By: Shermika Harvey on September 20, 2018
CTRL, ATL, DELETE: CEREBRUM REBOOT Disclaimer: The text below is not written by, nor or for professional informational use for neuroscience and or computer science application. Though such terminology is included, it is also the metaphoric view of this writer’s approach to reprogramming the supercomputer of the human body, in particular, the cerebrum functions of…
By: Jay Forseth on September 19, 2018
Judith Glaser’s Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results reminded me of another famous leadership book by Dale Carnegie titled, How To Win Friends and Influence Others. Both are powerfully written, have obvious appeal in the marketplace, and are easily applicable to improving one’s own leadership. If I would have read this book 14…
By: Jennifer Williamson on September 19, 2018
I’d much rather write about my project than my person, but the truth is they are inextricably linked. My heart for missionary effectiveness and sustainability is driven by personal experiences; consequently, as I do the research and delve deeply into that topic, I am forced to examine myself and consider where my own ministries are…
By: Mike on September 18, 2018
Judith Glaser’s Conversational Intelligence is an innovative do-it-yourself communication guide that helps leaders learn how to trust others and become more effective. Glaser uses conversational intelligence (CI) lessons from neuroscience to advance three conversation principles regarding exchanging information, controlling power and influence, and co-creating solutions. I plan to focus on Glaser’s TRUST and FORCES acronyms…
By: Shawn Hart on September 15, 2018
I had to do a word search to confirm my suspicions after this week’s reading; the fact I found was that neither God, Jesus, the church, or Christianity were mentioned a single time in this reading. Though normally I might voice my objection to this, being this is an evangelism course, instead, I found this…
By: Shermika Harvey on September 15, 2018
Time is Now. Voices of the Generation For the Cause “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.” ― William Faulkner[1] For centuries, young people proclaimed the voice of the generation…
By: Tammy Dunahoo on September 14, 2018
Whether a non-profit organization, an emerging nation, or any people group there seems to be a collective soul that forms, and through the environments, experiences, and influences that soul is formed in, an identity emerges. I was reminded of this emergence and learned more of the circumstances and factors that play into it as I…
By: Greg on September 14, 2018
Walking into the cold, dirty, and dingy classroom, I laughed at the idea that I was there to be the art teacher. Having no intrinsic artistic abilities I found it odd that I was chosen to be the creative teacher for migrant children. This migrant children’s center discovered that not only should we teach English,…
By: Mary Mims on September 13, 2018
If you dance to the music, don’t you know you have to pay to the piper, is a question asked in an old song. This song references the story of the pied piper who gets rid of rats in a town by playing on a flute. As the story goes, once the rats are gone,…
By: Jake Dean-Hill on September 13, 2018
Insight Out, by Tina Seelig, was a fascinating book about how we get from imagination to entrepreneurship. She claims that her goal is “to bring together what we know about creativity with what we know about entrepreneurship so that we can define, learn, teach, and practice these skills in a rigorous and reproducible manner.”[1] Her…
By: Harry Fritzenschaft on September 13, 2018
I was visiting with my mother on the phone the other day and trying to describe the LGP track of our DMin program. Typically, most people are interested and amazed at our international advance locations. When I told my mother that Gloria (my wife) and I would be leaving for Hong Kong on September…
By: Trisha Welstad on September 13, 2018
I meet with a lot of people who feel stuck in some way. Most of these people are young and have much of their lives ahead of them, yet that is often the problem. They sense there is a specific path they must forge but they don’t know how to get to it. Or they…
By: Jay Forseth on September 13, 2018
Before I get to Tina Seelig’s Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World, I again would like to thank all of LGP8 for your open responses to my Blog from last week regarding the role of women in ministry. Your written words were greatly appreciated, but even deeper, your willingness to let me…
By: Nancy VanderRoest on September 13, 2018
History is not my forte, so I was not thrilled to see the book by Tsang on the list of reading for this term. I could think of more exciting things to do than read about the “Modern History of Hong Kong,” such as doing my dishes or dusting my house! But, I realized while…
By: Dan Kreiss on September 13, 2018
What is to be taken from a book largely about entrepreneurial leadership in a program dedicated to the development of leadership for the Church? Has the Church not already adopted more of a business mindset thus diminishing the role of the Spirit in guiding it to accomplish the desires of God? It might be easy…
By: Jason Turbeville on September 13, 2018
While I was reading this weeks book, Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World by Tina Seelig, I was struggling with the fact that I have never been very creative. In fact, it is one of the hardest parts of my job as a pastor. Then in the introduction I read…
By: Mark Petersen on September 13, 2018
Do you feel stuck or trapped by overwhelming need in your ministry context? Ministry issues are deep, painful, and complex, and we often wonder how we can continue creatively serving to nurture thriving local communities. Frequently we undertake brainstorming sessions with key stakeholders, but those sparks of inspiration rarely seem to transform into meaningful change.…
By: Jean Ollis on September 13, 2018
“Your future is determined by how you dance in the present”.[1] It took me awhile to find the perfect dancing photo. But I did! This dancer is relaxed, swinging her hair, following the rhythm of the music without displaying perfect form and presentation. In my mind she is having a blast. She’s taking a risk, and…
By: Andrea Lathrop on September 13, 2018
A Modern History of Hong Kong was an excellent read on the issues and complexities that have contributed to making Hong Kong what it is today. Obviously there is an overwhelming amount of content to digest in this book but I kept noticing throughout Hong Kong’s history a thread of oppression and superiority by outsiders.…
By: John Muhanji on September 13, 2018
King Solomon in his wisdom said that “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the son.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9) This is a true statement from King Solomon. The book in question, “A Modern History of Hong Kong” by Steve Tsang speaks volume about personal…
