Category: Mentoring

WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE (31 – 40)

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

(31) “YOUR ATTITUDE DETERMINES YOUR LIFE”

There came a time in my life where I came to the sobering conclusion that if I lose my attitude, I will lose my ministry. So seriously did this insight concern me that I gave my wife permission to point out to me any time she noticed that my bad attitude was affecting my life and my ministry. The following are some things that I have learned about attitude:
* It is not what happens to you that can be controlled, it is what you think about what happens to you is the critical issue.
* My attitude is a choice that I make. …

CREATED by the CREATOR to live CREATIVELY

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

I never thought that I was a creative person. It just wasn’t in my personality. And then I read an article about schools that kept telling children to be creative while still colouring in neatly and accurately within the lines. The article explained that although we try to push our children to be creative using selective criteria, we are actually encouraging them and grading them to follow a rigid set of rules. Could this have been the environment in which I was educated?

Then it dawned on me that Jesus had a similar problem with the religious leaders of His day. It is possible that Jesus was the most creative …

WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE (102) “DON’T LET THE GOOD THINGS GET IN THE WAY OF THE BEST THINGS”

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring

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A palliative care nurse by the name of Bronnie Ware was highly qualified to write the book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. Interestingly, the number one regret she wrote was, “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”

And in these words, I was reminded of how being a “people pleaser” is one of the reasons why we can live our lives letting good things get in the way of the best things.

How important it is for each of us to be able to live our lives purposefully and be able to say as …

WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE (21 – 30)

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring

(21) “WE ALWAYS HAVE AN AUDIENCE OF ONE.”

My attitude to life was radically changed when I developed the conviction that in all of life I always had an audience of One. It meant that I was never alone, or that my standard of excellence could be compromised on unimportant occasions, or I could ignore the law of the land as long as I wasn’t in danger of being detected, or that integrity wasn’t a priority if the cashier had miscalculated my refund.
Further, it didn’t matter if I didn’t receive the feedback I was expecting for a job well done. For I am running a race “surrounded by …