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Leading Healthy Change Part 6
by Cary Schmidt | Feb 10, 2017
Leadership is absolutely a team thing. Merely having a title and an office doesn’t make you a leader. This is especially true if you are attempting to bring about renewing, reviving kinds of change.
Leading Healthy Change Part 5
by Cary Schmidt | Jan 24, 2017
The Apostle Paul was a great communicator, and it’s worthy to note how God used Paul to communicate, especially regarding “change.”
The Most Powerful “Thrive Factor” for a New Year
by Cary Schmidt | Jan 4, 2017
Have you considered recently the power of attitude—how much our attitude toward life and circumstances determines so many of our outcomes? Attitude determines whether I see an obligation or an opportunity…
Leading Healthy Change Part 4
by Cary Schmidt | Dec 29, 2016
In this post, I want to regress a bit and build on the point of building healthy relationships—as this is the foundation of everything else you do in ministry…
Christmas Invites Us to Wait…
by Cary Schmidt | Dec 24, 2016
All over the world young hearts are anxious! Do you remember that feeling? Do you remember being taunted by those wrapped packages…
Leading Healthy Change Part 3
by Cary Schmidt | Dec 16, 2016
Over the past four years, we’ve had a front row seat in seeing God revive and renew His church. It’s been a wonderful journey of growing in God’s grace and letting the gospel run freely.
Take On Winter Like a Boss!
by Cary Schmidt | Dec 10, 2016
Do gray days ever get into your head? Maybe they do and you never thought about it. Maybe the gray days impact you emotionally in ways that never occurred to you.
10 Ways to Strengthen Your Church This Christmas!
by Cary Schmidt | Dec 5, 2016
Here are ten simple ways that you could greatly strengthen your church this season and in the new year…
Leading Healthy Change Part 2
by Cary Schmidt | Nov 17, 2016
If God has called you to lead, He has called you to lead change. The two are inseparable. No, you won’t ever feel adequate—which, in God’s economy is a good thing.
My Post-Election Considerations
by Cary Schmidt | Nov 9, 2016
The morning after a long night of election results, I confess, my heart is neither more or less joyful than it was the day before. The source of my hope remains in Jesus and the gospel.
10 Election Week Resolutions for Bible-Believers
by Cary Schmidt | Nov 4, 2016
When God allows the false hope of people to be shaken and exposed as “thin ice,” it is then that Christians must courageously speak truth…
Leading Healthy Change Part 1
by Cary Schmidt | Nov 3, 2016
As a leader, should you lead change? Can you effectively lead change? Do you see things that need to change?
Keeping Sanity in an Insane Election Season
by Cary Schmidt | Oct 19, 2016
In Luke 21, Jesus taught His disciples how to keep their sanity in the midst of cultural and societal upheaval. Would you like to keep yours? Me too! Here’s how…
Monday Encouragement for Ministry Friends
by Cary Schmidt | Oct 17, 2016
Any more, I see a lot of articles about pastors resigning. Then I see a lot of articles about how hard ministry is, how burdened ministers are…
Losing Our "Learned Helplessness"
by Cary Schmidt | Sep 28, 2016
Sometimes God allows discomfort in our lives because He’s removing a great burden and replacing it with a greater blessing. Sometimes it’s possible for us to continue bearing up under pressures…