Finding God's Will

Many of us spend a lot of energy wondering about God's will for our lives. I would be included in that energetic quest especially these days as it seems that God may be moving me into some new arenas of service.

Dallas Willard has been a strong and impacting literary voice for me over the past year because of 'Renovation of the Heart' and his in depth work on discovering God's will called, 'Hearing God'.

Hearing God is not the easiest book that I've ever read--Willard's accurate theology forces us through a writing style grid that doesn't allow this to read like good fiction. But, the effort is worth it. If you're willing to mine his books and approach them with a learner's toolkit complete with Bible, ink pen & notepad (in my case, compuer) to 'respond' then you'll be rewarded with priceless theological gems and golden wisdom. The digging will not always be easy, but it will be productive.

This is MEAT for those who would tune thier lives toward following Christ into full union with God. I'd encourage you to dive into anything by Dallas Willard head first, and I especially encourage you to devour 'Hearing God' if you're striving to seek God's will for your life.

I anticipate that I'll mine 'Renovation of the Heart' and 'Hearing God' over and over for many years and still have plenty to learn after all that.

Have a great day,
Jeff Fuson

p.s. 'It is absolutely essential to the nature of our personal development toward maturity that we venture and be placed at risk, for only risk produces character. This truth is intensified when it comes to our walk with God.' Dallas Willard on page 210 of 'Hearing God'

Some Email forwards I get are just a waste of time, but every so often I get one that is really cool. This one is of the 'Very Cool' variety. I'm just gonna post a link to this so that you can enjoy it as often as you'd like.

It's called 'The Interview with God' and the images used are spectacular.

Enjoy,
Jeff


p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

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Some Email forwards I get are just a waste of time, but every so often I get one that is really cool. This one is of the 'Very Cool' variety. I'm just gonna post a link to this so that you can enjoy it as often as you'd like.

It's called 'The Interview with God' and the images used are spectacular.

Enjoy,
Jeff


p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

p.p.p.p.s. Okay last one! Feel FREE to distribute this content as long as you pass it along in it's entirety with all links in place pointing to original urls. Give credit where credit is due and use this to build other people up. Thanks for playing and thanks for passing this along. Jeff Fuson

Narnia Reviews by Albert Mohler and PluggedInOnline.com

Here are a couple of resources to help you think clearly about Narnia -- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe -- the C.S. Lewis classic from the Chronicles of Narnia series released by Walt Disney and Walden Media on December 9, 2005 in over 3,000 theaters in the U.S.A.

Movie Review: Plugged In Online


Here's a radio program by Albert Mohler where he reviews Narnia --
this gives you a lot to think about + it has some cools audio clips from Narnia to give you even more of a sense of what's going to happen. Hope you get a chance to listen to this.



Albert Mohler Radio Show


Written Comments from Mohler's radio program…

Take your kids.

Simply Spectacular.

The four kids are very good and they are not fake. They carry themselves off very well.

When you hear the words, ‘Aslan is on the move’ your pulse is gonna quicken.

It’s a very significant movie and I was afraid that it wouldn’t be true to the original work.


It’s gonna start a lot of conversations.


It’s alright to be moved by this story and to be moved the right way. To be moved by this allegory is really encouraging.


Anyone who says that this is a secular film either does not know what Christianity is or what ‘secular’ is.


I’m more moved by the allegory of Aslan at the stone table than the crucifiction. (This is a quote from a person other than A. Mohler and was just mentioned in the course of this program)


I found myself very emotionally moved at the Stone Table scene…Albert Moehler


This is not the end of the story…you really see the change in the Universe that takes place.


When you see the effects of sin as never ending winter with no Christmas contrasted against Aslan and the green of spring we get a deeper sense of the Gospel.


What a great thing to do with your family this Christmas season.

Albert Moehler


C.S. Lewis had only one concern about this being made into a movie and said, ‘Remember, Aslan is Jesus and there must be no trick.’



Just thought you'd like to read up and listen up,


Jeff

p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

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Tyler Eldred and Life Champion International Live

Keep an eye out for a live teleseminar all about Conflict with Tyler Eldred who is the Conflict Guru.

p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

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Dallas Willard

I just started reading a great book by Dallas Willard called Renovation of the Heart and I've got to tell you that it's gonna be a huge book for me.

Like many leaders I've spent much of my life relying on natural talents and gifts to lead. As I've matured and as I've seen the team I lead grow significantly I've come to a place where I must continually expand on these gifts in order to lead a larger team to perform the work of Kingdom Advancement at an even higher level.

What I've encountered at times is what John Maxwell calls the Law of the Lid and I've been working and wondering for a couple of years how best to raise the lid so that our team can advance and I can continue to lead. Dallas Willard's 2002 Navpress title is feeding my spirit in a way that so many of the 'paint by numbers' leadership books simply can't and don't.

