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Leadership Lifelines: Prayer, Fasting, and Flexibility

How discipline and commitment prove essential in your leadership ministry.

Andy Stanley said, “Leadership is stewardship, and you are accountable,” while speaking to a group of leaders at Catalyst Atlanta in 2006. This quote absolutely resonated with me, because we can forget that as leaders we are responsible for our own leadership. Not only are we accountable to ourselves and those we lead, but most importantly we are accountable to the God that called us to lead.

Leadership in its most basic definition is the action or ability to lead a group or organization. Having been in leadership in education, business, the nonprofit sector, and ministry, I know all too well the truth of this statement. You are only a leader if someone is following you, so we need to give attention to how we lead, the impact of our leadership, and the health of our leadership.

Leading effectively requires discipline, and I have learned I am most effective when I discipline myself. As a leader, I have found three disciplines that help me lead well and avoid leadership pitfalls and burnout. I have used these in every area I have been called to lead. These lifelines have proven viable, having saved my life and the lives entrusted to me. Through the lifelines of prayer, fasting, and flexibility, my leadership has been enhanced in multiple ways. Albeit, prayer, fasting, and flexibility are disciplines, I consider them lifelines because of the life-giving power they have provided.

The lifeline of prayer

We know the power in prayer. We can perform a historical analysis of scripture and see many of the leaders God used were given to prayer. Prayer is what brings our will into alignment with God’s will. Whether God calls us to lead in church or the marketplace, our prayer lives are essential to our success as leaders. ...

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

How to know whether to leave or stay in your ministry context.

“You’re called in until you’re called out.” I’ll never forget the words my mentor spoke over me when I found myself at a crossroads, wondering if I should stay or go in ministry.

My calling in had been clear: after four years of teaching high school English, I knew God was calling me out of the traditional classroom and into full-time outreach ministry. Sitting in the back of an auditorium one night, I felt the speaker’s words directed solely toward me. If you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life, maybe this is God’s way of directing you into full-time work ministry.

Two and a half years later, I stood at another crossroads: this time, I wondered whether I should return to the classroom, accept a ministry position close to home, or pursue another ministry position hundreds of miles away from home. Soon enough, I heard the words, clear as day: You’re free, my dear. You’re free! Free to follow my heart, I pursued the position eight hundred miles away from home and didn’t look back for another six years—until it really was time for me to go.

By that point, I clearly felt called out. Even though saying goodbye felt like a wrench to the heart, my time was over. Although the pain of leaving sometimes overwhelmed the joy of staying, a single choice to go remained. This time, God didn’t whisper words of clarity to me as much as God sat in silence beside me.

I’d been called out, just as I’d been called in.

Perhaps like me, you find yourself at a similar crossroads in ministry, wondering whether you should stay or go in your particular ministry context. You love the church, and you don’t have to think too far back to remember that ...

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Structure evolution of electrochromic devices from 'face-to-face' to 'shoulder-by-shoulder'

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01132K, Paper
Xiufeng Tang, Guoxin Chen, Zhixin Li, Hua Li, Zehui Zhang, Qinghao Zhang, Zhijun Ou, Yongxian Li, Chengjian Qi, Jianyi Luo
A traditional electrochromic device contains at least five functional layers, where the electrochromic film exactly faces the counter electrode with matching size and color. This face-to-face structure is cumbersome for...
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Dependence of electromagnetic interference shielding ability of conductive polymer composite foams with hydrophobic properties on cellular structure

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00987C, Paper
Biao Zhao, Ruoming Wang, Yang Li, Yumei Ren, Xiao Li, Xiaoqin Guo, Rui Zhang, Chul B. Park
The introduction of a cellular structure in conductive polymer composites is supposed to be an effective way to ameliorate the electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding properties.
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Customizing coaxial stacking VS2 nanosheets for dual-band microwave absorption with superior performance in the C- and Ku-bands

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5923-5933
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00763C, Paper
Deqing Zhang, Huibin Zhang, Junye Cheng, Hassan Raza, Tingting Liu, Bin Liu, Xuewei Ba, Guangping Zheng, Guohua Chen, Maosheng Cao
Engineering microwave absorption materials with absorption in multiple bands and strong absorption performance in the C-band remains challenging to date.
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Low-threshold stimulated emission in perovskite quantum dots: single-exciton optical gain induced by surface plasmon polaritons at room temperature

