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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Arise At Five
Posted in Blogroll, advocacy, blogs, change, family, fatherhood, leadership, life, prayer on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Anti-Leadership
Posted in change, church, leadership, ministry, missional, priorities on June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Criticism
Posted in Missional Church, change, leadership on June 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Losing Your Leadership Voice
Posted in Christmas, change, politics on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Gone Live
Posted in change, church on April 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Emergent Smackdown Reflections
Posted in Blogroll, change, church, emerging church, speech acts on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Much has already been written (blogged) about the Emergent church smackdown with Tony Jones, Scot McKnight. Kevin DeYoung and Alex and Bret Harris (whom I had never heard of before seeing this) at the Christian Book Expo.
You can see the video here. After you’ve watched the video, come back here.
Here are my reflections.
1. McKnight and [...]
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