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Validation

Dennis Fletcher

“As a pastor, there are many times I think I'm too dependent on external validation. But what do you think?”
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The Leadership Journal archives contain over 35 years of issues. These archives contain a trove of pastoral wisdom, leadership skills, and encouragement for your calling.

Leadership Journal Winter 2013

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Radical Calling

a Leadership Journal interview

Fasting Together

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Recruiting Team Players

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Catching up with the Global Church

Interview with Patrick Johnstone

It's Your Call

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Finding Your Own Preaching Voice

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Developing Future Leaders

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Call Me Maybe

Refocused Vocation

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Are women happy with church?

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Multiplying the message

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Words used well

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Check Your Vitals

Gordon MacDonald

Anxiety Attack!

Tommy Nelson

Uncommon Callings

Skye Jethani

Calling all Christians

Dan Kimball

The Just Church by Jim Martin (Tyndale, 2012)

Kyle Rohane

The New Tent-Makers

Chris Kopka

Call Forwarding

John Ortberg

Leading Distracted People

Adam Stadtmiller

Bienvenidos

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The Force of Habit

Jeff Haanen

Into the Smoke

Lee Eclov

Why We Need Plumbers—and Pastors

Drew Dyck

The 2012 Leadership Book Awards

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Loving Enemies

J.B. Handelsman

Breaking Down the Dollar

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Meeting Agenda

Dennis Fletcher

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Distracted Disciples

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Personal Sermons

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Pastor Leaving

Dennis Fletcher

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No Personality

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Prayer Requests

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Reasons for Seminary

Tim Walburg

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Subtle Messages

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Even without retreating to the desert, we can train our wandering minds with ancient monastic wisdom.

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This Sunday is a yearly reminder that Christ is our only Lord—and that while governments rise and fall, he is Lord eternal.

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Now that he’s Lutheran, the rapper’s music has changed along with his theology.

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News

A Mother Tortured at Her Keyboard. A Donor Swindled. An Ambassador on Her Knees.

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Meet the Christians ensnared by cyberscamming and the ministries trying to stop it.

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America’s most churched demographic is slipping from religious life. We must go after them.

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