by Grady King: The following is in light of 15-20 hours of conversations, emails, texts, and video conferences with church leaders this past week—male and female. Without exception, lack of spiritual leadership, vision, courage, and poor processes are common topics. I am blessed to serve in HOPE Network listening, praying, encouraging, mentoring, guiding, sharing resources, […]
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by Grady King – A friend of mine recently reminded me that good leaders are weight bearers. The phrase, “weight bearers” conjures up carrying a load, bearing burdens, being responsible. Inherent to all of this is anxiety. No church rejected Paul more than the Corinthian church. Paul, however, yearned for them to be devoted to […]
Authors : Grady King
Grady D. King – Last week I had breakfast with good, long term friend in ministry. He got me through a very difficult season in my young preaching life over thirty years ago. As we sat down at the restaurant I asked him, “How are you? One word, “Tired!” He asked the same of me. […]
Authors : Grady King
by Lynn Anderson Ted moves like an athlete and looks like one too. He is usually confident and assertive. But today, sitting in front of the counselor he seems different. Ted is a new Christian and the father of sons four and seven and he has hit a wall. “I don’t really know what a […]
Authors : Lynn Anderson
Tags : Mentoring
by Grady King “Could we have lunch together soon? A friend of mine recommended I get with you and talk about preaching. Specifically, how do I know if God is calling me to preach?” This is how the email began. We did meet and continue to consider his question. In the conversation, which was less […]
Authors : Grady King
by Jim Martin I was a young minister who was eager, passionate, and committed to ministry. I was also keeping a counseling schedule that was intense and demanded long hours. I was seeing people not only from our congregation, but also from other congregations in our community. Afternoons were often difficult and emotionally raw listening […]
Authors : General, Jim Martin
Tags : Mentoring
by Lynn Anderson Ted moves like an athlete and looks like one too. He is usually confident and assertive. But today, sitting in front of the counselor he seems different. Ted is a new Christian and the father of sons four and seven and he has hit a wall. “I don’t really know what a […]
Authors : Lynn Anderson
Tags : Mentoring
by Lynn Anderson A friend tells me that a visitor to his church remarked after a couple of encounters with Jake, “So you say that guy Jake has been pretty visible in your church for a long time? Here every time the doors are opened? A deacon! Well, if Jake is an example of what […]
Authors : General, Lynn Anderson
Tags : Mentoring
By Jim Martin Not long ago I was on the Interstate and glanced at the car on my right. The driver had an intense look on her face. She was staring at her phone. She was texting. Think about this. She is driving 75 miles per hour and texting! Some say that you are 23 […]
Authors : Jim Martin
Tags : Mentoring, Shepherds/Elders
by Grady & Karen King If We Could Have a Do-Over with our Children If you could have a do-over in raising our children what would you do differently? I posed this question to my wife recently while thinking about faith development, ministry and several younger ministers I know. Being raised as a “PK” (preachers […]
Authors : Grady King
Tags : Leadership Encouragement, Mentoring
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