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10 Qualities of Influential Christians

lisaauthor2026-08-21T15:55:30+00:00

by Amber Mann Riggs All Christians have the capacity to influence the people around us to live in such a way that reflects Jesus’ heart for the world. It doesn’t matter how wide your circle of influence is – how many friends, kids, Facebook acquaintances, or twitter followers you have, how large your church or community is, or how many work associates you have. What matters is the potential for depth in your realms of influence. When it comes to depth of influence, even though all Christians are re-created as leaders, there is a significant difference between passive leaders and active leaders: active leaders [...]

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4 Ways Active Listening Increases Your Influence

lisaauthor2026-08-21T15:55:32+00:00

by Caitlin Meadows Everyone wants a boss who is an active listener. These sorts are a rare commodity, but when you come by one you feel like you’ve hit the career jackpot. The active listening boss is one who invites conversation. He asks for constructive feedback. She wants to know your ideas. He cares about your personal life. She puts away her devices when you approach her. A boss like this makes you feel respected and valued. He motivates you to do your job well simply by taking the time and putting in the effort to understand what you communicate. This [...]

4 Ways Active Listening Increases Your Influencelisaauthor2026-08-21T15:55:32+00:00

Re-Created to Meet a Need: Knowing When to Jump In

lisaauthor2026-08-24T20:32:33+00:00

by Caitlin Meadows I like when I can meet another person’s need. This, of course, is not a personality trait unique to me. In fact, I’d be surprised to learn of a person who doesn’t like to be needed. Like little children who are eager to be their parents’ helper, adults feel satisfaction when we can serve in even the smallest of capacities. My husband is one of six children, four of which are his sisters. Each sister pitches in when we have family meals together at his parents’ house, often with both prep and clean up. I noticed this early [...]

Re-Created to Meet a Need: Knowing When to Jump Inlisaauthor2026-08-24T20:32:33+00:00

Leading and Managing: What’s The Difference?

lisaauthor2026-08-24T20:33:28+00:00

by Chip Hinds (Excerpt borrowed with permission from the Southwest District Superintendent’s Blog) Are you acting in the roles of leadership and/or management? Last week, in discussion with SWD HOPE Ministry Co-Director David Burrell, we remarked to one another how launching into a project, even in turbulent circumstances when the way was still being charted, was not a problem for either one of us. He remarked jokingly, “Yes, that is us sometimes, ‘fire … ready … aim.’” I admire David Burrell and Martin Ramirez, also Co-Director of SWD HOPE Ministry, because of what they are doing “outside the four walls of [...]

Leading and Managing: What’s The Difference?lisaauthor2026-08-24T20:33:28+00:00

Acts of Service Aren’t Enough, Thankfully

lisaauthor2026-08-24T20:33:29+00:00

by Caitlin Meadows Growing up, my elementary school implemented a merit system. Every staff member carried around little yellow pieces of paper called “bobcat awards” that motivated students to voluntarily complete acts of service. When a student had collected enough, he or she earned a lunch period spent in the “bobcat room” (the band room) complete with a special dessert treat and rated G music playing from a boombox. The best part about earning this reward? The status. Since the bobcat room was right off of the cafeteria, these well-behaved, honored students got to walk right on past all of their [...]

Acts of Service Aren’t Enough, Thankfullylisaauthor2026-08-24T20:33:29+00:00

Working Through a Crisis

lisaauthor2026-08-24T20:31:37+00:00

by Janna Wiley Working from home can be something alien to most of us. Adapting to the changes in our routines and lifestyle can be a bit of a shock to us both mentally and physically. As humans, we can adapt to changes as best as we can. After some suggestions from friends and family members, we can start creating our new normal with working from home, but why are we still down? Why am I still tired? Why am I still lingering in the past? Most of us, maybe, have never worked through a crisis. Sometimes a “crisis” can extend [...]

Working Through a Crisislisaauthor2026-08-24T20:31:37+00:00

How Do We Foster Mental Wellness Among Christian Leaders? Part 3

lisaauthor2026-08-24T20:32:39+00:00

by Jacquelyn Scott There are various ways that all of us, including our international brethren, can go about implementing plans of action to promote mental wellness among our congregations: Leadership Assessment, Care and Accountability 1. Every leader who desires to do so can take some form of self-assessment evaluation, such as the one found in The Emotionally Healthy Leader.[1] This would pave the way for each of them to determine if there are areas in their lives that could benefit from special attention. But before that, they should take the time and effort to seek God’s counsel, not just a few [...]

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Mental Health and the Church: S.O.S

lisaauthor2026-08-24T20:32:42+00:00

by Jacquelyn Scott Mental Health and the Church: Save Our Slighted This is an urgent call to all leaders within the General Conference of the Church of God (Seventh Day). There is a segment of our brethren (in, and outside of our denomination) that is being underserved, and if we are to call ourselves Christians, we must make an immediate, unified effort to bring them back into the fold. Those of whom I speak are the ones who have left the church, not because of disagreements with policy or doctrine, but because of the way they were treated when they were [...]

Mental Health and the Church: S.O.Slisaauthor2026-08-24T20:32:42+00:00

Kurt Lang’s Tips for Working from Home

lisaauthor2026-08-24T20:31:38+00:00

by Kurt Lang Since this pandemic finds many of us working from home, Artios thought you might enjoy Kurt’s Tips for Working from Home to either help you in your work-from-home efforts or to give you some comic relief. Kurt’s Tips for Working from Home I. a. Set aside some regular hours each day that you can commit to focusing on your job. b. Be flexible and work different hours each day so you can work around other duties/jobs/household tasks that arise. II. a. Create an office space with all your work essentials so that you have consistency and [...]

Kurt Lang’s Tips for Working from Homelisaauthor2026-08-24T20:31:38+00:00

5 Quick Tips for Working from Home

lisaauthor2026-08-24T20:31:39+00:00

by Israel Steinmetz I don’t currently work at home, but I have at various times over the past ten years as an employee of Artios Christian College. Working from home comes with a host of unique challenges and opportunities. For many people, they’re encountering this unique situation for the first time recently as a result of COVID-19. Here are 5 quick tips for working from home that have helped me as I’ve worked from home: Tip #1 – Carve out space I’ve been in full-time ministry for over fifteen years. Ministry is one of those jobs that tends to come home with [...]

5 Quick Tips for Working from Homelisaauthor2026-08-24T20:31:39+00:00

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