So, I'll keep you posted. But, so far this looks like it's gonna be a great time of advancement for me as I drill into this insightful narrative on allowing God to bring about a total transformation of me.

If you're reading this book or would like to talk about it further feel free to drop me a note.

Have a great day,
Jeff Fuson

(By the way, I'm under no illusion that God couldn't get this done without me and I count it a great honor to have the chance to lead at all in this great endeavor of advancing the Kingdom of God. So, please know that I understand that this is foremost a Holy Spirit empowered movement that could continue its wildfire like success without me.)


p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

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Leadership Defined

Leader - Definition…

' A Christian leader is one who serves as a Spiritual Artisan among a group of people to move them toward God's chosen agenda for that group at this point in history. The Spiritual Artisan Leader is God's agent-- gifted, called, and wired to co-labor with God in moving this group onto God's agenda.'

Jeff Fuson

October 2005

p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

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Bobby Clinton's Leadership Emergence Theory

Leadership Emergence Theory suggests that God is at work in the life of a leader. The experiences, people, joy, pain, trials, triumphs of the leader are used by God to chisel the emerging leader into the person God desires and can use best. Leadership emergence theory suggests that God is at work sculpting leaders and positioning leaders to accomplish His will.

This definition makes me hopeful that I’m arriving at the Convergence Phase in my life. I no longer wonder why I’ve been hammered on so hard at points along the way and I didn’t even realize that God was using those painful ‘hammerings’ to make me more usable to Him.

I'm grateful to Dr. Bobby Clinton, one of the unique voices on Leaders and leadership emergence, who coined this thought process.

You may want to grab a copy of Dr. Clinton's book on The Making of a Leader here.

Thanks,
Jeff Fuson

p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

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Jeff Fuson's Favorite Reads for Rising Leaders

Fourteen of Jeff Fuson's Favorite Reads for Rising Leaders...
1. Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala
2. Habitudes by Dr. Tim Elmore
3. Spiritual Leadership by Blackaby and Blackaby
4. Spiritual Leadership by Oswald A. Sanders
5. Choosing to Cheat by Andy Stanley
6. The Volunteer Revolution by Bill Hybels
7. EPIC by John Elderidge
8. Secrets of the Vine by Bruce Wilkinson
9. Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
10. God is Closer than You Think by John Ortberg
11. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey
12. Experiencing God by Henry T. Blackaby & Claude V. King
13. The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
14. A Call to Die by David Nasser



p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

p.p.p.p.s. Okay last one! Feel FREE to distribute this content as long as you pass it along in it's entirety with all links in place pointing to original urls. Give credit where credit is due and use this to build other people up. Thanks for playing and thanks for passing this along. Jeff Fuson

Leaders Got to LEAD! Great analysis by Eric Reed

Eric Reed over at Leadership Journal really nails down a lot of great thinking as he writes about lessons we can all learn from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina about leadership.

It really all boils down to the fact that Leaders Got to LEAD!

I'd encourage you to read Eric's insightful editorial.

If you are a leader or a wannabe then your shoud RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and consider joining the team. The core idea driving Rising Leader Alliance.com is this: 'When Big Leaders Show Up Big Problems Get Solved.' So, we're all about helping leaders grow bigger, stronger, faster and more available to what God is up to in the world. Because we believe when that happens the Kingdom of God kicks boo-tay!

Have a great one,
Jeff Fuson

p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

p.p.p.p.s. Okay last one! Feel FREE to distribute this content as long as you pass it along in it's entirety with all links in place pointing to original urls. Give credit where credit is due and use this to build other people up. Thanks for playing and thanks for passing this along. Jeff Fuson

Thousands Face Personal Hurricanes all Over the World

Over the past weeks in the U.S. it's been 'Hurricane Central' with Katrina and Rita tearing into the Gulf of Mexico with quite a fury. I'll admit that I've been as glued to it all as many, but I can only watch so many reporters being pelted by sideways rain clinging to trees or signposts for stability in 80 mph winds before they all kind of blur together. Same story told over and over and over and over and over and over...

And, as gripping as all that may be I can't help but wonder how many children all over the world have Category Five Hurricanes tearing into their lives every day. Storms called 'AIDS', or 'dysentery' or 'hunger' or the death of a parent. The greatest tragedy of the U.S. Hurricanes will be if we take our eyes off of the 'global picture' where there are thousands of Personal Hurricanes brewing everyday.

I did a quick google search to try to get an answer about the scope of the world hunger problem and here's a few links that I found that are loaded with information that you may find shocking and perhaps inspiring if you're a person who likes to make a difference.

