This weekend will be the time that we set our clocks ahead one hour. A common memory tool is the phrase, “Spring Forward”. One year ago this week, my wife and I did exactly that. We made a significant decision to resign from our position as Senior Pastor in northwest [...] Read more »
I have met a lot of frustrated leaders and I have been one myself. Many things are frustrating about being a leader. People refuse to change, markets or demographics change, windows of opportunity are missed, resources are depleted and on and on the list goes. These things happen to everyone, [...] Read more »
Some years ago, my son Timothy returned home from a friends house and offered this interesting comment: “Dad, Mr.(friends father) is chock full of useless information.” I remember laughing out loud at the statement. From my son’s perspective, his friends dad knew things that did not benefit him other than [...] Read more »
Here are three thing I would like you to consider regarding Bill Leckie Ministries in 2014. Read more »
In my family we celebrated birthdays on the day of ones birth with perhaps a single gift and sometimes a cake. We were a family of modest means with four kids. As a result, I came into marriage to my wife Debra with a modest view of celebrating birthdays. They [...] Read more »
Debra and I closed out 2013 with a few weeks of celebrating the holidays and reflecting on all that we have to be grateful for. The past year has brought a great deal of change into our lives. We began the process of launching Bill Leckie Ministries in March and [...] Read more »
The first two steps in the Resolution Solution are Awareness of the need for change and Acceptance of our responsibility for that change. The first initiates the process and the second leads to our involvement in the process. The third step is Action. This is where it gets real. If [...] Read more »
Chances are that resolutions have been made, announced and abandoned already this year. This is the cycle of the failure to experience real change, that our culture encounters every new year. As Christians, we have the solution to break this cycle and we can experience success in the process of [...] Read more »
It’s that time again. You know, the time that people everywhere make resolutions for change in their lives as they enter into the new year. Of course, this also results with the usual failure rate that we seem to accept in our culture. We decide we need some changes, announce [...] Read more »
I enjoy football. If there is a game on t.v. regardless of the teams, I’ll watch it. Of course there are teams that I follow and identify with, but I enjoy the game of football. Over the years I have learned to appreciate the game as a whole. It wasn’t [...] Read more »