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About The Book
Imagine that you and your two best friends just boarded a flight to your destiny. You pull out work and become so engrossed that you are startled when the final approach to your destiny is announced. Looking around, your two friend’s seats are empty! They are no longer on the flight. Sound like fantasy?
Sadly, this story represents the statistics that only one in three modern leaders will finish their life journey and fulfill their purpose well. While some leaders will fulfill their divine destiny, some will limp to their life’s end, and others will fail miserably. There is a strategy to arrest this growing trend in leadership. The Uncommon Leader explores this strategy by examining:
- God’s plan and processes for developing a leader,
- How following Christ’s leadership style and being empowered by the Holy Spirit will
enable leaders to fulfill God’s design for their leadership, and
- The enemy’s counterplan to derail a leader’s life.
Every leader will benefit from The Uncommon Leader’s interactive format, which includes illustrative stories, insights, cautions, and personal reflection exercises. This is not a quick fix book, but rather a time-tested, winning strategy for finishing well.
About The Author
Dinah Hodgson
Speaker and ministry leader Dinah Hodgson was originally trained as a critical care nurse. At God’s leading, she attended Grand Canyon University’s Christian Leadership program and became an ordained Messenger Fellowship pastor. She continued her education, receiving a masters in Christian leadership from Primus University of Theology. She has served in a myriad of leadership roles within the local church as well as para-church ministries. She has spoken nationally and internationally. Dinah and John, her husband of forty-five years, enjoy time with their three adult children and spouses, and six grandchildren.
Quotes from The Uncommon Leader
A faithful and successful, godly life for a leader takes a lifetime of development with life training and work: circumstances—good and bad, successes and failures, and growing in the maturity and the wisdom of God. Only after years of fashioning your character and abilities through training and testing can the Lord trust any of us to make the impact He’s ultimately created us for.
Once I wasn’t just looking at the current circumstances and feeling out of sorts, and understood God’s design for boundaries, I embraced the preparatory work God was doing in me through the boundary that would set me up for success in the next phase of life.
Often, I have found that God’s shaping activities including tests, suffering, and obedience choices, required my acquiescence. The circumstances were not always painless or the choices simple to make, but in counting the cost of life with Christ, and without, my submission to the process became an easy decision.
As followers and disciples of Christ, we, too, are expected to learn our rabbi’s ways so intimately that those around us will know who we represent without actually seeing Christ.
Christ’s disciples received this gift of the Holy Spirit, which made all the difference in their lives and ministry. This same gift is promised to all who come to Christ. As leaders, it’s important to recognize how important this gift is and place high value on it.
Character is critical in God’s eyes because it reveals to others who we are. Character becomes part of the bedrock that gives us the secure footing we need to navigate through the challenges of life and the pressures of leadership.
There are so many things in our shadow that can lead us astray if we don’t vigilantly allow the Holy Spirit to divinely prune away our heart issues. The failings that ensue are tragic ... and regrettably, could have been prevented.
In our high-paced, performance-driven, and overachieving culture, it’s hard to recognize that our lives are out of balance and unsustainable for true God-ordained success.
Creating balance in your life is an important way to guarantee your leadership success and develop a partnership with the Holy Spirit.
More Books by Dinah
Up from the Ashes: Recapturing God’s Original Design and Purpose for Your Life
About The Book
Dinah Hodgson looks like she has it all—perfect husband, three great kids, fulfilling volunteer work. But behind the American-dream persona, Dinah carries dark secrets in her subconscious, ready to spill out.
How is your here-and-now? Are you struggling with issues that are overwhelming, with no end in sight? Are you, like Dinah, pressing on, fully cognizant that even the most “perfect” life doesn’t always feel so perfect?
In Up from the Ashes, Dinah recounts her journey of reclaiming her destiny as God brings her through restoration. Surprisingly, He leads her to reexamine her tumultuous childhood. Delving into her story, Dinah describes not only how she received healing from her dysfunctional background and recovered her destiny, but provides valuable insights into how others can be healed and reclaim their stolen destinies too. Using Scripture, Dinah offers key principles to uncover and dismantle spiritual and emotional captivity so individuals can experience the life Christ secured for them.
God can do the unimaginable in your life if you’re willing to let Him. If you allow Christ to redeem the territories of your heart, you too can be led up from the ashes into a life of abundant blessing. Let this insightful book be a roadmap for your journey.