Poverty Fact Sheet from World Vision

Hurricane Brewing Daily for Children all over the world -- startling facts

World Vision Reports: World Summit on the Millenium Goals at the U.N.

So, as you read some of the info from the reports above you'll see that the Global need remains staggering.

Just wanted to post a reminder to us all and to ask that you pray about sponsoring a child somewhere else in the world. Julie and I do that through World Vision and we'd highly recommend it to you as well.

Rising Leaders have the will to make a difference and because of God's great power at work in us we will!

Just thought you'd like to know,
Jeff Fuson

p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

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Daddy Power

It's a rainy Sunday afternoon in Kentucky and I'm hangin' out with our 3 year old. He's absolutely amazing. He's a walking, talking, full of expressive life little human loaded with laughter and song. He's my youngest child and I'm still amazed that I get to be 'dad'.

His favorite word these days seems to be 'dad'. As in, 'Dad, will you open the door for me.' 'Dad, will you help me move my motorcycle?' 'Hey Dad, can I go wis you?' 'Bye, bye Dad'. 'Hey Dad, I heard an airplane.' 'Dad, will you pick me up.' 'Dad, wrestle me.' 'Dad, watch me.' 'Hey Dad, Look _________ ' -- you can fill in the blank with 'watch me pee', 'watch me do a somersault,' 'watch me ride my motorcycle...'

He's a total joy.

Just a few minutes ago I was hangin' out on the downstairs couch for my obligatory Sunday afternoon nap when he came in. He jumped on me over and over and over and we wrestled and cuddled and as I was singing that silly Barney song, 'I love you' he began to sing it back to me in echo and my heart was flooded with joy and reverence and awe. For this was a holy moment. A moment of deep fellowship between me and my son. WOW!

I know from having a 'dad' who just called me that it's a powerful on boths sides of the deal. Being 'dad' is incredible and being 'son' is full of joy as well. I've been blessed because I was loved and am loved by a real 'dad'.

So, everyday, I remind myself that being 'Dad' is among God's greatest gifts to me and to give being 'dad' a high priority as I plan my busy weeks. I often experience the triple whammy of too much to do at work, needing to earn more and climb the career ladder, and wanting to be half the dad my dad was to me. You may get caught in the same triple whammy and wonder what to do.

Andy Stanly wrote an incredible book called, 'Choosing to Cheat' that will you some tremendous insights into how to handle the triple whammy. It's a quick and powerful read for daddys who want to get this dad business right.

Perhaps you and your church would benefit from a Daddy-Power(tm) Workshop to help learn to deal with the Triple Whammy. If you'd like to learn more about that just post a comment in the comment box and let me know how to get in touch with you and I'll get back to you asap so we can explore it a bit more.

So, here's to being a better daddy -- even in the midst of the triple whammy!

Enjoy your children!
Jeff Fuson

p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

p.p.p.p.s. Okay last one! Feel FREE to distribute this content as long as you pass it along in it's entirety with all links in place pointing to original urls. Give credit where credit is due and use this to build other people up. Thanks for playing and thanks for passing this along. Jeff Fuson

It's worth fightin' about

Hurricane Katrina Blasted the Gulf Coast of North America and has Obliterated Many Lives.

The response from people has been powerful--both positive and negative. It is bringing out the best and the worst in us at the same time. The worst -- violent outbreaks that threaten the rescuers. The best -- an 8-mile-long caravan of rescue vehicles pulled into New Orleans near the Superdome this morning.

Meredith Salyers is a fired up Rising Leader when it comes to helping those who've been blasted by Katrina. She has gone head to head and toe to toe with the 20-somethings at our church to challenge them to give up some of their entertainment choices over the coming weeks in order to redirect those dollars into relief work. She says it's the least we can do in the face of such suffering. Sometimes leaders have got to hold a light even for good people to see by and that's what I believe Meredith did. It wasn't easy to challenge her peers,but sometimes leaders must lead. Maybe God is calling you to hold up a light of hope for those whose lives have been obliterated by Katrina.

Some of us are wondering what we can do and what we should do. I'll leave the 'should' part for you to figure out, but one thing we can do is send cash. My hunch is that what's needed more than anything right this moment is cash to run the relief operations. There are several professional organizations responding strongly right now, but I know they'll burn cash like it's a bonfire to mobilize the people, food, water, and medical supplies necessary to get this going. It's important when you choose to give that you select an organization that will get the job done and that's why I'm recommending World Vision to you as a place where you can confidently send your donation.

