Jan 4, 2017 | Church Ministry, Leadership
Biblical metaphors relative to the laws giving and receiving include no mention of grateful crows, but a little girl in Seattle, Washington has proven they might well have done so. Eight year old Gabi Mann began sharing part of her lunch with the crows each day. No...
Dec 7, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
Imagine a scenario in which two widely known and well respected ministerial leaders have a serious conflict over which associate to hire, so serious in fact that they end their professional association and go their separate ways. Each then hires his own...
Oct 19, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
First of all, I’m not opposed to mission statements. There. I’ve said that. However, having said it, I hasten to add there is little energy in a mission statement. “Loving God, Loving People” ...
Sep 28, 2016 | Church Ministry, Leadership
When, after a long recess in missions, I came back to pastor again in America, I was asked not infrequently if I was ever afraid in Africa. My answer was always, “Not so desperately or so often as I am now.” If you want to be really afraid, pastor an American...
Sep 21, 2016 | Church Ministry, Culture, Leadership
There are equal and opposite errors with respect to the Valley of Baca. On the one hand are those particularly irritating “faith” preachers, so called, who claim that a true saint has no business in the Valley of Baca. They are not only boorish but shallow and...
Sep 7, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
Success and failure are not so much matters of what we learn or earn or own. Success is measured and determined by what we reverence. As worth is assigned to things in a society, the individuals in it will carve out their legacy of success or failure. If virtue is...