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5847-5855
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00198H, Paper
Litao Zhao, Yu Chen, Xiantong Yu, Xiao Xing, Jinquan Chen, Jun Song, Junle Qu
The surface plasmon polaritons induced single-exciton lasing of lead halide perovskite QDs in room temperature may provide a new concept for the further design of low threshold stimulated emission colloidal nanocrystal lasers.
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Multi-shelled upconversion nanostructures with enhanced photoluminescence intensity via successive epitaxial layer-by-layer formation (SELF) strategy for high-level anticounterfeiting

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5692-5703
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00902D, Paper
Andrew J. Evangelista, Mariia Ivanchenko, Alline F. Myers, Lisa N. McAnulty, Gillian K. M. Payne, Hao Jing
Multi-shelled upconversion nanoparticles with significantly enhanced emission intensity are synthesized via successive epitaxial layer-by-layer formation (SELF) strategy and used in dual-modal anticounterfeiting and latent fingerprint detection.
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Additive-controlled synthesis of monodisperse single crystalline gold nanoparticles: interplay of shape and surface plasmon resonance

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01748E, Paper
Felizitas Kirner, Pavel Potapov, Johannes Schultz, Jessica Geppert, Magdalena Müller, Guillermo Gonzalez, Sebastian Sturm, Axel Lubk, Elena V. Sturm (née Rosseeva)
We introduce a three-step seed-mediated synthesis for single crystalline gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) stabilized by hexadecylpyridinium chloride (CPC) in variable sizes with an adjustable ratio of the cubic and octahedral...
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印度光辉永驻 / 编辑曼尼莎 杜贝(Maneesha Dube).

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My time among the whites: notes from an unfinished education / Jennine Capó Crucet

Dewey Library - PS3603.R83 A6 2019




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Zora and Langston: a story of friendship and betrayal / Yuval Taylor

Dewey Library - PS3515.U789 Z93 2019




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Catfishing on CatNet / Naomi Kritzer

Dewey Library - PS3611.R58 C38 2019




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The hush / John Hart

Hayden Library - PS3608.A78575 H87 2018




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In West Mills: a novel / De'Shawn Charles Winslow

Hayden Library - PS3623.I66425 I5 2019




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How I became one of the invisible / David Rattray ; edited by Chris Kraus ; expanded and with an introduction by Robert Dewhurst ; afterword by Rachel Kushner

Hayden Library - PS3568.A783 H68 2019




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Arias / Sharon Olds

Dewey Library - PS3565.L34 A6 2019




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Aiiieeeee!: an anthology of Asian American writers / edited by Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Wong ; foreword by Tara Fickle

Dewey Library - PS508.A8 A4 2019




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Publishing blackness: textual constructions of race since 1850 / George Hutchinson and John Young, editiors

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Elizabeth Bishop and the literary archive / edited by Bethany Hicok

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Under Nushagak bluff: a novel / Mia Heavener

Dewey Library - PS3608.E28377 U53 2019




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Inheritance: a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love / Dani Shapiro

Dewey Library - PS3569.H3387 Z46 2019




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The Oxford handbook of Charles Brockden Brown / edited by Philip Barnard, Hilary Emmett, and Stephen Shapiro

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Letters from Max: a book of friendship / Sarah Ruhl & Mark Ritvo

Hayden Library - PS3618.I8 Z48 2018




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Shades of gray: writing the new American multiracialism / Molly Littlewood McKibbin

Dewey Library - PS231.R32 M45 2018




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Neo-passing: performing identity after Jim Crow / edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young ; foreword by Gayle Wald ; afterword by Michele Elam

Hayden Library - PS169.P35 N46 2018




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Implications of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity: proceedings of a workshop / Anne Johnson and Emily Grumbling, rapporteurs ; Computer Science and Telecommunications Board ; Intelligence Community Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physic

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Recent findings in intelligent computing techniques: proceedings of the 5th ICACNI 2017. / Pankaj Kumar Sa, Sambit Bakshi, Ioannis K. Hatzilygeroudis, Manmath Narayan Sahoo, editors

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Trusted computing and information security: 13th Chinese conference, CTCIS 2019, Shanghai, China, October 24-27, 2019 / Weili Han, Liehuang Zhu, Fei Yan (eds.)