I posted a screen capture of their current webpage and encourage you to consider World Vision as a possible way for you to respond immediately. (The links on this 'screen captured' page are not active but just click here to go to the real World Vision site)

Storm the Gates,
Jeff Fuson
p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

p.p.p.p.s. Okay last one! Feel FREE to distribute this content as long as you pass it along in it's entirety with all links in place pointing to original urls. Give credit where credit is due and use this to build other people up. Thanks for playing and thanks for passing this along. Jeff Fuson

'Too Dang Busy' -- A Bible Study on Time Management for Rising Leaders

'It's 7:30, time to go!'
Our 2 year old son had heard that so many mornings as we were trying to herd our kids out the door to go to school that it became one of his favorite things to say any time he saw a clock. No matter what time it really was, in his brain it was 7:30 and it was time to go!

For a Rising Leader the reality is that it's almost always time to go somewhere to do something for somebody for some really good reason. As a matter of fact one of the greatest challenges to long term results for a leader is the proper use of time. Some call it time management, other event control or personal leadership.

I prefer to think of 'time management' as 'Personal Leadership' because when a leader 'leads' themselves then the events (time) in his / her life works out properly and she/he impacts his target zone properly. When a wannabe leader squanders time or uses it frivilously she may also fritter away the chance to have the impact that God has in mind.

Jesus took time seriously and no question had the most prolific life of real time results AND sustained strategic movement of any person in history, so it makes sense to pay attention to how He led himself.

I was amazed about how much the Bible has to say about the proper use of time and about the more central idea of leading ourselves so that we can maximize our impact. Since I just built a talk for the students at Crestwood Baptist Church called 'Too Dang Busy' I thought I'd pour out some of the concepts I shared with you. Please let me know how this hits you and what else you might want to know about personal leadership to become the leader God is calling you to be.

Too Dang Busy -- A Bible Study on Time Management for Rising Leaders
Key idea: Time is a sacred trust and how we use it determines the quality and impact of our lives. Time well invested brings a great kingdom return while time wasted leads to ruin, poverty, lost opportunity and minimized Kingdom influence flowing through you.

The Time/Life Pressure Teens Face in America:
Demands and expectations of others on their lives:
Parents’ out of control ego needs
Parents’ expectations that you get a full ride scholarship
Teachers’ expectations that the homework that they give is the most
important homework in the universe and should be done first and best.
Coaches’ expectations that you work on the sport that they coach YEAR-
ROUND.
Our Youth Ministries expectation that you give this 110%--let me stop and apologize for this on one hand. I promise you that I work hard to keep my ego in check so that when I’m asking something of you it’s to bring you into a more vital relationship with God and to prepare you for what God wants you to do and be. But, let me be very clear – I do believe that spiritual growth is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN YOUR LIFE—THAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IS THE MOST VITAL COMPONENT OF YOUR LIFE. IT’S WHAT YOU WERE MEANT FOR AND DESIGNED FOR. So, my commitment to you is that I will continue to seek God so that we’re not putting our ‘ego needs’ on your shoulders to carry around, however you must know that I do believe that your spiritual life is way more important than anything else you can do with your time and energy.

Being busy does not wear us out – in fact if we’re doing what we’re ‘wired to do’ it charges us up. We almost can’t get enough. Being busy wears us out when we are not taking action on what matters most to us. When what we’re involved in doesn’t line up with what matters most to us or fit God's design in our lives then we get worn out and fatigued easily. We can do superhuman things when our efforts line up with what matters most to us and when what matters most to us fits God’s agenda for our lives.

Hyrum Smith has this to say on page 3 of “The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management” …the focus of this book, then, is not exclusively on time management but on achieving inner peace—the transcendent feeling of fulfillment and well-being we all seek. Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the events of our lives. But efficient use of time management alone will never give us inner peace.
The secret to achieving inner peace lies in understanding our inner core values—those things in our lives that are most important to us—and then seeing that they are reflected in the daily events of our lives. In other words, doing a better job of managing our time is meaningless unless we are managing it to accomplish those things that are of greatest importance in our lives. That critical difference between simply managing our time and finding the fulfillment that comes from being in control of our lives is what this book is all about. And this simple concept – of making sure that our daily activities reflect our deepest core values – is the concept that has made all the difference in my own life.

Scriptures to study and apply regarding personal leadership & time management:

Proverbs 3:1-10 NLT (New Living Translation)
What’s the big idea from this passage?

What are the key principles from this passage?

What are the promises from this passage?

What if we approached our time with a sense of stewardship and gave to God the very best of our time as if it were a ‘tithe’ of the best of our crops?

Romans 12:1-2 Don’t be squeezed into the pattern of this world.
Where is the world squeezing in on you?

Who is the most Godly and Influential Leader you know and how do they use
their time?

When you compare how they value, manage, and leverage time to how you do
those things what do you see?

