by mddoebler | May 9, 2024 | Gospel-Centered Mentoring
Hello, Friends! This is Author Matthew Doebler’s wife Christine. Recently, he asked me to write about the bull-headed mentee. Why, you ask? Perhaps because that’s ME! Even though I initially come across as the compliant middle child, I can stubbornly...
by mddoebler | May 9, 2024 | Gospel-Centered Mentoring
Prepare for the mentor session by setting the mentor schedule and location, preparing your heart for the session, and preparing for the session itself. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group once said, “If you ask any successful business person, they will always...
by mddoebler | May 9, 2024 | Devotions
This is a tale of two “s” words. The first one occurred in first grade. On classmates’ birthdays, our teacher would make a big birthday card out of construction paper which we would all sign throughout the day. As one particular card was getting passed around,...
by mddoebler | May 9, 2024 | Gospel-Centered Mentoring
Sometimes, distance or other complications make it difficult to meet with mentees face-to-face. If you want to keep a pattern of bi-weekly mentor sessions, you may need to meet with them online.[1] Understandably, many mentors who are compelled to meet online mourn...
by mddoebler | May 9, 2024 | Devotions
I just love watching heist movies, like “Oceans Eleven”, “the Italian Job”, and the old classic, “The Sting”. The plots essentially follow the same flow: the good guys have been humiliated by the bad guys in some way, and the good guys are determined to rob the bad...