by Scott Ball | Mar 14, 2016 | Encouragement, Leadership, Pump Up, Teaching
Editor’s note: When I asked my colleague Tim Abraham to write what God put on his heart, I never expected a piece on politics. And this isn’t a site about politics. It’s a site about leadership. That said, journey through this wonderfully written...
by Scott Ball | Mar 10, 2016 | Encouragement, Heal Up, Teaching
Across all nationalities and all generations and all religions, suffering is the common human experience. For the past couple of days I’ve been writing a message that I’ll preach soon on the relationship between glory and suffering, but before I could get...
by Scott Ball | Nov 3, 2015 | Encouragement, Leadership, Podcast, Strategic Leadership, Teaching, Technology, Train Up
It’s here, friends. The Church Leadership Matters Podcast has officially launched! The Church Leadership Matters Podcast is a show were we discuss the things that matter to leaders because your leadership matters. This interview-style show focuses on topics that...
by Scott Ball | Oct 8, 2015 | Encouragement, Heal Up, Leadership, Teaching
Our first three and a half years in church planting centered around the insanity of setting-up and tearing-down in a YMCA. For the first 18 months, my wife and I lived forty-five minutes away (thirty minutes if you drive like me), and every Sunday was physically...
by Scott Ball | Oct 7, 2015 | Encouragement, Leadership, Teaching, Train Up
The Bible is intense. It’s scary. It’s violent. It’s dark. It’s tough. It’s challenging. It’s cumbersome. It’s not easily dismissed. It’s confusing. It’s divisive. It’s unsettling. And, it’s hard. Yet when you ask any Christian which book they would turn to when they...
by Scott Ball | Sep 27, 2015 | Encouragement, Heal Up, Sunday Is For Sermons, Teaching, Train Up
It’s one of the most bizarre conversations in Scripture. Abraham speaks with the Lord on the side of a mountain looking down upon Sodom and Gomorrah, knowing that doom is coming. Abraham pleads to God to spare the city for the sake of his nephew Lot. The...