The Power of Practicality
The National Institute of Christian Leadership was carefully designed with practicality as its preeminent and presiding value. I have developed every page of the NICL material with one idea as my true north. Keep it practical. That was the foundation upon which the...
Department V. Department: Leadership and Internal Tension
Why do the speed-to-market folks struggle so with the people up in legal and accounting? Why does the church administrator think the music director is the anti-Christ? What makes a security guard so deeply resentful of a professor who just wants her classroom unlocked...
Purpose in Life
“His servants shall serve him” (Revelation 22:3) God only knows the billions of dollars and countless kilowatts of emotional and psychological energy that have been wasted by people in search of purpose. Many plunge through relationships, jobs and avocations in a...
Should Christians Go to College?
Some Christians are 'too spiritual' for higher education. Take my advice: God can use a few sharp minds. While history waited, while souls perished and Israel languished under the yoke of Gentile oppression, the Messiah prepared in anonymity. Humanity would have...
Money Is Not Evil
Our character is revealed in the way we handle the finances God entrusts to us. I think the church has often failed to communicate a balanced view of prosperity. On the one hand there are the hyperspiritual who say money is altogether evil. Get it away from you. Give...
10 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was 21, Part 2
Read part 1 10-things-i-wish-id-known-when-i-was-21 5. Brokenness is the doorway to wholeness. This mysterious paradox was hidden from me at 21. I feared brokenness. I ran from it, and when it got too close fought it off with all my might. If I had but known...