Apr 19, 2016 | Business Leadership, Leadership
The seas of human life, so lashed as they are by storms of crisis and controversy, are where real leaders do their duty. Happily-ever-after only happens in the movies. Real life, and therefore real leadership, is actually one storm after another punctuated by brief...
Apr 15, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
No man is an island. Good alliances in life can be a source of empowerment and resources for advancement. But bad alliances can be a destructive source of great pain. There are many things that can make for bad “partnerships,” and I use the term loosely to mean top...
Apr 12, 2016 | Business Leadership, Leadership
When I was in undergraduate school, my Western Literature professor was a young firebrand atheist who made no secret of his disdain for religion. One day in class someone asked him what he thought was the greatest single poem ever written. He shocked us all when he...
Apr 7, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
Honesty is correct relationship with the highest level of reality. God Himself is ultimate reality. Truth is sacred because departure from truth is departure from God. The issue of truth is crucial to what we believe to be true about God and life. Satan is a liar and...
Mar 31, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
I love basketball, but March Madness doesn’t usually affect me, or should I say INFECT me, all that much. I like the intensity of basketball. I especially enjoy it if one of the teams has some particular meaning to me. I served as the president of two...
Mar 24, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Culture, Leadership
Perhaps, even probably, you have never connected meekness and success. In fact, you only really need meekness when you are successful and powerful. Meekness is the virtue of the victor, not the defeated. Misunderstood by many, meekness is often thought to be only for...