Jesus is our ‘pacesetter’ as a Rising Leader and we’d do well to follow his example as opposed to the world’s or even other great leader’s, so as we move along in this study watch for how Jesus lived these principles out.

I Timothy 4:7-8
Being physically and academically fit are valued by our world as the ultimate in readiness. Parents and teachers and coaches push teens to the breaking point in order to create a scholarship magnet and state champions. The intention is noble until it collides with a bigger reality and an eternal Kingdom where we gain a true sense that God’s ideas are way different than ours about what matters.

Read that passage 3 times and let it really sink in. After you’ve done that write down 3 things that you notice in that passage:
1.
2.
3.

What’s one thing that you may need to adjust in your life to shift toward valuing spiritual training even more than your physical and academic training?

The ‘Jesus Pattern’ of Time Management

Mark 1:35 Jesus goes out before daybreak
Luke 5:12-16
Write out the basic ‘timeline of what happens in this passage’ in a simple chronological order:

How busy was Jesus getting to be?

Have you ever been that busy?

What does Jesus do that allows Him to remain effective in the midst of busy-ness and throngs of people all wanting something from Him?

How can you better follow the “Jesus Pattern”?

Luke 6:12
Read this verse and then back up and read from chapter 6 verse 1 up to 12 and see what’s going on in Jesus life and then see how he responds to what’s going on. What seems to be part of the ‘Jesus Pattern’ of Personal Leadership?


John 14:10
What do you see in that verse about Jesus’ connection to God?


Key principle from Jesus’ life – "I do what I sense God is doing." Jesus took his cues from God directly.

Jesus’ sense of timing was remarkable. A great comedian has a remarkable sense of timing about the precise moment to deliver the punch line and it makes all the difference. A leader’s sense of timing can lead to phenomenal results or run the enterprise into the ground. Jesus moved on God’s cue and because of that He never missed an assignment and he never failed to execute that assignment perfectly.

On Jesus’ sense of timing:
John 2:4 – my time has not yet come (yet he submitted to his mother’s request)
John 7:6 – you go, but I’m staying here b/c my time isn’t come yet.
John 11:1-6 – he gets word on Lazarus illness and then stays put for two days…
John 12:23 my time has come
John 13:1 Jesus knew that his time had come
John 17:1 Father, the time has come…

Here’s the big idea on the ‘Jesus Pattern’: Intimacy with God is THE mainspring of a life lived well with Kingdom Impact for a Rising Leader.

The ‘Jesus Pattern’ of Self Leadership:
1. Take Time to be intimately connected to God.
2. Accept God’s Agenda for your life by adjusting to and acting on His plan.

Other Scriptures for you to consider as you hammer out a pattern for how you’ll lead yourself and therefore make better use of the time that God has given you.

Psalm 90:12 – number our days – make the most of time

Ephesians 5:15-20 Make the most of every opp. Know what time it is.

Closing Ideas:
When you compare the way manage your time how do you stack up to the ‘Jesus Pattern’?
Where are you similar?
Where are you way off the mark?
What is one thing that you can and WILL do beginning right now to better follow the Jesus Pattern?


The Wrap Up: 3 Steps YOU must take when you’re too dang busy.
1. Know your ultimate purpose in life is to Know and Enjoy God forever and move towards that. Begin with that end in mind.
What do you sense is HIS will for your life right now?
What gifts and assets has He given you to do the next thing He’s called you to? Based on how you’re wired what role are you supposed to play?
Accept God’s Agenda for your life.
Cultivate a ‘YES LORD…’ mindset.

2. Take more time to meet with HIM about what’s going on – not less. Embrace the irony that more time spent with Him will make the time you have left more powerful.

3. Put the BIG ROCKS IN FIRST – Select / Reject / Prioritize by scheduling appointments in your coming week for the most important things like quality time alone with God to hear and accept HIS agenda for your life. Effective leaders usually work by appointments and I’ve found that when I put an appointment in my schedule to meet with God for significant time that it rarely gets challenged because when someone else wants that block of time I find no resistance when I tell them that I already have an appointment for that time, because I do. By the way, if I ‘skip’ that appointment with God my effectiveness will grind to a painful stop in a very short time.

After you schedule in the ‘big rocks’ then decide what you won’t do. Maybe even go so far as to build a ‘not to do’ list of things that you’re rejecting. These may even be things that were a priority for you just yesterday. Life changes and if we’re going to accomplish His purpose for our lives we’ll have to say ‘good-bye’ to some things that just aren’t productive.

If you’re life is still too jam packed to be effective you’ll have to prioritize your appointments being sure to give high leverage appointments the #1 slice of your life and make all the other ‘stuff’ fit around that or toss it out of your schedule altogether.

