"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. Since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law." - Romans 3:28, 30-31The human mind would never have conceived a plan of salvation like God’s. Every other reli...  Read More

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith.'” - Romans 1:16-17I often ask myself the question, “If I were a lay person in my church and invited someone to worship with me,...  Read More

It’s been said that everything rises and falls on leadership. Leaders often say this when the organization is going well—seldom said when it’s struggling. I know that we have a tendency to make excuses for shortcomings or failures in leadership. We want to blame others, the economy, or the culture. Still others, however, feel a load of guilt, a sense of failure, when their organization is struggli...  Read More

"And the apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith.' So the Lord said, 'If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.'" - Luke 17:5-6Your faith is the most important thing about you. We are not only saved by faith, but we live by faith. One application of faith is that, “faith is believing ...  Read More

Dizem que tudo se ergue e cai pela liderança. Os líderes costumam dizer isso quando a organização vai bem — mas raramente quando ela está passando por dificuldades. Sei que temos a tendência de dar desculpas para as falhas ou fracassos na liderança. Queremos culpar os outros, a economia ou a cultura. Outros, no entanto, sentem um peso de culpa, uma sensação de fracasso, quando a sua organização es...  Read More

ऐसा कहा गया है कि सब कुछ नेतृत्व पर ही निर्भर करता है। नेता अक्सर ऐसा तब कहते हैं जब संगठन अच्छा चल रहा होता है—शायद ही कभी ऐसा तब कहा जाता है जब यह संघर्ष कर रहा हो। मुझे पता है कि हममें नेतृत्व में कमियों या विफलताओं के लिए बहाने बनाने की प्रवृत्ति होती है। हम दूसरों, अर्थव्यवस्था, या संस्कृति को दोष देना चाहते हैं। हालाँकि, फिर भी कुछ लोग अपनी संस्था के संघर्ष करने पर भारी अपराधबोध और विफलता का...  Read More

يُقال إن كل شيء ينهض ويسقط على القيادة. غالبًا ما يقول القادة ذلك عندما تسير المنظمة بشكل جيد، ونادرًا ما يقولون ذلك عندما تكافح. أعلم أن لدينا ميلًا لاختلاق الأعذار لأوجه القصور أو الإخفاقات في القيادة. نريد إلقاء اللوم على الآخرين، أو الاقتصاد، أو الثقافة. ومع ذلك، يشعر آخرون بعبء من الذنب، وإحساس بالفشل، عندما تكافح منظمتهم. وغالبًا ما يكون هذا هو الحال مع القساوسة. لا أريد اختلاق الأعذار، لكنن...  Read More

Se ha dicho que todo se levanta y cae con el liderazgo. Los líderes a menudo dicen esto cuando la organización va bien, pero rara vez lo dicen cuando está pasando por dificultades. Sé que tenemos la tendencia a buscar excusas para las deficiencias o fracasos en el liderazgo. Queremos culpar a otros, a la economía o a la cultura. Sin embargo, otros sienten una enorme carga de culpa, una sensación d...  Read More

S-a spus că totul se ridică și cade odată cu conducerea. Liderii spun adesea acest lucru atunci când organizației îi merge bine — rareori o spun când aceasta se confruntă cu dificultăți. Știu că avem tendința de a căuta scuze pentru neajunsurile sau eșecurile din conducere. Vrem să dăm vina pe alții, pe economie sau pe cultură. Alții, însă, simt o povară de vinovăție, un sentiment de eșec, atunci ...  Read More

"Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 'Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’" - Matthew 6:30-31It’s been said that 95% of the things we worry about never happen. Then why do we worry?One of the biggest problems we ...  Read More

“Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; but the just shall live by his faith.” - Habakkuk 2:4Sometimes, it is difficult to believe God for the future because of how we view the past. Our verse contrasts the proud with the person of faith. Those who have been saved by Christ have humbled themselves before God, confessed their sin and depended upon Christ alone for their salvation. The pr...  Read More

"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.” - 1 Chronicles 29:11We live in a busy and stressful society. It has been said that this is:The age of the half read page,And the quick hash and the mad dash.The bright night and...  Read More