5 Truths for Leading Well through a Storm

Normally I sleep through storms. The flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder are like white noise for me.

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But when this particular storm raged, I woke up and rather than going back to sleep, I ended up wading in waist deep water at about three in the morning. 

No, it wasn’t flooding. I was standing in a lake!

I’ll tell you the story this weekend.

We’re talking about leading though storms this weekend.

The storms you’ll be called to lead through come in all shapes and sizes.

If someone in your family is facing a crisis, you are being called to lead in a storm.

If you’re a leader, manager, or supervisor, you’ll face storms where you’ll be called on to navigate a group of people through that storm. 

Even if you’re not a designated leader, God will call on you from time to time to take the lead in a storm. 

That’s exactly what we see when the apostle Paul, a prisoner at the time, assumes a leadership role in a literal storm at sea. It’s an amazing story that comes toward the end of the book of Acts and toward the end of the apostle Paul’s ministry. 

We’ll learn a lot about leading in a storm. Hope to see you there.

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What to Do When You Have an Opportunity to Share the Gospel

What would you do with an opportunity to share the gospel if it presented itself this week?

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I found myself in this kind of situation a few weeks ago. I’ll tell you about it this weekend, but the start story is that presented with the opportunity, I punted.

That’s the situation the Apostle Paul finds himself in in our text this weekend. He had every reason to punt, but he didn’t. He went for the touchdown.

It’s a fascinating story that spans a couple of years and several chapters in Acts.

The story is like a case study for us, showing us what to do when we have an opportunity to share the gospel.

Even though our situation will never mirror Paul’s in Acts, there are all kinds of things we can learn from what he did.

I hope to see you this weekend.

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