Leadership
Strength
Ever feel like you have been running the race marked out for you and it seems like someone stuck their foot out in front of you and tripped you? I mean the kind of fall that’s more than a skinned knee, Read more…
Leadership
Meanwhile: Name it- Part 2
We looked at waiting and its discomfort and inconvenience in the Part 1 of this series. If it’s inevitable, how should I approach these seasons? I find it helpful in life to call something what it is. If it’s a Read more…
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Church Problems
As long as there are people, there will be problems. As one of my colleagues and friends likes to say, ‘humans tend to human.’ There is no such thing as a problem-free church, yet most churches have far more problems Read more…
Leadership
Meanwhile: What to do while you wait- Part 1
Chances are that you’re reading this right now while waiting on an appointment to show up, to be called back, or so that you don’t have to make eye contact with anyone (we introverts tend toward that). We are more Read more…
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Love Speaks No Language: Africa Memories Part 1
At first, she looked at me with some confusion. My friend came over to us in order to translate and explain to her what I had handed her. It was the summer of 2018, and we had just exited her Read more…
Leadership
Transitions
Have you ever said something so obvious, you wonder why you had to say it? I find myself saying such a statement much more often recently. Funny thing is, I tell it to myself more than anyone else. Even funnier, Read more…
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Shaped and Formed
Recently in meeting where a group of us were discussing a discipleship model for academic theological education, I made a statement that I make often about my own formation as a follower of Jesus. I said, “The person I am Read more…
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The Stockdale Paradox
In our work with churches and pastors, we have found the Stockdale Paradox to be an essential underpinning for leader health as well as church health and revitalization. Jim Collins term this concept the “Stockdale Paradox” named after Admiral James Read more…
