Leader || Preacher || Teacher
My father is deceased, in fact, June 14th is the anniversary of his death. I have fond memories of my dad.
Continue reading “Keep in Step: Following the Spirit in Uncertainty and Discomfort”
“But you’re so young.” This was the concern of many minister search teams when I was interviewing for my next ministry. Once I responded with, “I’m thirty-five years old, it’s not like I’m living in my mom’s basement playing Halo.” I listened to my wife’s counsel not to respond to that concern in that way again. What we might be prone to think is that we want our leaders to have arrived. What if instead we desired that our leaders and ourselves be ever-growing. Continue reading “Just-for-Men-Preacher”
I’ve got six dynamite links to share with you today! From The Shack, to sharing your faith, to Lent. I hope that they will be life enriching to you and that they will help you to see Jesus more clearly. Go and do good for God while you still have the opportunity and have an awesome weekend! Continue reading “TGIF Lent”
“Leaders have more trouble than anybody else when it comes to receiving feedback, particularly about how they’re doing as leaders.” – Daniel Goleman, Primal Leadership
I learned while serving as Lead Minister in a prior ministry that it was difficult to receive feedback from the eldership and those who reported to me. I created a formal system of evaluation and feedback for the organization that was administered twice a year. This proved to be insufficient.
Continue reading “Resonant Leadership: Attunement > Alignment”
I hope you are having a good week. The writers have really outdone themselves this time. I’ve also included a link to one of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s speeches. May you be informed, inspired, and blessed. Continue reading “TGIF MLK Weekend”
My social media timelines are filled with all my friend’s snow days. Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and even my beautiful state of Colorado have all been turned into winter wonderlands! Temps dropped to below zero in my community, that’s cold for me. So wherever you are, make some snowballs, or curl-up with some hot cocoa or a hot beverage of your choice (I’ve got a hot tea seeping right now) and enjoy some interesting links.
Thank God it’s Friday!
Here are some blogs, articles and podcasts that I just wanted to share with you. Finish your week strong with these great links!
Leaders are learners! Continue reading “TGIF Links”
TGIF Reads are some blogs and articles that I’ve read and just wanted to share with you. You’re welcome! Also, maybe you should literally thank God on Fridays because Fridays are pretty awesome.
Leaders are readers! Continue reading “TGIF Links”
If you are part of a club or an organization that only allowed people to join by invitation you would probably be extremely excited to accept their offer to become a member. You made it in! Conversely, after you have accepted their invitation, you might be a little upset if they decided to allow more and more people to join the ranks.
When you were on the outside you may have wished that more people would be allowed on the inside. Unfortunately, what happens often is that when you finally get on the inside you will be tempted to keep outsiders on the outside. You grow increasingly more concerned with how the club serves you than inviting more people into your club. Ironically, club growth may actually be part of the club’s mission.
Continue reading “Habits – Part 4: Engage Those Far from God”
All organizations can fall into a rut of repeatedly doing the same things in the same ways even when they do not produce the results that they want. I think this can especially be true of churches. Churches and non-profits that resign themselves to routine will commonly say things like,
“People just aren’t interested in Jesus (church) anymore.”
“There are so many other things that compete with people’s time.”
“We’ve never done it that way before.” Variations include: “We’ve always done it this way,” and, “That’s always been our tradition.”
“Don’t upset the apple cart.”
“Don’t rock the boat.”