Category: Mentoring

My Story: From Fear to Faith to an UnFolding Future

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring

RJD I have much to be thankful for my father who grew up in a harsh environment, left school at a very early age and then with great determination and courage sacrificially worked hard to provide for our family. For him, life was a great battle full of challenges, injustices and opposing forces. I remember him impressing on me to be careful not to “stick my neck out”, or it could get chopped off. Such was life.

I remember my father teaching me to drive a car. Before we started, he told me how I would be setting out on roads that were filled with dangerous drivers who could cause serious …

ILLUSIONS AND DISILLUSIONMENT……in a fallen world.

Rod Denton in Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring

imagesWY2GRLEP Disillusionment – A feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.

“But Jesus would not entrust Himself to them, for He knew all people” John 2:24

One of the hardest lessons I have ever had to learn is not to be disillusioned with people who disappoint me. And as I read of the gospels of Jesus, I find that He had the same disappointments, particularly in the days before His death on the cross.

On the night Jesus was betrayed, we read that He was deeply distressed and troubled and asked Peter, James and John to keep watch …

CONVERGENCE…….The Pearl of Great Price

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring, Resources

Pearl in oyster

As I reflect on my emergence as a leader over many years, I can discern a personal Time-Line that has progressed through various developmental phases which has given me perspective and the ability to see my present situation at any time in terms of my whole lifetime. In addition it has given me a sense of God given purpose which has guided me when making strategic career decisions along the way.

This has led me to believe that leaders are always emerging over a lifetime. Studies reveal that our most productive decades may be found in our fifties, sixties and seventies. This of itself does not guarantee that leaders will …

WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE (94) “PASTOR YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD”

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Evangelism, Leadership, Mentoring

Rod Denton Induction at Elizabeth Church of Christ_2012

Sometime after I had finished pastoring in my last church, as I was walking through my neighbourhood, I sense the Lord impressing upon me these words, “Don’t forget Rod, that you are still a pastor in your neighbourhood.” These words have stayed with me and brought to mind the words of Jesus when He said we are the light of the world and the salt of the earth and His witnesses in the world in which we live, in our neighbourhood, school, workplace, local shopping centre, extended family or wherever the world in which we live takes us.

With this in mind, as pastors in our neighbourhood, Sue and I…….…