I wonder what people think as we hold hands and pray. Tears drop onto the small table, coffee steaming nearby, a half-eaten cinnamon roll on a plate. I don’t even like coffee, but I love what I find in this simple half-hour “coffee shop study” with friends. Life is busy. That’s almost cliché, except it’s […]
Archives for October 2016
Resources for Leading Coffee Shop Bible Studies
For the last few months, I’d been asking God how to reach women more effectively and how to expand that reach, especially in small groups. As I visited with women’s ministries leaders, they shared the same desire. Though churches offer a variety of gatherings throughout the year, Bible studies offer a unique set of struggles. […]
Can Our Strengths Be Damaging?
God didn’t create women to be doormats, weak-willed airheads and pathetic losers. God created women to be iron-sharpening friends, creative life-givers and inspiring influencers. He created us to bring Him glory with our strengths. But, if we’re not careful, we can be destructively fierce instead of life-giving and inspiring — especially in our closest relationships. […]
5 Questions to Help Adults Conquer Their Fear of the Future
A college senior sat in my office, ghost pale and trembling. She looked at me through eyes swollen from lack of sleep and crying and asked, “What’s going to happen to me? I’m just so afraid of the future. What am I supposed to do?” In my roles as a college instructor and as campus […]
What to Do When They Ask You to Speak
Hey Wendy, you lead our women’s ministry. You lead Bible study. You are a perfect fit! “For what?,” I asked. We need a speaker to share a short message for our next women’s event. Can you put together a quick twenty-minute message for next Thursday?” Gulp! Yes, I can lead. I can pray. I can […]
How to Be a Fierce Leader Without Damaging Relationships
He coldly articulated what I’d suspected, but now knew to be true, “I don’t love you.” Outwardly, a long silence followed my husband’s crisply delivered words. What was there to say or add to his announcement? We’d only been married five years. I looked at the beautiful result of a wildly romantic night in Wichita […]
Do You Have Confidence to Obey God’s Call?
What traits do you look for in a leader? For many, leadership means having a certain strength, gravitas or personal charisma — a leader energizes a room by just walking into it. But how often do we think of humility as essential to leadership? In its most basic definition, humility is recognizing who we are […]
5 Steps to Writing an Effective Message [Video]
Learn from Wendy Blight the steps you should follow to prepare a message that effectively equips the audience to apply Scripture to their own lives. In this video, you will learn: How to provide a message that always gives the audience an immediate opportunity to take action for themselves. Why speaking on a topic that you […]