Aug 3, 2016 | Church Ministry
God is always I AM, always who He is. Still the question remains, is He a moral God? In other words, if holiness means to be consistent in nature, could a holy God by consistently bad? It may seem like a silly question to many, but, in fact, the question would make a...
Jun 13, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Culture, Education, Leadership
I have spent most my life in leadership at one level or another. My leadership experience began in sports, playing, coaching and officiating. That season was invaluable, as was every subsequent phase of the journey in pastoral leadership, in the non-profit world, in...
May 13, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
I once visited a pastor who had sawed the legs off the visitor’s chair in his study. He said that intimidated those who sat there, made them feel small, peering over the edge of the desk like insignificant children. This same man told me that when he met a business...
May 11, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
“It’s my ball and I will take it and go home if I can’t play quarterback.” In a certain less-than-prosperous neighborhood in which I lived during junior high school, that was the profoundly irritating mantra of the only boy who actually...
Apr 25, 2016 | Business Leadership, Church Ministry, Leadership
A man on an airplane told me his organization was considering hiring on a “brand consultant.” This interested me since branding and brand recovery is something I teach on at the National Institute of Christian Leadership. As we talked further, however, I...
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...
