Tom Harper, who serves as founder and publisher of BiblicalLeadership.com, CEO of Networld Media Group, and as an elder at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Ky., has released his newest book, Inner Threat: Combatting Christian Leadership’s Natural Enemy.
Inner Threat—a sequel to Through Colored Glasses—explores sin’s insidious impact in the workplace. The intent of the book, written as a novel, is to equip leaders for the internal battle every leader must wage, whether they lead in the marketplace, the church, or any type of organization. Harper reveals in the afterword how leaders can resist the dark reality Paul described in Romans 7:21: “Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.”
Writing books on leadership is not new for Harper. His other recent book, which is nonfiction, is Servant Leader Strong (2019); the Spanish version just released last month.
David Bowman, a leadership coach, consultant, and trainer, wrote the following review of Inner Threat, on BiblicalLeadership.com.
Tom Harper is a talented man and a premier business leader. He manages a website and newsletter for Christian leaders and is both a publisher and an author. His superior abilities in each of these realms is exemplary. . . .
Harper’s latest novel, Inner Threat: Combatting Christian Leadership’s Natural Enemy, is a true gift for leaders. He helps us see problems through the eyes and experiences of others. We see what they do right, what they do wrong, where they lack clarity, and what is missing.
This novel stimulates a desire for more pages and more action for all the right reasons. I recently completed another tome of over 800 wearying pages. Despite the book’s many accolades, I couldn’t help wishing for a manuscript briefer by half. Harper weaves a story a reader would enjoy if it were twice as long. Inner Threat was consumed in one flight from the Pacific Northwest back home to Texas.
This book will help you identify and address those little things that have a way of becoming bigger things and sometimes even disastrous things. Wouldn’t it be nice if more books followed such a formula?
This is a good book for a group of leaders to read and discuss together. Accountability relationships could be established and problems solved before they begin. Each group member could help the others become a leader who does the right thing first time and every time.
Inner Threat is published by Deep Water Books. Learn more about the book on the publisher’s website here.
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Registrants for the 2023 RENEW.org gathering will save big if they sign up before midnight Thursday. The National Gathering will take place April 25-26 at Traders Point Christian Church, Indianapolis, and feature David Young, Shondankeh Johnson, Jim Putman, Anthony Walker, and Aaron Brockett. “Super early bird” registration is $89 (but the cost ultimately will rise to $199). The theme is “Resilient: Standing Firm in a Hostile World.” For regular attendees, this marks a change in date and location from past gatherings. More information and registration access is available here.
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Mystic Striker, a senior guard on the Great Lakes Christian College women’s basketball team, is featured in a new article in the College Basketball Times. Striker, a member of the Assiniboine tribe who grew up on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, has undergone numerous trials in her young life, including the loss of a finger resulting from a hiking accident prior to her sophomore season. Still, Striker recently exceeded 1,000 points for a career and could finish with more than 500 rebounds.
“She seems to have relentless energy,” head coach CB Long told the magazine.
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Fund-raising for needed repairs to the First Christian Church Tower in Columbus, Ind., is within $350,000 of its $3.2 million goal, writes Tracy Souza, president and CEO of Heritage Fund—The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County, in the Republic newspaper.
A variety of partners—starting with the church—have thus far contributed to the project for the tower, which “has proudly stood over the Columbus skyline for decades and is arguably the most-used image of our community in photos, drawings and other representations,” Souza writes. “It is also an integral part of the First Christian Church campus and important to the congregation.”
We have written about FCC’s Tower previously, most recently in June 2021.
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The International Disaster Emergency Service (IDES) is seeking to hire for several positions: international projects manager, U.S. disaster response coordinator, communications specialist, and GAP specialist (helping provide food and relief supplies). Learn more and apply at IDES.org/careers.
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SonRise Christian Church of Marion County, Fla., has called Evan Sievert to serve as minister. Sievert, a senior at Johnson University Florida, will join the church full-time upon graduation this spring. SonRise is a 12-year-old congregation in Dunnellon Fla.
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Tim Tebow has released a Mission Possible One-Year Devotional “to find your mission and pursue a bolder, brighter, more fulfilling life—by building your faith every single day.” An alternative version of the devotional is for young readers. Learn more at TimTebow.com.
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