As we step into the new year, I pray a blessing on you: If you, as you reflect on the past year and look forward to the next, recognize an area of stuckness, please reach out to me. Let’s talk about potential coaching opportunities.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
On this Christmas day in the year of 2020, I pray that you rest and rejoice that Jesus did not hold equality with God and comfort in heaven above His desire for relationship with us and restoration of the world. Peace and Joy to you and yours! “Your attitude should be the same as that …
ABUNDANCE (part 3)
The final stronghold that keeps us from abundance is a lack of trust from an actual or perceived betrayal. Before you think I do not have conflict with anyone, the lack of trust from what feels like betrayal can be rooted in a feeling of self-judgement or even disappointment (in God) that things did not …
ABUNDANCE (part 2)
Another common scarcity mindset involves time. We really love being busy. A packed schedule gives the illusion of value in our culture. In all honesty, we worship being busy. We worship the scarcity mindset of not enough time because it feeds our identity of being needed. This mindset quickly becomes a stronghold that is not …
ABUNDANCE (part 1)
For this month, I want to reflect on the abundance vs. scarcity mindset and God’s plan for you to break three common strongholds that keep people from living life to the full. The first one has to do with the mindset of not enough money. Lack of money is a common scarcity mindset, and one …
Everyone is Created in the Image of God
The Bible tells us that humans are created in the image of God. We know this from Genesis1:27, which The Amplified Bible translates as, “so God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.” While that is straightforward, it is also easy to …
Relief or Development
There are really two basic approaches to poverty alleviation. First is relief. Fikkert and Corbett define relief as the “urgent and temporary provision of emergency aid to reduce immediate suffering from a natural or man-made crisis. The key feature of relief is a provider-receiver dynamic in which the provider gives assistance-often material-to the receiver, who …
Crisis or Chronic Situation
An important aspect of creating a frame for the conversation is creating a timeframe. Creating a goal with a specific timeframe often jolts people into focused action. This works with both chronic and crisis situations, but the approach can be different and in mission work or poverty alleviation it must be different to not be …
Poverty as Broken Relationships
As Director of Missions and Outreach for my church, I spend a good deal of time thinking about poverty and poverty alleviation work, which is ultimately the core of all mission activity. Poverty can be defined as broken relationships. Broken relationships with God, self, others, and creation look different for each of us, but we …
WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, RIGHT NOW?
“We have come to believe that beautiful questions actually do reveal beautiful answers. If we Christians really believed that beautiful questions are far more important than well-crafted answers, our mission with people would be far more effective” Joel Van Dyke and Kris Rocke The most important job of a coach (or really any leader) is …
KATHY PIERBURG 