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Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson
  • About
  • Hope City Church
  • My Books
    • When Storms Speak
    • Dynamic Living in Desperate Times
    • Among Kings
    • A Perfect 10
    • I Am She
    • Conscience
    • Second in Command
    • Praying Through Sorrows
  • Recent Talks
  • Alexis’ Story
  • For Church Leaders
    • An overlooked picture of pastoral ministry
    • Death by comparison
    • Distracted on Saturday depressed on Sunday
    • Heart Punch
    • In praise of the jack-of-all-trades
    • Lost Causes
    • My new friend–a Maasai warrior and pastor from Kenya
    • Sticks and Stones
    • Success versus Faithfulness
    • Teachers, watch your words
    • When you’re feeling illegitimate
    • Why Church Leaders drop out of the race
    • Why Every Pastor Should Workout
    • Dreams versus contentment
    • Duck feathers and rhino skin
    • Goliath versus Bathsheba
    • Keep your head up (encouragement for pastors)
    • Preaching among lions (for pastors and ministry leaders)
    • The Blues Brothers
    • When the high road hurts—how to respond when people leave your ministry
    • The flip side of your gifts and talents
    • Solomon, on reading effectively
    • Do first things first
    • The world’s greatest job (for pastors and ministry leaders)
    • Your funeral script
    • Lonely at the top
    • Innate miracles
    • A barefoot Moses in Sinai
    • How the mighty have fallen
    • Letters from Crete–part 1
    • Letters from Crete–part 2
    • One of you is a devil!
    • Lost causes
    • Lost causes
  • Watch Sermons
  • 2-Minute Messages
Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson
  • Character, Creativity, Excellence, Faithfulness, reputation, Success, Worship

Hard work mistaken for talent

One of several books that I have  been perusing recently is Erwin McManus’ 2014 The Artisan Soul, wherein Erwin beautifully describes the interplay between hard work and talent. He writes: “Eventually art becomes craft. The combination of talent and passion…

  • Chris Jackson
  • October 20, 2018
  • Uncategorized

2-Minute Message: Spitting on the shame

  • Chris Jackson
  • October 17, 2018
  • 3 Comments
  • Boundaries, Character, Decision-making, Destiny, obedience, sin

Won’t Becomes Can’t

Anne Frank, whose Holocaust diary was posthumously published as the famed Diary of a Young Girl, stated, “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. We first make our choices. Then our choices make us.” Miss Frank was a mere fifteen…

  • Chris Jackson
  • October 1, 2018
  • 2 Comments
  • Uncategorized

2-Minute Message: Smelling like smoke

  • Chris Jackson
  • September 12, 2018
  • Uncategorized

The underused power of NO

“My name is no…my sign is no…my number is no…you need to let it go!” Don’t you love those words from Meghan Trainor’s song, “No”? It is one of my favorites because it is exactly how I want my daughters…

  • Chris Jackson
  • September 4, 2018
  • 2 Comments
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