Rev. Dr. Timothy Corbley, I. V. Dei

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Andy Stanley in “The Next Generation Leader” correctly identifies courage as central to leadership. One of the ways leadership courage expresses itself, he says, is in recognizing and declaring current reality—regardless of how embarrassing or discouraging it is. When a prominent pastor falls, the courageous around him or her will honestly and forthrightly communicate the truth of what has happened. Because being in the people-development business often means we have to get out of the keep-the-people-comfortable business. Courageous leaders recognize this as a critical character-development opportunity. A leadership failure is “ground zero” for anchoring the central values that Christ-followers are committed to live. –Kirk Kirlin, Novo Mission’s Activated Team, from the book “Leadership Courage,” more at https://lnkd.in/gpzvYkW #ActivatedTeams #NovoMission #leadership #courage #courageousleadership #leadershipcourage #Jesus #pastor #discipleship

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This video (https://lnkd.in/gK622Tqs) is an 8 minutes overview video on the book of Proverbs (from the Bible Project), which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. The book of Proverbs invites people to live with wisdom and in the fear of the Lord in order to experience the good life. Its literary design is a circular Eastern Mindset where a subject is brought up, another subject is brought up until the original subject comes up again. Western mindset is more linear where a good paragraph and chapter develops in great depth a subject before moving onto another. My book The Proverbs Project for Character Development in All Nations is a western mindset rewrite of Proverbs in a workbook fashion. There are 52 short chapters set up to teach a subject with everything Proverbs says on it then to encourage your exploration of the moral trait. Listen to this 8 minutes as it is excellent then also check out my book for developing this character in yourself, your child or your grandchild. https://lnkd.in/gjsiFk4C… https://lnkd.in/gh7-jPze

The Bible in Five Chapters The Bible can be an overwhelming book to pick up. With 66 individual books, dozens of authors, written over a thousand year span, in multiple languages, it's a lot. So I put together a video series working through the big story of the Bible, while also looking at five specific chapters. This five-part series will hopefully help you have a broader understanding of the Bible, while also feeling more confident to open up to any chapter and find yourself in the Story. If you'd like a handout with notes and discussion questions, let me know, and I can get that to you as well. https://lnkd.in/gWExJ9ai

This latest documentary short from the Seraphina Project challenges viewers to consider a world where technical solutions and scientific thinking replace political rhetoric in solving our most pressing issues. This thought-provoking video explores how global problems like climate change, pandemics, and economic inequality demand a unified, data-driven approach. It advocates for a radical reimagining of our economic systems, resource distribution, and societal structures, proposing a future where advanced AI and the scientific method guide decision-making. The video calls for a paradigm shift in how we view Earth and its resources, urging viewers to envision a world without borders, money, or war - where technology and human ingenuity create a truly equitable global society. Learn more about our vision for the future at THESERAPHINAPROJECT.com. *AI was used in some aspects of this video’s production. #resourcebasedeconomy #capitalismisntworking #newworldispossible #endoftheworld #climatechangesolutions #aiforgood #ethicalai #aifuture #futuresociety #SustainableFuture #OneEarth #theseraphinaproject #AIrevolution #utopianfuture #moneylesssociety

