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Protected: When Leadership Makes Truth Too Expensive

Domineering leadership does more than wound people. When telling the truth becomes expensive, people begin editing reality, Witnesses for Reality stop testifying, and leaders can become increasingly blind…

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When the Problem Becomes the Pattern

Many couples believe they are repeatedly fighting about money, children, work, sex, or household responsibilities when the deeper problem is the pattern that develops around those disagreements. Decades…

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Your Wife Is Not the Enemy

The words we speak to our wives help create the relational climate of our marriages. A husband cannot control his wife's character, but he is responsible for what…

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“The mature Christian learns to hold together what Scripture holds together.”
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“You want to look around and realize you have already built them.”
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“Become replaceable as quickly as responsible development allows.”
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Protected: When Leadership Makes Truth Too Expensive

Domineering leadership does more than wound people. When telling the truth becomes expensive, people begin editing reality, Witnesses for Reality stop testifying,…

24 min read
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When the Problem Becomes the Pattern

Many couples believe they are repeatedly fighting about money, children, work, sex, or household responsibilities when the deeper problem is the pattern…

21 min read
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Your Wife Is Not the Enemy

The words we speak to our wives help create the relational climate of our marriages. A husband cannot control his wife's character,…

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“The goal is not replication of personality. It is multiplication of capability and character.”
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“Propensity is neither destiny nor mere possibility. It is a real directional tendency.”
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“Your personality is an instrument of your leadership. It is not the definition of healthy culture.”
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“One of the easiest mistakes a new leader can make is remodeling the organization around his personality and calling it cultural improvement.”
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“Difference is not a defect in the design; it is part of the design.”
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“Your spouse may need to mature. Your spouse may need to change. Your spouse may need to repent. But your spouse does not need to grow up to become you.”
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“Personality describes how someone naturally tends to behave. Character reveals whether someone behaves truthfully, lovingly, responsibly, and faithfully.”
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“Fear affects every personality, but it does not wear the same clothing.”
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“God did not make other people badly because He did not make them like you.”
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“Difference is not deficiency.”
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The DISC Model of Human Behavior

The DISC Model of Human Behavior gives us a practical language for understanding how people naturally communicate, make decisions, approach work, respond to change, and relate to others.…

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“Interaction with people is not necessarily care for people.”
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A Preacher Is Not Necessarily a Pastor

Preaching, teaching, shepherding, and leading overlap, but they are not the same competencies. Churches can easily mistake visible preaching ability for pastoral competence—and pastors can make the same…

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“Personality helps explain our initial response; it does not excuse an irresponsible one.”
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“Character takes the strengths of personality and places them under the stewardship of love, wisdom, courage, and truth.”
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“Personality helps explain what may make a decision difficult for us. It does not excuse us from making it.”
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“Personality influences how behavior is expressed; character determines what we choose to do with the personality we have been given.”
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“Learning someone’s personality gives us influence. Influence creates responsibility.”
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“Understanding personality is not the destination. It is a tool that helps us see people more clearly and love them more faithfully.”
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“We must never demand that someone repent for having a different personality. We must also never allow someone to call sin a personality difference.”
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“Our differences were not a manufacturing error.”
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“The danger is not the personality blend itself. The danger is unmanaged confusion.”
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“Personality affects the manner in which we act. Character reveals the moral quality of what we choose.”
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“Dominant people do not need to become less capable. They need to learn that people are not obstacles standing between them and the objective. People are part of the objective.”
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