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Leadership Essentials: The Next Generation Leader

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-09-07T14:10:15-06:00

by Artios Magazine Have you ever read seven books in just five weeks? Some of you avid readers out there are saying “Yes, easily!” The other affirmative responses are coming from former students of Artios Christian College‘s introductory course, LEA111 (Essentials of Vibrant Leadership). Over the five weeks of this course, students are required to read seven different books all on Christian leadership! Thankfully, each book is compelling and insightful making the reading enjoyable. One of these assigned books is Andy Stanley’s Next Generation Leader: 5 Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future. This particular book comes with an essay assignment in [...]

Leadership Essentials: The Next Generation LeaderLisa Harp Hinds2023-09-07T14:10:15-06:00

Is Relational Leadership That Big of a Deal?

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-09-07T13:57:55-06:00

by Caitlin Meadows Standing in my next class’ doorway to hide from the wind, I first interacted with someone who would leave a tremendous impact on my life. As a senior in high school I rarely interacted with the freshman. However, since our private Christian school was small and I’m a people watcher, I was aware of them. Little freshman Anna was always smiling. She’d often come into the office during my T.A. period and have all the office staff laughing as she waited for a band-aid or something one of her teacher’s needed. At 14 years old, she was already [...]

Is Relational Leadership That Big of a Deal?Lisa Harp Hinds2023-09-07T13:57:55-06:00

Myths of Personality and Leadership

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-09-07T13:50:57-06:00

by Mary Meadows Our lives are profoundly shaped by personality. It is the driving force behind our habits, social interactions, and inner psychology. Merriam-Webster defines personality as “the complex characteristics that distinguishes an individual or a nation or a group; especially: the totality of an individual’s behavioral and emotional characteristics.” Personality defines us emotionally, psychologically, and even physically. Personality is “reflected in our brain pathways, neurotransmitters, and remote corners of our nervous system.”¹ In her book Quiet, Susan Cain writes “Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality—the ‘north [...]

Myths of Personality and LeadershipLisa Harp Hinds2023-09-07T13:50:57-06:00

Preaching—What’s the Point?

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-09-05T14:43:42-06:00

by Loren Gjesdal There are an estimated 380,000 churches in the United States. In the vast majority of these churches, the pulpit and the sermon take center stage (literally) in each week’s service. If each sermon were an average of just 30 minutes, that’s a whopping 190,000 hours of preaching in the United States each week! Add mid-week services and the availability of all this preaching online, and it might be time to ask, what are we to do with all these messages? What is the point of all this preaching? Is the point to teach the Word to God’s people? [...]

Preaching—What’s the Point?Lisa Harp Hinds2023-09-05T14:43:42-06:00

Quiet Influence: 6 Tips for the Introverted Leader

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:34:01-06:00

by Mary Meadows Hi, my name is Mary, and I am an introvert. I am also a leader. If you had asked me what leadership meant 5 years ago, I might have glanced up from a book and said that leaders are people “in charge” who tell others what to do. At this point, if our conversation wasn’t already over, I would have reopened my book and returned to the fictional world between its pages. What is Leadership? My definition of leadership has since gone through a radical change. It began when I took some extra credit leadership courses in college. [...]

Quiet Influence: 6 Tips for the Introverted LeaderLisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:34:01-06:00

Resonant Leadership: 6 Tips for the Extroverted Leader

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:41:10-06:00

by Mary Meadows Our culture is obsessed with extroverts. These friendly, sociable, outgoing people are idealized in the morning news, our social media feeds, and our work places. This extroverted ideal is especially prevalent in leadership. Because extroverts crave external stimulation, they are often looked to as natural leaders. Researchers estimate that 50 to 74 percent of the U.S. population is extroverted.¹ Other studies have shown that an astounding 96 percent of leaders and managers report being extroverted!² We’ve already established that leadership is not dependent on personality. Through Christ we have all been recreated to be leaders, and we are [...]

Resonant Leadership: 6 Tips for the Extroverted LeaderLisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:41:10-06:00

12 Ways to Reduce Your Leadership Impact

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:11:11-06:00

by Chip Hinds My intention is to become a vibrant leader as a vibrant member of a vibrant church. To do this requires the practice of the best leadership principles. I’ve often learned the most important leadership principles through the experience of doing the wrong things. I’d like to share some of those lessons I’ve learned the hard way. So, if you want to reduce your leadership impact, here are twelve ways to do it.[ref]Just for the sake of clarity: this list outlines what NOT to do. It is a parody of how a vibrant 21st Christian should really lead. C. [...]

12 Ways to Reduce Your Leadership ImpactLisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:11:11-06:00

Why Your Church Needs a Team of Leaders

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:07:12-06:00

by Amber Mann Riggs Dry Rot was a destitute place. The people there were hungry. All that hunger led to stealing. And stealing led to suspicion, and suspicion led to…well, you get the picture. But outside of Dry Rot, there were hundreds of acres of farmland. One day, the man who had inherited the land passed through the town and realized he had enough farmland to get rid of Dry Rot’s hunger problem for good. He only had a few hours to spend there, for he was on a very long journey, but he quickly purchased a book on farming, [...]

Why Your Church Needs a Team of LeadersLisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:07:12-06:00

3 Questions Every Leader Should Be Asking

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:02:11-06:00

by Whaid Rose Artios Virtual Summer Session 2021: Helping You Answer some of the Most Pressing Questions of Leadership and Ministry It’s been observed that Christian leadership involves a lot of “telling.” Preaching, teaching, strategizing, even disciple making, are largely about articulating facts and ideas, conveying principles, and so on. But “asking,” not just “telling,” is an important characteristic of effective leadership. In his book, Good Leaders Ask Great Questions, John Maxwell underscores the importance of asking questions and how this can become the catalyst for new ideas, innovation, and personal growth. 3 Questions On that basis, Auxano Ministries recently posed [...]

3 Questions Every Leader Should Be AskingLisa Harp Hinds2023-08-30T15:02:11-06:00

Ministry—”the Baptist Way”: Fresh Leadership Insights from an Unlikely Source

Lisa Harp Hinds2023-08-29T14:58:44-06:00

by Whaid Rose By the time Jesus began His public ministry, Judaism had morphed into a legalistic system of do’s and don’ts. Its purveyors were far more concerned about external performance than a personal relationship with God. For this reason, Jesus needed someone who would penetrate that system in preparing the way for His new ministry of truth and grace. God provided such a person in the man we know in Scripture as John the Baptist. In announcing his birth, the angel declared, “As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying: “The voice of [...]

Ministry—”the Baptist Way”: Fresh Leadership Insights from an Unlikely SourceLisa Harp Hinds2023-08-29T14:58:44-06:00

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