Tamika Phai Mills's Blog – May 2009 Archive (4)

True love is God’s kind of love. This is a love that protects, cherishes the person loved. It is agape love. Here is what the Bible says about true love:

"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned."

~ Song of Solomon 8:7



There is a remedy for most diseases. There is a tonic that makes you younger. There is a heavenly substance that makes you more beautiful and… Continue

According to God’s word, when you become a Christian, a part of your new creation is the development of new attitudes — your attitude should become like that of Jesus. The Bible says, "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:" (Philippians 2:5). "You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off the old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds." (Ephesians 4:22 NIV)



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Through the years I've learned that leadership actually has many faces. The man or woman in whom I'd spotted leadership potential simply had a different style of leading than the more common leadership type to which he or she had compared himself or herself. Over time, as his or her style of leadership fell into sync with an appropriate leadership need in his church, he or she became a high-impact lay leader.



Different leaders often lead with dramatically different styles. As I can… Continue

Eph 4:11-16 (NKJV) “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, (12) for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, (13) till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;



A Pastor is one of Christ’s five office gifts to the Church. Yes, pastoring is a gift... and a… Continue