The Problem With Excellence
I had a crazy front row seat watching a church grow from a house group to 6000+ people on a weekend. Whether that’s good or bad and...
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Nov 22, 20222 min read
What's Your Attitude Indicator?
So here’s an idea as we move into the Thanksgiving holiday… Paul’s short letter to the Philippian church underscored his belief that...
Oct 25, 20222 min read
Do You Have “Missional Integrity”?
The present love affair with corporate mission statements must be more than a framed eight-by-twelve well-wordsmithed paragraph hung on a...
Sep 20, 20223 min read
The Ease of “Power Abuse”
People can abuse power in a non-profit organization or on a church board, around a dinner table or in a street gang. Or in a marriage....
May 3, 20224 min read
Does Anyone Hate Me?
There are many things that Christians are doing in the postmodern era that are exemplary, often ignored by the media. For instance, the...
Mar 23, 20222 min read
What's Your Leadership Perspective?
I recently came across a fascinating geographical factoid. The writer at The Acadian Ideal overlayed the Mediterranean Sea map on top of...
Jun 3, 20213 min read
Are Leaders Born or Made?
Some years back I had lunch with a young man who had immigrated to America at fifteen to escape an abusive father and a broken family...
Nov 10, 20203 min read
Vulnerability & Leadership
The organizational behavior philosopher Charles Handy made reference to an exercise known as the Johari Window. The Johari exercise...
Oct 15, 20202 min read
Leaders Get Ripped Off. So?
In doing ministry that is geared toward serving, generosity, and giving away resources, some churches get concerned that they might get...
Oct 15, 20202 min read
The (Not-So) Secret Weapon of the Church
For some unknown reason, I recently stumbled across a 60-year old interview with Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace. As you probably know, Rand’s...
Sep 29, 20203 min read
VBS and C.S. Lewis
One summer when I was a little boy, my mom sent me to something called “Vacation Bible School.” If ever there was an oxymoron, that’s it....
Jun 22, 20203 min read
A Self-Leadership Surprise
“Virtually everything our modern culture believes about the type of leadership required to transform our institutions is wrong. It is...
May 26, 20202 min read
Leadership & the Will of God
As spiritual leaders, all of us want to have a sense that we’re operating in the will of God. Certainly we don’t want to lead outside of...
May 19, 20202 min read
Seasons & Leadership
There is one thing that makes “leadership seasons” manageable... Last night, the leader of our small group (Zoomed, of course…we’re still...
May 12, 20202 min read
The Case For Humble Leaders
The story of Joseph in Genesis is a powerful study in leadership...and humility. You know the account: his brothers had tormented him as...
Apr 28, 20203 min read
Starting Over...and the "Trust Factor"
A while back I broke down and bought a comfort bike. It’s a clever marketing name for bicycles for old people. For nearly thirty years I...
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