By: Pam Lau on November 28, 2023
Last year while I was working on our biblical foundations and expertise paper for class, I chose to research the life and leadership of Caleb, from the well-known story of Joshua in the book of Numbers. As you can imagine, finding scholarly research on the often overlooked Caleb was not as easy as I’d hoped.…
By: Russell Chun on November 28, 2023
Зачем изучать лидерство? – Zachem izuchat’ liderstvo? Why study Leadership? (Russian) Part 1: What my peers are saying. Part 2: Highlights from Northouse. Part 3: Epilogue Part 1: What my peers are saying. John Fehlan, says, “Perhaps leadership IS influence and the Christian Leadership industry got us all to buy their stuff… I then…
By: Kim Sanford on November 28, 2023
We are 15 or so months into our doctoral journey, and this week’s reading may be the first book that feels like a classic textbook. Leadership is a notoriously slippery concept to pin down, but Peter Northouse’s Leadership: Theory and Practice provides a helpful definition: “Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group…
By: John Fehlen on November 27, 2023
I’ve gone through a number of “leadership phases” in my 52 years of living and serving Jesus’ Church. Each season was marked by a Christian author/speaker and the volumes of work they would produce that impacted me, and so many others like me. Although written in 1967, I remember when “Spiritual Leadership” by J. Oswald…
By: Jennifer Vernam on November 27, 2023
Familiar Territory? I was excited to see that we had Leadership: Theory and Practice[1] on our reading list this term. I will be candid: I was excited to have a book I had already read because it meant I had less reading to do. This was territory I had already covered, so “I should be…
By: Travis Vaughn on November 27, 2023
Two topics routinely come up in conversations with leaders in some of my circles. One is the subject of leadership and management. A second topic is the situational leadership approach, illustrated by Ken Blachard in a model “called the Situational Leadership II (SLII) model.”[1] Peter Northouse addresses both of these subjects in Leadership: Theory and…
By: Jana Dluehosh on November 18, 2023
al·che·my /ˈalkəmē/ Noun The medieval forerunner of chemistry based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir. A seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.[1] I love this word, so much, and it sums up the realm in…
By: Dinka Utomo on November 17, 2023
If we want to understand the unconscious —if we want to make it our friend and ally— …
By: Todd E Henley on November 16, 2023
I’ll never forget my very first client who was a former pastor. During our first session he asked, “Are you going to be using God’s word in our sessions?” I allowed his question to sink in with a five second pause and responded, “Help me to understand something?” Me: Did you preach God’s word every…
By: Jenny Dooley on November 16, 2023
Unsettling Experiences I had an unsettling experience as a social work intern in the department of child psychiatry at a major children’s hospital. In supervision a case was discussed in which the family of a child in treatment had become Christian. Over the course of therapy it was noted that great improvements had been made…
By: Mathieu Yuill on November 16, 2023
The transformation of my business, Coleraine Communications, into Leading With Nice represents a journey to a transformative process. This shift aligns closely with the wisdom found in Daniel Liebermans Spellbound and the leadership principles discussed in Simon Walker’s The Undefended Leader. This transformation goes beyond rebranding; it reflects a dedication to principles such as honesty,…
By: Adam Harris on November 16, 2023
When you grow up in a Charismatic, Pentecostal country church you get to hear stories about miracles, angels, demons, possessions, dreams, visions, words of knowledge (knowing things about people you should not know), prophecies, etc. You even find yourself experiencing some things that you can’t explain. Some of my experiences left me forever changed. Books…
By: John Fehlen on November 16, 2023
I was never allowed to watch The Smurfs. You see, growing up in Wisconsin as a Catholic, and then becoming a Pentecostal in a pretty legalistic home, there were so many cartoons, daytime dramas, bedtime network shows, and movies that my parents, pastors and youth pastors deemed to be “off limits!” Don’t even get me…
By: Esther Edwards on November 15, 2023
As I took my first master’s level coaching course, one of my key learning takeaways was from the one of the premier coach training books “Co-Active Coaching” by Kimsey-House, et al.[1] As the book defined the three levels of listening, I was intrigued by Level 3 – Global Listening. Level 1 Listening is where one…
By: Cathy Glei on November 15, 2023
It was a blistery, cold Sunday afternoon. I was resting at home with my youngest daughter, Abigail, an infant at the time, while my husband took our other two daughters sledding with some friends of ours. I was awakened from an afternoon nap when I heard someone yelling from our answering machine, “Cat, I’m on…
By: Russell Chun on November 15, 2023
超越, Chāoyuè = Transcendence, Chinese Part 1 What my peers are saying, Ying and Yang revisited. Part 2 Freud, Jung and Lieberman Part 3 DMN revisited & Transcendence. Part 4 Epilogue…Oswald Chambers Part 1 What my peers are saying, Ying and Yang revisited. In many of the cohorts blogposts (all written very well) I sensed…
By: Pam Lau on November 14, 2023
A few weeks ago, my husband, Brad, and I had dinner with a friend who moved out of state during the Pandemic. Mark sat across the table from us seemingly more at peace than the last time we saw him. He caught us up on his new job, his wife and three children. Because I…
By: Kally Elliott on November 14, 2023
“Now, go to bed and let your brain work on it while you’re asleep.” My mom frequently said this to me when I was a child practicing a new song on the piano. I would roll my eyes, believing she was just trying to get me to go to bed for the night, but she…
By: Tim Clark on November 14, 2023
The Sci-Fi novelist Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”[1] I know that quote because it’s provided the seed for many of my favorite stories, from superhero movies like Thor and Dr. Strange, to Sci-Fi shows like Star Trek, to mysteries like Sherlock Holmes, to just about anything having…
By: Jonita Fair-Payton on November 14, 2023
Scary Start The title, the cover art and the first few lines made me a bit skeptical about what I was to read. I was genuinely confused and had to work through a few things before opening the book. First let’s talk about the title. Spellbound, sounds creepy, spooky, and instantly brought the image of…
