God’s Intentions Define My Purpose Clay Nash and I were having one of our insightful discussion over some post-conference meeting dining. I was pointing out that my idea that “potential is the greatest enemy of purpose,” and he mentioned that I should include the word “intention” in my discussion. Of course, he read the essentials […]
Category: General
The Kingdom Leader’s Role in Kingdom Culture
Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther led us out of the dominating leadership paradigm of Roman Catholicism. Instead of producing a New Testament form of kingdom leadership, however, the protesters or Protestants, developed their manmade government structures to guarantee that they would never fall back into a papal dictatorship again. They did not visit the […]
Your Existing Root System
How should we understand “the cares of life” and “the deceitfulness of riches” as an existing root system that chokes the Word so that It does not produce what it was sown to produce? Jesus says this system exists before the seed falls upon this otherwise rich soil. This soil is producing something already, but […]
Personal Leadership and Kingdom Leadership: My Ultimate for His Priorities
You can recognize Oswald Chamber’s famous “My Utmost for His Highest” in the title, and he meant by that what I mean mine. I apply this idea to the process that produces the ultimate kingdom leader. We live in a power-point moment in which the greatest kingdom leaders of all history should be alive, well, […]
Ten Reasons Elders Are Fivefold Kingdom Leaders
The word “elder” is the same in working definition as “bishop.” Oversight is the job description. Expertise and experience are the qualities of the person given oversight. The eldering leader may have another identifying ministry, leadership role, and kingdom function, but he called as one of the five kingdom leadership dynamics that Paul says Jesus […]
Marriage Is To Be Honored by Everyone
Honoring marriage is more than an internal, individual, and intimate issue. It is everybody’s business whether or not you honor marriage. If you are a kingdom citizen, you are accountable to the entire kingdom culture for the condition of your marriage. That said, there are all kinds of help available in the kingdom to secure […]
Success Begins with the Least, not the Highest
“If hell is happy when our strengths get stronger as long as our weaknesses get weaker.” Dr Don Lynch Jesus has a leadership style unlike any available in the natural world. You cannot become more like Jesus as a Leader by studying the leadership principles of mammon. You will find some of His principles, processes, […]
Plowing Prayer and Preaching
[Dr. Don: “This is an apostolic message preached in other nations that seems to apply to America right now.”] There is a difference between speaking Truth and preparing people to receive Truth. We have been called to do both, and Jesus has a strategy for both. Beware the simplistic perception that all we are called […]
How Successful Has Our Warfare Been? (Tactical Manual for the New Era)
The spiritual warfare success rate is dismal. I wish I could say it is amazing. I cannot. I can say that we have great examples of amazing breakthroughs. I can also say we talk about them because they are exceptions, not the norm. Unless we see ourselves as roving bands of marauders fighting the pirates […]
Fathers Put the “Wow!” on Your Priorities
That moment when a younger person joins the fight we’ve been in for forty years with great passion: Welcome to the fray. While I think it is wonderful to hear your experience, it is bewildering that you see it as unique when a thousand others have been walking this walk for years. That is why […]