Your Spiritual DNA, Part 2: Your Unique Personality — and Why It Matters Second in a 5-part series that outlines the components making up your spiritual DNA Just as your cellular DNA provides a means of physical identification, your spiritual DNA distinguishes your inward identity. It’s made up of four components: your personality, your spiritual…
Read MoreYour Spiritual DNA, Part 1: How To Test Your Spiritual DNA — and Why To Do It First in a 5-part series that outlines the components making up your spiritual DNA The DNA molecule, found inside the nucleus of every human cell, directs what makes each person physically unique. From our hair color to our…
Read MoreWhich Hand You Write With … and Why It Matters A devotional about embracing your strengths Right-handed or left-handed? Just 1% of the population are equally adept at using both. The rest of us are more dexterous in one hand over the other, particularly in everyday tasks like signing our names or brushing our teeth.…
Read MoreWhat Difference Does It Make? Fourth in a 4-part series about finding and living out your life’s purpose The search for a meaningful life leads God’s people on a journey. We want to know where we fit in God’s story … or if we even fit at all. That’s why Christians wrestle with their purpose…
Read MoreWhat Should I Do? Third in a 4-part series about finding and living out your life’s purpose In that search for meaningful lives, one of the first questions people ask is, “Why am I here?” But not too far behind comes a second one: “What should I do?” Tasks, assignments, purpose – name it what…
Read MoreHow Australia’s Arrow Leadership Grows Servants and Their Teams Not long after Rev. Julian Dunham became Arrow Leadership’s program director, he completed a Leading From Your Strengths profile during coaching training with Ministry Insights, sponsored by Willow Creek Australia. He’d set out to be better able to equip the emerging leaders his ministry serves, but…
Read MoreWhy Am I Here? Second in a 4-part series about finding and living out your life’s purpose The next time you’re waiting in line at the grocery store, take a look at the people around you. Three out of the four of them yearn for their life to have significance, says pollster George Barna. His…
Read MoreIs This As Good As It Gets? First in a 4-part series about finding and living out your life’s purpose People hunger for their lives to have meaning … and we believe we can make a difference. 97% of Americans who are self-identified as religiously active believe they have the ability to impact their community…
Read MoreIndividuality or Conformity: Must You Choose? While human beings may embrace individuality – qualities that distinguish one person from another – we may fear its ramifications. Our instinct is to conform. “Humans have a fundamental need to belong, just as we have needs for food and water,” says C. Nathan DeWall, Ph.D., a psychologist at…
Read MoreSuccessful Staffing Through Coaching: Matchmaking With a Purpose Chris, a young pastor, had been hired to manage a new campus for a multi-site mega-church congregation. Yet even as he faithfully sought to put the church leadership’s strategy into place, Chris could feel his pioneering strengths being squelched. His frustration mounted. Christian life coach Deb…
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