don't get to opt out of the equation.
Bible Study - Ephesians 1
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 1:13–14 ESV
Bible Study - Galatians 6
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Galatians 6:7–8 ESV
Bible Study - Galatians 5
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22–23 ESV
Bible Study - Galatians 4
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" 7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Galatians 4:6–7 ESV
Bible Study - Galatians 3
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.
Galatians 3:28–29 ESV
The Day I Preached my Own Marriage
We challenged the room to quote it over their marriages. To actually ask God for infinitely more than they could picture — in a relationship they'd maybe stopped expecting much from.
Bible Study - Galatians 2
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 2:15–16 ESV
Outside of Work, What Do You Genuinely Look Forward to Each Week?
For me, the answer was simple — start the day with Bible reading, then a workout, then a prayer walk
Bible Study - Galatians 1
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10 ESV