The Need for Influence- The Steps to Gaining It

The Need for Influence- The Steps to Gaining It

In this episode John and Laura discuss the fact that leadership is much more about interpersonal influence than about the position held in the organization.  They break down a 2 x 2 diagram that shows the impact of moving from the lower left quadrant where one...
The Need for Influence- The Steps to Gaining It

The Role is Not the Reward

Throughout the span of our lives, God gives us many roles to play.  In this podcast episode, John and Laura discuss John’s transition from serving as the President of Leadership Edge to welcoming and working under the new President Todd...
The Need for Influence- The Steps to Gaining It

What God is Doing in Us Everyday Part Two

Part two continues the previous conversation of how God works in the lives of believers to grow us to become more like Him, John points out that for us to rightly understand what it means to be in relationship with God we have to understand what He is doing in our...
The Need for Influence- The Steps to Gaining It

What God is Doing in Us Every Day

Every day that we live, once we come to faith in Christ, God is building sanctification in us. Sanctifying us is one of the promises – one the commitments that He has made to us. For us to rightly understand what it means to be in relationship with God we have...
The Need for Influence- The Steps to Gaining It

Humility the Antidote to Pride

To grow us in humility is part of the relentless commitment of God as part of His sanctification of us. John proclaims that we have to understand the wonderfulness of that! We tend to think that humbling means to hurt us or to shame us but really the synonym for...
Today is Mine

Today is Mine

This blog post is an excerpt from Longings Toward a God-Centered Life: Meditations on Great Thoughts and Passages by John Hawkins.1 Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future—I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I...