The Fallout: What Corrupt Motive Does to the People Being Led
The People We Have Not Yet Talked About For six articles, this series has focused on the leader. We have traced the God who weighs…
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The Danger of Hypocrisy: What Ananias and Sapphira Teach Us About Lying to God
This article is adapted from Sermon 12 in our forty-week expository journey through the Book of Acts. There is a story in the Bible that…
The Platform and The Corner Office: How the Modern Age Multiplies the Motive Trap
The Same Soul, Amplified Everything we have traced in this series so far—the God who weighs motives, the Son whose motive was pure, the six…
The Pastorals Reread: Why the Elder Qualifications Are a Motive Document
The Lists We Think We Know If you have spent any time in church leadership—serving on an elder board, sitting through an ordination interview, participating…
Six Shadows and Five Steady Flames: Biblical Portraits of Failed and Faithful Motive
The Same Story, Told Eleven Times The previous articles in this series have established two things. First, God weighs the motives of leaders—He always has,…
The Motive of the Son: Jesus as the Archetype of Perfectly Motivated Leadership
The Only Motive That Ever Registered as Pure In the last article, we traced the biblical claim that God weighs the motives of leaders—from Hagar’s…
The God Who Weighs the Spirits: A Biblical Theology of Divine Motive-Examination
The Woman No One Was Looking For She was not a leader. She held no title, occupied no office, sat on no council. She was…
Before Character, Motive: Why the Leadership Conversation Needs a Deeper Starting Point
The Sleepless Question I work for a company called ProVia, and ProVia invests heavily in leadership training—from the top down, deliberately, and with real conviction.…
In the Name of Jesus: Power for Healing and Witness
Have you ever stood in front of someone who was hurting and felt completely helpless? Maybe a friend was going through something painful and you…
When Love Transforms Everything: A Study in Reconciliation from Paul’s Letter to Philemon
The Letter Nobody Reads If I were to ask you to name the shortest book of the New Testament, many of you would probably struggle…