Category - Leadership

Why I Signed My Name On The Nashville Statement

August 30, 2017
dougleslie
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Culture, Leadership
bible, chrsitanity, LGBT, marriage, nashville, sex, statement

There have been many social media posts over the last day or two regarding the Nashville Statement. For those who are not up to speed, the statement was created by The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, was endorsed by a coalition of scholars, pastors, and other leaders, and is comprised of 14 affirmations[…]

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Dangers Of Riding The Tide

I recently was in a meeting with a church listening to their reluctance of trying to raise money for a new building. As we discussed the culture of the church and why they were so reluctant, it turned out it was due to right motives – they didn’t want to try and be “big”[…]

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Are We Producing Cymbalic Fruit?

I have been working on a manuscript for a while now about my view on the modern western church. I was reading over the first four chapters again the other day just to see if I really wanted to pursue it any further. After all it may have been an exercise to get something off[…]

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Leadership Is More Than A Greasy Pole

SOLITUDE AND LEADERSHIP: If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts Consider these paragraphs: “So what I saw around me were great kids who had been trained to be world-class hoop jumpers. Any goal you set them, they could achieve. Any test you gave them, they could pass with flying[…]

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Learning Leadership in Prose

February 12, 2016
dougleslie
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Leadership

I am thankful to leadership blogger and consultant, Paul Sohn for bringing my attention back to this amazing piece written by Rudyard Kipling. I hold much admiration for those that write poetry well. For those of you who do not, do not let the “poem” label scare you away. There is much to learn from[…]

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