Protest is supposed to be uncomfortable Protest is about making us uncomfortable. And we need to remember that comfort isn’t good. We can like comfort, sure. Look for comfort. Try to comfort others. But it isn’t an inherent good. Comfort famously leads to lazy thinking and biased behavior. It can be the source of injustice as we maintain bad decisions. It leads to avoiding good things, preserving bad things, engaging in familiar habits, and refraining from growth. Treating comfort as an inherent good is one of our most common and disastrous practices. Protests make us uncomfortable. So when we treat comfort as good and worthy of protection, protests become “bad” and something to be fought. This isn’t an intellectual thing. Look at how we treat protests in the United States. Peaceful protests are treated as dangerous. Even when there is no threat of violence, they are treated like a threat of violence to the status quo. And the public safety response is often to create violence. To wage violence against the protestors. As we saw in Austin this week. The imbalance is palpable. But it isn’t sensible. The level of physically violent response to protest far exceeds the physical threat of any protest. This only makes sense when we consider the very concept of protest itself as threatening. And the violence inherently necessary to protect the people from change. Why do we indulge this wildly over-protective posture toward a sense of comfort? There is really only one answer. It is about authority. Protest disrupts more than a vague sense of comfort. It challenges our sense of authority and exposes the imbalance in our entire structure of government. When hundreds of people gather, then become thousands, growing toward millions, we see something far closer to the spirit of democracy than we feel in our representative government. And when a president of a university invites the National Guard onto campus armed for war, to ostensibly restore “comfort” by force, we see centralized authority. These attempts at “restoring order” are really about our discomfort with authority. And we hope that some soldiers can quite literally beat down the protest and make things “normal.” To restore our comfort. But this is impossible. We are replacing their comfort with ours. Literally beating and arresting protestors doesn’t create comfort for them. Nor does it actually restore it in the population. When people stoke fear of protests, that fear increases with the violence—as violence begets more violence—and more directly, doesn’t beget comfort! This is even more disturbing when the protest is about reducing the suffering of others. These students are protesting the genocide of a people. And the state’s response? To beat them. Focusing on comfort is a lie. It doesn’t stop the protests from happening, justify violence against protestors, or prevent us from being judged for allowing state-sanctioned violence against others. In is complete psycholo...

Many have pointed out the deep problems in the faith of American Christians, especially its accommodating complacency, which has resulted in the disinterest of younger generations. Prophets keep watch from the periphery and in subcommunities of resistance, which are not to be confused with churches. Because far too many subscribe to “imperial religion,” continue to speak the language of empire and do its bidding. It’s my latest at Good Faith Media. https://lnkd.in/eMrU-BhM

Serving As Christian Disciples, we are called to a life of serving God and other people. You are not alone, but part of a larger body where each member is called to perform a serving function. By serving others as a Christian Disciple, it shows unity and solidarity to those outside of the church who frequently accuse the church of infighting and “devouring one another”. Serving The Christian life is to be dynamic and active. The word “servant” is key in Scripture and is used at least 500 times in its various forms. When a Christian Disciple serves, God’s honour is released, and shows Jesus Christ’s beauty and glory, to those being served and to those watching. That is to be your motive for service. Serving is never to be about what you and I can get out of it. When that is the motive, God is not glorified. God’s glory and the total supremacy of Jesus over all things, is to be the goal in the life of all Christian Disciples. Spiritual Growth Comes From Serving If you desire to grow spiritually, then serve! For spiritual growth comes from serving rather than you being served. This is because what you give in service of God and others, your faith grows and Jesus Christ gives back even more to you. Jesus speaking in Matthew 25v15-30 tells of the rewards for faithful service and the penalties for being faithless. When you serve others, it is a sign of your trust and faith in God. Serving Reflects Jesus Christ’s Life By serving, we reflect in some small way the greatest servant of all, Jesus Christ, who came to serve and give his very life for others (Mark 10v45). As a Christian Disciple, you are In serving others fulfilling the command that Jesus gave to love God and love others. Showing love and serving others achieves this aim of total obedience to Jesus. Salvation is not through Your Service! However a warning! Don’t be led into the trap of thinking that your service will lead to your salvation, as some will say. It will not! The only reason you have salvation, is because of the service of Jesus Christ, who was fully God and fully human. Your acts of service would never be able to pay that price, but your acts of service will help point others to Jesus, who paid the price for your salvation and others. So as you go from here, go to serve others and by doing so, you will also be showing your service to Jesus Christ your Master. Thank you. Right mouse click or tap here to save & download as a mp3 file

The latest blog from the author of Battle Cry Good vs Evil, about the need to stop labeling and identifying individuals by the world's identification and labeling system.

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In this talk titled "Face Fear Together" we discuss how to overcome fear, lessons from the indigenous people of the Amazon, how we can face the future without fear together. We talk about being there for others, about the power of community, of not going it alone, being vulnerable and accepting help for others, about a system built on mutual respect, a community where all the people are treated with genuine concern for their well-being. When life and death depends on the help of others community builds a shield of protection. It is about visualizing our support system when we are afraid. It is also about changing our mindset from being self-centered to being other centered, to remembering we are all people with the same needs, desires, hopes and dreams, that in order to heal divisiveness we need to remember that "we the people" means together. Fear comes from being separate stand alone. The scriptural reference this week is about helping others and being a friend to each other.