Sold Out Live

Baptist College for Leadership is starting its classes for the First Block (June 9 to July 31, 2009) tomorrow and below is a list of the subjects being offered and their respective instructors for the First Block of Academic Year 2009-2010.

Block 1 (AY 2009-2010)

Old Testament Survey 1
Personal Evangelism
Personal Spiritual Development
Survey of Theology 1
Music Theory 1
Emotional Health
Expository Preaching
Youth Ministry Concepts
Anthropology

The experience that David gained during his shepherding days led him to run rings around Goliath when they faced each other. It was his competence that God used to give him the victory in that battle. But David never depended on his skills when he faced the giant but showed humility and depended upon God alone. He did everything for God and gave credit to God when he won the battle.

As leaders, let us not depend on our own skills and capabilities. Let us not magnify our own efforts but let us always be dependent upon God by spending more time in prayer. Remember, the battle is the Lord’s!

1 Peter 1:6-7 “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”

This passage was originally written by the apostle Peter to believers in Asia who were suffering persecution. So when he mentioned the words “suffer grief in all kinds of trials”, the kind of suffering and trials he was talking about was something that involved life and death for many of the believers. The persecution of the Christians during the time of the Roman empire was so grave that Paul had to write the believers and encourage them.

The encouragement of Paul in this passage may also be useful for us who are suffering even in a slightly easier situation. And if the situation is as grave as the life and death situation that the believers Peter addressed were in, then this passage is all the more applicable.

May our faith be proven genuine and result in the praise, glory and honor of Christ!

Have you been feeling depressed lately? Is life feeling like you are just running daily on treadmills, just going round and round and without end?

Maybe your life has lost its purpose. You see your purpose is directly proportional to your motivation in life. Without a purpose, there is no reason for you to get up in the morning. Find the purpose for your life and get the motivation you need.

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Total Detox - this is a web site about detoxification and cleansing

Rapid Debt Reduction Strategies - If you are in debt, learn principles here on how to get out of debt

Marriage and Beyond - a site that talks about marriage, parenting, family, etc.

Know Auto Repair Principles - learn how to repair your own car through this site

If you have been blogging for a while then I suppose you must are aware that you can get paid to post blog entries. These are called sponsored or paid posts. You see there are advertisers, usually owners of web sites or they are known online as publishers, who are looking for bloggers to write 50 to 350-word blog entries which will include one to three links to their web site or to a page in their web site and they are willing to pay for each blog post.

As bloggers, how can these advertisers be found? Well, the good news is there are companies in the internet, like PayingPost.com, which acts as a third party that goes between bloggers and advertisers. They have a list of advertisers or publishers and they are looking for bloggers who have a blog or blogs that would fit the requirements that their advertisers are looking for.

So, the key for bloggers is to prepare their blog to become qualified for companies like PayingPost.com. There are certain statistics that companies like this one look for. One is the Google Page Rank. This is usually updated by Google quarterly. There is also the Alexa rank, and the goal is to become part of the top 100,000 blogs. The Alexa rank is usually measured by traffic. Technorati authority is another statistic that these companies look at. This measures the backlinks (number of sites linking to your blog).

As online marketing has become one of the least expensive forms of marketing or advertising, and as the battle for ranking in the natural serach engine results continue, this method of making money will most likely not die down easily. And it is not difficult to jump into the band wagon with other bloggers, the thing is you just have to be persistent and creative at the same time.

As leaders develop a trusting relationship with people at the one-on-one level they must be trustworthy. Then, they are ready for team development through empowerment. Effective leaders working at the team, or community, level realize that to be good stewards of the energy and efforts of those committed to work with them, they must honor the power of diversity and acknowledge that none is as smart as all of us.