To learn more about living life on purpose and leading yourself more effectively check out these blog posts:
Doing Your Life Mission
Great Quotes on Doing the Life You Love

Wanna learn even more about Time Management? I’d highly recommend that you read and study the following books:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R. Covey
First Things First by Stephen R. Covey
The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management by Hyrum W. Smith

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Katrina Satellite Images...

Source of this image: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Assoication (NOAA)


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p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

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When the storm comes...(and it will)

It's been called 'The Perfect Storm' and Katrina is bearing down on the Gulf Coast of the United States this evening. If the storm stays true to form and continues it's present track it will score a direct hit on the the city of New Orleans, in Louisiana, United States.

The major news agencies in the U.S., including Geraldo Rivera on Fox News, are covering this history maker with a fury that matches the wind speed of the impending storm. The images that were the most pregnant with meaning for me were the images of little children waiting with the mothers in a 2 Mile Long line outside of the Super Dome. The Super Dome was designed as a giant indoor football arena--not an emergency shelter. Tough to imagine that people will possibly be in that Superdome for days, if not weeks.

It appears that the city of New Orleans and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have prepared as well as possible for the unthinkable attack from a storm of this magnitude and that's impressive. But, for all the preparation, will it be enough?

It's a huge problem that New Orleans is situated below sea level and is surrounded on 3 sides with water that could overpower the levy system. If the media is right about what could happen and the water surges above the levies New Orleans could be buried in water for days, maybe weeks.

Two things that this news makes me want to do...
1. Pray like crazy. Especially for all the little children who will spend this nite and maybe many more in the Super Dome. Tough imagine what thier world may be like in the near future and tougher to imagine how they'll recover in any reasonable amount of time. Add to the children the old and frail and the remarkably poor who may be strapped to the low ground by their circumstances as the waters are being swept toward them this evening. Oh God, have mercy.

2. New Orleans has know that this could happen for years and for years she has dodged a direct hit. Many hope that this will be the case in a few hours and Katrina will make a turn and head a different direction at the last moment. When I consider the likely plight of New Orleans it makes me wonder what areas of my life are 'under sea level' that leave me and my family vulnerable to the Perfect Storm. It causes me to be even more aware of where I'm weak and need to be built up, where I may need to move to higher ground or at least build a higher and stronger wall. Considering this likely direct hit on New Orleans motivates me to get deadly serious about building up the places in my life that are 'under sea level. Oh God, grant me the motivation, the tools and the buddies it will take for me to move to higher ground before the Perfect Storm hits.

What aspects of your life are 'below sea level' ? What can you do to prepare before a 'Perfect Storm' takes aim at you.?

Pray for the folks in and around New Orleans,
Jeff Fuson



p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

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Beth Moore's Airport Story -- You've got to read this

As part of a recent talk I gave on what it means to be a 'Gate Stormer' in the Kingdom of God I used a great story that you've just got to read, so I'm posting it here. (By the way, if you'd like to know more about becoming a Gate Stormer watch for more entries coming here soon, or you can check out risingleaderalliance.com where I focus almost exclusively on preparing Rising Leaders to Storm the Gates.)

Beth Moore may be the hottest commodity on the Bible Study Leader roundup. If she were a publicly traded commodity she'd be a HOT PICK.

I've only seen Beth Moore in person one time. She's energetic, witty, has a passion for communincating God's Word and loves to say, 'Bless your heart...' with a Texas drawal. Long story short is that she's a great teacher who's building a massive following of learners and Beth Moore wannabes. I'd encourage you to grab one of her studies and see what you think.

I hardly ever read email forwards, but this one got past my internal common sense filters and I'm glad it did. I received this on email the other day and I definitely felt like it was worth posting for you to consider.

Beth Moore's Story
April 20, 2005
Knoxville Airport

Waiting to board the plane: I had the Bible on my lap and was very
intent upon what I was doing. I'd had a marvelous morning with the
Lord.

I say that because I want to tell you it is a scary thing to have the
Spirit of God really working in you. You could end up doing some
things you never would have done otherwise. Life in the Spirit can
be dangerous for a thousand reasons not the least of which is your ego...

I tried to keep from staring, but he was such a strange sight.
Humped over in a wheelchair, he was skin and bones, dressed in clothes
that obviously fit when he was at least twenty pounds heavier.

His knees protruded from his trousers, and his shoulders looked like the
coat hanger was still in his shirt.

His hands looked like tangled masses of veins and bones. The strangest
part of him was his hair and nails. Stringy grey hair hung well over his
shoulders and down part of his back.

His fingernails were long.

Clean, but strangely out of place on an old man.

I looked down at my Bible as fast as I could, discomfort burning my
face.

