Getting to Global Zero

Last week I spoke for over an hour with Tyler Wigg Stevenson, the founder and director of the Two Futures Project (2FP). 2FP is a movement of American Christians for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. That sounds impossible, right? I will address that suspicion later this week, but for now, suffice it to say, [...]

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Arise At Five

Every time I mention to someone that I wake up at either 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. the first question they ask me is “Why?”. Why would anyone who doesn’t HAVE to wake up that early do so? Apparently it’s OK for people who must be at work that early, but why punish yourself?
I’m not naturally [...]

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Anti-Leadership

In his book, Tribes, Seth Godin makes these two statements: (1) “Management is about manipulating resources to get a known job done” and (2) “Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change that you believe in.”
As I examined these statements from the early pages of Tribes, I realized that throughout my ministry training [...]

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Criticism

There are at least two wonderful things I’ve learned from people who’ve been fired. The first is this: Your identity cannot be wrapped up in what you do, and secondly, you begin to see criticism differently. It’s this second learning that I want to explore.
Most of us are terribly fearful of criticism. I am. I [...]

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Losing Your Leadership Voice

I enjoyed watching NBC’s “Inside The Obama White House” this week. Rochelle and I always enjoy a peek behind-the-scenes of “the people’s house.” I remember that we stole some Christmas tree ideas from Laura Bush a few years ago. While these specials are typically over-hyped and choreographed (as if the President goes to Five Guys [...]

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Gone Live

Not that it’s the most important thing in the world, but the new Redwood Church site is now live. See it here. 
After you do, shoot me an e-mail (which you can do on the site) giving me your feedback. And I mean that. Most folks looking for a church find it through the web in [...]

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