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I had a crazy front row seat watching a church grow from a house group to 6000+ people on a weekend. Whether that’s good or bad and...

So here’s an idea as we move into the Thanksgiving holiday… Paul’s short letter to the Philippian church underscored his belief that...

The present love affair with corporate mission statements must be more than a framed eight-by-twelve well-wordsmithed paragraph hung on a...

People can abuse power in a non-profit organization or on a church board, around a dinner table or in a street gang. Or in a marriage....

There are many things that Christians are doing in the postmodern era that are exemplary, often ignored by the media. For instance, the...

I recently came across a fascinating geographical factoid. The writer at The Acadian Ideal overlayed the Mediterranean Sea map on top of...

Some years back I had lunch with a young man who had immigrated to America at fifteen to escape an abusive father and a broken family...

The organizational behavior philosopher Charles Handy made reference to an exercise known as the Johari Window. The Johari exercise...

In doing ministry that is geared toward serving, generosity, and giving away resources, some churches get concerned that they might get...

For some unknown reason, I recently stumbled across a 60-year old interview with Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace. As you probably know, Rand’s...

One summer when I was a little boy, my mom sent me to something called “Vacation Bible School.” If ever there was an oxymoron, that’s it....

“Virtually everything our modern culture believes about the type of leadership required to transform our institutions is wrong. It is...

As spiritual leaders, all of us want to have a sense that we’re operating in the will of God. Certainly we don’t want to lead outside of...

There is one thing that makes “leadership seasons” manageable... Last night, the leader of our small group (Zoomed, of course…we’re still...

The story of Joseph in Genesis is a powerful study in leadership...and humility. You know the account: his brothers had tormented him as...

A while back I broke down and bought a comfort bike. It’s a clever marketing name for bicycles for old people. For nearly thirty years I...