There I sat trying to concentrate on the Word to keep from being
concerned about a thin slice of humanity served on a wheelchair only
a few seats from me. All the while my heart was growing more and
more overwhelmed with a feeling for him. Let's admit it. Curiosity
is a heap more comfortable than true concern, and suddenly I was
awash with aching emotion for this bizarre-looking old man.

I had walked with God long enough to see the handwriting on the wall.

I've learned that when I begin to feel what God feels, something so
Contrary to my natural feelings, something dramatic is bound to happen.
And it may be embarrassing. I immediately began to resist because I
could feel God working on my spirit and I started arguing with God in
my mind.

"Oh no, God please no." I looked up at the ceiling as if I could stare
straight through it into heaven and said, "Don't make me witness to
This man. Not right here and now. Please. I'll do anything. Put me on
the same plane, but don't make me get up here and witness to this
man in front of this gawking audience. Please, Lord!"...

There I sat in the blue vinyl chair begging His Highness, "Please
don't make me witness to this man. Not now. I'll do it on the plane."

Then I heard it..."I don't want you to witness to him. I want you to
brush his hair." The words were so clear, my heart leapt into my
throat, and my thoughts spun like a top. Do I witness to the man or
brush his hair?

No brainer. I looked straight back up at the ceiling and said, "God, as
I live and breathe, I want you to know I am ready to witness to this
man.

I'm on this Lord. I'm you're girl! You've never seen a woman witness
to a man faster in your life. What difference does it make if his hair
is a mess if he is not redeemed? I am on him. I am going to witness to
this man."

Again as clearly as I've ever heard an audible word, God seemed to
write this statement across the wall of my mind. "That is not what
I said, Beth.

I don't want you to witness to him. I want you to go brush his hair."

I looked up at God and quipped, "I don't have a hairbrush. It's in my
suitcase on the plane, How am I suppose to brush his hair without a
hairbrush?"...

God was so insistent that I almost involuntarily began to walk toward
him as these thoughts came to me from God's word: "I will thoroughly
Furnish you unto all good works." (2 Tim 3:17) I stumbled over to the
wheelchair thinking I could use one myself. Even as I retell this story
my pulse quickens and I feel those same butterflies.

I knelt down in front of the man, and asked as demurely as possible,
"Sir, may I have the pleasure of brushing your hair?" He looked back
at me and said, "What did you say?" "May I have the pleasure of
brushing your hair?"

He responded in volume ten, "Little lady, if you expect me to
hear you, you're going to have to talk louder than that. At this
point,

I took a deep breath and blurted out, "SIR, MAY I HAVE THE
PLEASURE OF BRUSHING YOUR HAIR?"

At that point, every eye in the place darted right at me. I was the
only thing in the room looking more peculiar than old Mr. Longlocks.
Face crimson and forehead breaking out in a sweat, I watched him l
ook up at me with absolute shock on his face, and say, "If you really
want to."

Are you kidding? Of course I didn't want to. But God didn't seem
interested in my personal preference right about then. He pressed
on my heart until I could utter the words, "Yes, sir, I would be pleased.
But I have one little problem. I don't have a hairbrush."

"I have one in my bag," he responded. I went around to the back of
That wheelchair and I got on my hands and knees and unzipped the
stranger's old carry-on hardly believing what I was doing. I stood up
and started brushing the old man's hair. It was perfectly clean, but it
was tangled and matted.

I don't do many things well, but I must admit I've had notable
experience untangling knotted hair mothering two little girls. Like I'd
done with either Amanda or Melissa in such a condition, I began brushing
at the very bottom of the strands, remembering to take my time not to pull.

A miraculous thing happened to me as I started brushing that old man's
hair. Everybody else in the room disappeared. There was no one alive
for those moments except that old man and me. I brushed and I brushed
and I brushed until every tangle was out of that hair.

I know this sounds so strange, but I've never felt that kind of love
For another soul in my entire life. I believe with all my heart, I - for
that few minutes - felt a portion of the very love of God. He had
Overtaken my heart for a little while like someone renting a room and
making Himself at home for a short while. The emotions were so strong
and so pure that I knew they had to be God's.

His hair was finally as soft and smooth as an infant's. I slipped the
brush back in the bag, went around the chair to face him. I got back
down on my knees, put my hands on his knees, and said, "Sir, do
you know my Jesus?"

He said, "Yes, I do." Well, that figures. He explained, "I've known
Him since I married my bride." She wouldn't marry me until I got to
Know the Savior." He said, "You see, the problem is, I haven't seen
my bride in months. I've had open-heart surgery, and she's been too
ill to come see me. I was sitting here thinking to myself. What a mess
I must be for my bride."

