skip to main | skip to sidebar

The Leaders Poole

A blog for leadership inspiration, training and encouragement, especially for those involved in Christian leadership. If you have any links or articles that you think should be on this blog please email them to me at info@gatewaychurch.me

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Beating temptation

Brilliant article on beating temptation by Rick Warren here.

Posted by Matthew Hosier at 22:10

0 comments:

Newer Post Older Post Home

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Blog Archive

► 2011 (17)
- ► December (1)
  - Handled
- ► November (1)
  - Lessons Learnt
- ► October (2)
  - Keep on Learning
  - Nothing Doing
- ► September (2)
  - Preacher/Politician?
  - A LITTLE LEAVEN
- ► July (1)
  - Christian Cliché
- ► June (2)
  - Keeping an Even Keel
  - Piper Meets Warren
- ► May (3)
- ► February (1)
  - A Sticky Message
- ► January (4)

► 2010 (40)
- ► November (2)
  - Book Review: Risking the Truth
  - Preachers on Preaching: Matt Hatch
- ► October (7)
- ► September (6)
- ► June (9)
- ► May (1)
  - Why the New Atheists are Shallow
- ► April (4)
- ► March (3)
- ► February (3)
  - Influence
- ► January (5)

▼ 2009 (102)
- ► December (2)
- ► November (4)
- ► October (2)
- ▼ September (7)
- ► August (2)
- ► July (4)
- ► June (19)
- ► May (14)
- ► April (11)
- ► March (9)
- ► February (10)
- ► January (18)

► 2008 (39)
- ► December (14)
- ► November (14)
- ► October (11)

10 Questions Archive

Dave Smith
Jonathan LeTocq
Mike Gunn
Tom Shaw
Steven van Rhyn
Chris Wienand
Rory Dyer
Bryan Mowrey
Steve Tibbert
Darrin Patrick
David Stroud
Joel Virgo
Scott Marques
Tope Koleoso
Pete Cornford
Matt Hatch
PJ Smyth
Mbonisi Malaba

Subscribe via email

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Leading Blogs: Some Christian, some not - read with discernment

EdStetzer.com

Thursday is for Thinkers: Lindsey Nobles - LAST WEEK Kelly Minter, author of Nehemiah shared about her recent trip to Brazil and the faith displayed by jungle pastors there. THIS WEEK Plea...
1 hour ago
Perry Noble | Leadership, Vision & CreativityPerry Noble | Leadership, Vision & Creativity

Ten Facts Men Should Consider About Their Wife! - #1 – Before she was your wife she was God’s daughter…and He is VERY concerned about how someone treats His girl! #2 – Women are responders, so if there is ...
5 hours ago
Nelson Searcy - Renegade Pastor - Church Leader Insights - Church Growth and Evangelism

Lessons from “Engage” – How to Inspire Your Congregation to Action - Tweet Buy a single copy here (Save 32%) Buy bulk copies here (Save 50%) What happens in your services is of no use to your people if they don’t walk away w...
6 hours ago
Seth's Blog

Ashamed to not know - Society changes when we change what we're embarrassed about. In just fifty years, we've made it shameful to be publicly racist. In just ten years, someone wh...
7 hours ago
Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog @ LeadershipNow

First Look: Leadership Books for March 2012 - Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March. The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business ...
9 hours ago
What's Best Next

6 Characteristics of Knowledge Work - Here are 6 great points I recently came across, summarizing Peter Drucker on what makes knowledge work different from (and more challenging than) manual wo...
14 hours ago
Learnings @ Leadership Network

The Difference in Learning for the Two Halves of Life - I have been musing lately on how uniquely different learning is in the two halves of life. My teachers have been two brilliantly researched and deeply i...
23 hours ago
UK Polling Report

Ipsos MORI/Reuters – CON 35%, LAB 41%, LD 12% - The last of February’s regular monthly polls has rolled in – Ipsos MORI for Reuters have topline figures, with changes from January, of CON 35%(-3), LAB 41...
1 day ago
Out of Ur

Ur Video: Dave Kraft on Celebrity Pastors -
We should be measuring community impact rather than the size of our audience.

1 day ago
Steve Tibbert Leadership Blog

A vision health warning! - Vision is a powerful leadership tool - but it should come with a health warning. It needs to be handled with wisdom and it requires stamina! *Vision, and...
2 days ago
All Things Workplace

Presenting? Master The Segue - Help People Follow You: Create Transitions "We'll be back after this message from..." There's a reason why TV and radio announcers use that line. It's desi...
2 days ago
Feeding 5,000 is no picnic...

Teams that work - pt 14. Pulling together or apart? - Selfishness and bad attitude There are few more difficult members to have in a team than those who have their own hidden agendas. The selfish footballer wh...
2 days ago
Books @ Leadership Network Blog

Favorite Quote: In Pursuit of Great AND Godly Leadership - In this short video, author Mike Bonem responds to the question, "What is your favorite quote from In Pursuit of Great AND Godly Leadership?" To order y...
3 days ago
Acts 29 Blog

We Aren’t a Denomination, but We Love Denominations - Here’s one of the most common questions we get: "Is Acts 29 a denomination?" We are not a denomination and have no intention of becoming a denomination. Bu...
1 week ago
Leadership Challenge

Leadership Lessons On-The-Go? We Have an App for That! - Piano players with a desire to improve their skills must practice. Actors who aspire to reach a higher level of performance must rehearse. Basketball players...
1 week ago
Productivity501

Capsul8 – Preview for Productivity501 Readers - When you get a newspaper, you can cut out an article and come back and read the same thing later. It doesn’t change after you read it. The web isn’t like t...
4 weeks ago
How to Change the World

Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK - Over the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pi...
5 weeks ago
Lead Quietly

Are you agreeable? I’m sorry to tell you bad news…. - As quiet leaders, we pride ourselves in personal qualities like trust, straightforwardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, and tender-mindedness. These q...
2 months ago
Unashamed Workman

Advertisement - Apparently there have been some advertisements appearing at the bottom of Unashamed Workman blog posts. A kind brother informed me of this by email, and ex...
4 months ago
The Practice of Leadership

Book Review: Leadership is Dead - Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It is by Jeremie Kubicek (@jeremiekubicek), President and CEO of GiANT Impact, a leadership development organ...
6 months ago

The Hosier Blogs

Matthew Hosier

WHEN MARRIAGE IS NOT - David Cameron’s announcement of a consultation period aimed to lead to the legalization of gay marriage, and the support for this from the leaders of all t...
1 day ago
The Sermon Poole

Messy Church, Part 2: Messed Up Together - 1 Corinthians 1:1-17 In a nutshell: The church in Corinth was a mess. It was made up of people who were acting far too much like citizens of the city of Co...
2 years ago
The Worship Poole

Get in the Game! - If you have found the past five weeks of notes helpful, you can now download the complete set of notes as a PDF here.
2 years ago
Where The Hell Are You Going?

44 - Josh and Jack both put down their drinks and looked at Stuart, who was sitting there with a stupid grin all over his face. “Just sayin’ boys! Don’t let it ...
2 years ago

About Me

Matthew Hosier: I am the lead elder at Gateway Church, Poole, married to Grace, and father of four beautiful daughters.

View my complete profile