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How do you spell success?

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What is ministry success? If you work harder, will you be more successful? Do you determine success by the numbers? **how how many people showed up Sunday **the size of the offering **baptisms **hands raised **hours spent counseling **number of congregants NOT in the psych ward Will these determine whether you are successful?

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Can you live up to expectations?

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Self Leadership Team Leadership Worship dream expectations failure success' We fear failing to meet expectations, because that is how we make ourselves okay. When we meet expectations, we are acceptable. Jesus didn’t meet expectations. […].

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So, is it about power?

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What if the idea of a ministry career is just so much huey – not because being in ministry is bad – because it isn’t, but because we aren’t successful until our life meets the picture in our head, and if the picture in our head is based on a power model instead of an empowerment model, we are climbing the wrong pyramid.

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What to do when life is sour

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I was homeschooling, working from home, and the middle two kids were tag-teaming, staying up all night. As you reframe your thought, you might feel the sun on your skin and realize how nice it feels. Now your thought isn’t “Ouch”, it is “Hmmmm, nice!” ” You have successfully reframed your thoughts.

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To Read or Not to Read???

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Along with writing and spending time with her family, she enjoys reading, traveling and playing drums for her church’s worship team. After years of successfully following the rodeo circuit, Travis’s one regret in life is having hurt Shay so badly. Hunter lives in Indiana with her husband and their three teenaged sons.