Only God knows how often He allows us to be part of a divine moment
when we are completely unaware of the significance. This, on the
other hand, was one of those rare encounters when I knew God had
intervened in details only He could have known. It was a God moment,
and I'll never forget it.

Our time came to board, and we were not on the same plane. I was
deeply ashamed of how I'd acted earlier and would have been so proud
to have accompanied him on that aircraft.

I still had a few minutes, and as I gathered my things to board, the
airline hostess returned from the corridor, tears streaming down her
cheeks.

She said, "That old man's sitting on the plane, sobbing. Why did you
do that? What made you do that?"

I said, "Do you know Jesus? He can be the bossiest thing!" We got to share.

I learned something about God that day. He knows if you're exhausted
because you're hungry, you're serving in the wrong place or it is time
to move on but you feel too responsible to budge. He knows if you're
hurting or feeling rejected. He knows if you're sick or drowning under
a wave of temptation. He knows if you just need your hair brushed.

He sees you as an individual. Tell Him your need!

I got on my own flight, sobs choking my throat, wondering how many
opportunities just like that one had I missed along the way... all
because I didn't want people to think I was strange.

God didn't send me to that old man. He sent that old man to me.

If you're like me what I want being a 'Gate Stormer' to be about is
some sort of glorious jihad that will fuel my ego's need for action and
applause. But, the Kingdom that Jesus established way back there
at a place known to the locals of Caesara Phillippi as 'The Gates of Hell'
is an 'upside down' Kingdom. A Kingdom where the first go last and
the greatest serve the least. I'm not always sure I want to be a Gate
Stormer in His Kingdom because it's not an 'ego friendly'
undertaking. However, my hope and greatest desire is to be found
faithful in knowing and enjoying Him as I serve in His Great Kingdom.

Wanna Storm the Gates of Hell? Go grab a hair brush.

See ya,
Jeff Fuson

p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

p.p.p.p.s. Okay last one! Feel FREE to distribute this content as long as you pass it along in it's entirety with all links in place pointing to original urls. Give credit where credit is due and use this to build other people up. Thanks for playing and thanks for passing this along. Jeff Fuson

Roaring Lambs?

Salt, Light, Impact ... that's the Kingdom of God.
Preserve, guide, build ... that's the Kingdom way.
Perservere, love, challenge ... those are Kingdom initiatives.

Roaring Lambs, as Bob Briner coined the unlikely combination of words, are to be about the business of impacting the culture right where they are. I couldn't agree more or feel more strongly about that than I do. That we are to be about the business of making disciples as we go.

When many of us read the 'Great Commission' and Jesus says 'Go and make disciples...' most of us think of going somewhere else to do that. But, I heard one preacher say that a better interpretation of that passage is 'Since you are going anyway, why don't you make disciples along the way?' Now, that makes a lot of sense for Rising Leaders because you're going anyway. You're on the move anyway. So, Jesus says, 'Hey, while you're out there be salt and light and make disciples.'

I ran across Bob Briner's website dedicated to 'Roaring Lambs' earlier today and noticed that they had leadership lessons. I've read through several of them and although I believe that the author 's-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s' some of the Biblical references to make them support a point he'd like to get across that there's still something to be learned from these lessons. So, I'm passing the Roaring Lions Leadership Lessons link to you for your growth.

Hey, I'm hammering away on some great ideas for Rising Leaders and I'd love to have you join us in building THE ONLINE COMMUNITY for RISING LEADERS. Just drop an email to me and we'll talk about where Rising Leader Alliance is headed and how you can benefit and take part in that.

You can order Bob Briner's Book, Roaring Lambs from nearly any bookstore. Enjoy.
Please let me know what you think of the book, the leadership links from the roaring lamb website, and whatever else is on your mind regarding growing stronger as a Rising Leader.

Roar you little lamb!
Jeff Fuson


p.s. If you are a 'rising leader' who's excited about advancing the Kingdom of God, then you need to RUN to Rising Leader Alliance.com and splash around a lot! Join the community, sign up for FUEL, grab some cool tools, maybe even post your story so that other leaders will be inspired by what God is doing in your life!

p.p.s. If you lead an organization that could use an ENERGY INJECTION then consider bringing me in to do a Custom Crafted Training Experience for you. I'm launching some very cool Adventure Training and Action Learning Experiences that you and your team could benefit from. Drop an email to me and we can talk more.

p.p.p.s. Host a Daddy Power (tm) Event at your church to encourage the Dads in your congregation to excel at their most important task -- being 'DADDY'. Drop me a email to learn more.

p.p.p.p.s. Okay last one! Feel FREE to distribute this content as long as you pass it along in it's entirety with all links in place pointing to original urls. Give credit where credit is due and use this to build other people up. Thanks for playing and thanks for passing this along. Jeff Fuson