Hello everyone! I wanted to share this video for everyone who wasn’t able to make it to our session today. We continued our discussion from “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” by Mark Batterson. We discussed that playing it safe is risky and this video ties in with that perfectly.

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This past Thursday we spent an hour discussing burnout and some strategies to help avoid or at least cut down on burnout. Rather than bring in an “expert” to share, we all delved into our experiences and knowledge to arrive at some pretty solid suggestions.
First of all, we need to take time to withdraw and […]

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This past Thursday Chris Ward, student ministries director at Chapel Hill Fellowship, spoke to us about learnability.
To start off, he talked about three different types of learning: fact learning, which is just the basic retention of facts; transformative learning, where something stirs within you, taking time to change you - it’s like marinating steak, with […]

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Last Thursday Laurie shared with us the concept of balcony people vs. basement people. Balcony people are those individuals who encourage and affirm us while basement people are those individuals who drag us down through discouragement and unconstructive criticism.
Balcony people are more than just encouragers; they are the individuals who see who we are in […]

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We all have something to say. Whether we represent our respective organization, church, business or ourselves, we have some message that we want to convey to the world. If we’re going to be effective, we have to communicate clearly.
Thursday’s session discussed what clear communication looks like. Kirk Longhofer did a great job, describing the value […]

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Last week, Matt Shepherd shared the idea of permission to speak. We looked at several dimensions – permission from God and permission from those to whom we are speaking.
This idea of permission to speak isn’t radical, but it’s something we must be mindful of. We’re operating in a new social and cultural context where permission […]

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