calling
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On International Women’s Day, Rise Like a Deborah
For International Women’s Day, I’ve been mulling over the life of Deborah, a prophetess who led the nation of Israel during its “Wild West” period known as the time of the judges. Like another notable prophetess, Miriam (see Exodus 15:20), Deborah was gifted in Spirit-inspired song. In fact, all of Judges 5 is a truth-telling,…
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How To Overcome Obstacles to Your Calling: Interview with Dr. Angie Ward, part II
Happy Book Launch Day to Dr. Angie Ward, who gave us warm, wise advice last week on how to embrace God’s calling in our lives. No surprise, I’m recommending I Am a Leader: When Women Discover the Joy of Their Calling to everybody–Go Get This Book! But until you can head to the store or…
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Called to Be a Leader: Interview with Dr. Angie Ward, part I
“The question is not WHETHER you have influence. The questions are WHERE do you have influence, and HOW are you going to use that influence to bring honor and glory to God?” That statement from Dr. Angie Ward in I Am A Leader: When Women Discover the Joy of Their Calling jolted me from my…
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What If Your Calling to Go Forward Means Going Back?
Go. Go fast. Go hard. Go far. Just go. That’s the message of our culture, isn’t it? You want to be labelled a leader? Then, you better race to the top, push all the boundaries, blaze all the trails. Even in our churches, we sometimes double-down on that one word in the Matt 28:19-20 great…
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Reading Roundup: Get Growing in Leadership, Prayer, and Faith
If you read last week’s post, you know we’ve started a series on finding and fulfilling our callings, with a special emphasis on the how God equips women to live on purpose for Him. With that in mind, I’ve got three resources in this quarter’s Reading Roundup to help you pursue your goals this new…
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Wise Women, Leading Ladies, and What They Teach Us about Calling
Calling is where your deep gladness and the world’s deep need meet. My friend, leadership expert Angie Ward, branded this Frederick Buechner quote onto my brain during a conversation on all things women and calling. For Angie, the idea of deep gladness answering deep need encapsulates the theme of her upcoming book, I Am a…
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Don’t Quit Your Day Job
In March 2017, I celebrated the release of New Woman, New Clothes: Outfit Your Soul to Live, Lead, Love by delivering the closing message for a women’s Bible study. We focused on what it means to find purpose in life and jokingly adopted the phrase, “Don’t quit your day job,” as a reminder that God…