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Trusted computing and information security: 13th Chinese Conference, CTCIS 2019, Shanghai, China, October 24-27, 2019, Revised selected papers / Weili Han, Liehuang Zhu, Fei Yan (eds.)

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Data management, analytics and innovation: proceedings of ICDMAI 2019. / Neha Sharma, Amlan Chakrabarti, Valentina Emilia Balas, editors

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Computer Security: ESORICS 2019 International Workshops, CyberICPS, SECPRE, SPOSE, and ADIoT, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, September 26-27, 2019, Revised selected papers / Sokratis Katsikas, Frédéric Cuppens, Nora Cuppens, Costas Lambrinoudakis

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Intelligent computing and communication: proceedings of 3rd ICICC 2019, Bangalore / Vikrant Bhateja, Suresh Chandra Satapathy, Yu-Dong Zhang, V. N. Manjunath Aradhya, editors

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Estimates for differential operators in half-space / Igor V. Gel'man, Vladimir G. Maz'ya ; translated from the German by Darya Apushkinskaya

Hayden Library - QA329.4.G4513 2019




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Networking and computation: technology, modeling and performance / Thomas G. Robertazzi, Li Shi

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Ambient communications and computer systems: RACCCS 2019 / Yu-Chen Hu, Shailesh Tiwari, Munesh C. Trivedi, K.K. Mishra, editors

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Web, artificial intelligence and network applications: proceedings of the Workshops of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (WAINA-2020) / Leonard Barolli, Flora Amato, Francesco Moscato, Tomoya Enokido, M

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Short-range micro-motion sensing with radar technology / edited by Changzhan Gu and Jaime Lien

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Big data-enabled internet of things / edited by Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan, Samee U. Khan and Albert Y. Zomaya

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Shumba lessons DVD.

Browsery DVD MT654.M38 S58 2014




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Show boat / San Francisco Opera ; music by Jerome Kern ; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II ; based on the novel by Edna Ferber

Browsery DVD PN1997.2.S56 A1 2015




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Peter Pan: [a musical] based on the play by James M. Barrie / lyrics by Carolyn Leigh ; music by Mark Charlap ; additional music by Jule Styne ; 0additional lyrics by Betty Comden, Adolph Green ; a production of Showcase Productions, Inc

Browsery DVD PN199.77.P48 2015




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The passenger: opera in two acts / by Mieczysław Weinberg ; libretto by Alexander Medvedev ; after the novel by Zofia Posmysz ; Bregenz Festival, from the Festspielhaus, in co-production with Wielki Teatr Warsaw, English National Opera London, and Teatro

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Blood on the fields: Wynton Marsalis / produced and directed by Susan Shaw

Browsery DVD ML3930.M327 B56 2016




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Lullaby of Birdland: the Shearing touch / produced and directed by Jill Marshall

Browsery DVD M1366.S54 L855 2016




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Tatiana / a ballet by John Neumeier ; after "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin ; music by Lera Auerbach ; choreography, staging, sets, lighting, John Neumeier ; Hamburg Ballet-John Neumeier ; a co-production by Hamburgische Staatsoper GmbH/Ha

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Napoli: or, The fisherman and his bride / choreography, Nikolaj Hübbe and Sorella Englund after August Bournonville ; music, Edvard Helsted, H.S. Pauli, H.C. Lumbye and Louise Alenius ; the Royal Danish Theatre presents ; in coproduction with DR and

Browsery DVD GV1790.N373 N37 2015




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Einstein on the beach / an opera in four acts by Philip Glass/Robert Wilson ; produced by Pomegranate Arts, Inc., executive producer, Linda Brumbach, in partnership with le Festival d'automne et le Théâtre de la ville, with the support of P

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The Left-hander / Rodion Shchedrin ; a production by State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

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The jazz loft, according to W. Eugene Smith / WNYC Studies presents ; in association with Lumiere Productions ; written, produced, and directed by Sara Fishko ; producer, Calvin Scaggs

Browsery DVD ML3508.8 N49 2018