By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 19:1-15 Emotional intelligence in leadership is critical. Daniel Goleman, in his book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, defined emotional intelligence as “the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing our emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships.” In The Emotional Intelligence of Jesus: Relational Smarts for Religious Leaders,

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 15:10-16, 24-30 It was news to me. I had no idea that modern day refrigerators now come with a Sabbath mode. I didn’t even know we had such a mode available on our refrigerator until recently. According to my wife, on occasion, she accidently turns on the Sabbath mode on our fridge.

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: II Samuel 13:15-20, 31-39 Futurologist, Alvin Toffler, in his book, The Third Wave, suggests three waves in American culture and their impact on the family. The agricultural wave was the time when Americans lived on farms out in the country. The industrial wave was the time when American families moved from the country to the city. The information wave

JULY 8: ACCOUNTABLE By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 12:1-14 Practical accountability breeds personal responsibility. Personal responsibility bleeds without practical accountability. 

By Sam Greer Senior Pastor, Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga Focal Passage: 2 Samuel 9:1-13 Following an exhilarating performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall, celebrated classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma went home, slept, and awoke the next day exhausted. He called for a cab to take him to a hotel on the other side of Manhattan and placed his cello, which was handcrafted in Vienna in 1733 and valued at $2.5