Nov 15, 2019 | Culture, Leadership
Who do you consider to be influences in your lives? How have they played a role in shaping who you are today? Have they been positive influences or negative? We all have been shaped in some way or another by those who have played varied roles in our lives. Our first...
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...
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...
Jun 1, 2016 | Business Leadership, Culture, Leadership
The Portland Public School Board recently voted to ban from all its schools any book, magazine, pamphlet or other material that expresses any doubt about climate change. Students at DePaul University invaded a speech by conservative speaker, Milo Yiannopolous,...
May 18, 2016 | Business Leadership, Culture, Leadership
The New York City Human Rights Commission has just ruled that bars can no longer refuse to serve alcohol to obviously pregnant women. It is worth noting here that the mayor of this same New York City, Bill De Blasio, tried to limit the size of a soft drink one could...
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...
