Loving Your Enemies on Valentine’s Day

Today is Valentine’s Day, and I’m one of the very fortunate and blessed people who have many people to love. My wife, my daughters, my church and family and friends throughout the country. These people are dearer to me than my own life. And, likely, you have people like that in your life too. You [...]

Leading, Following AND Getting Out of The Way

Since becoming the senior staff person at an organization I’ve injected my reading and development with a tremendous dosage of leadership material.  I’ve been to conferences, read books, watched webinars and basically immersed my life in leadership. This has been both good and necessary. But there is a sense – as a Christian leadership – [...]

Help Your Preacher Preach Better #3 (5 Strategies to “Getting” the Sermon)

A while ago, I began a conversation about how congregant could help their preacher preach better. You can read about those here and here. Today I’d like to turn our attention to how congregations can get the most out of a sermon. ———- A sermon, like any form of communication, can go in one ear [...]

The Future of Publishing

As you know, I’m a big fan of books and reading. Our world needs more reading not less. So I found this video (posted on Michael Hyatt’s blog) very interesting. Here’s to more reading…in whatever form it comes.

Christmas @ St. Francis’ House

This is a reprint of a post I wrote several years ago. It has been updated since its original posting. Each Advent I read and re-post it here. It is my favorite piece, of all the things I’ve ever written. It continues to challenge me every Advent ———— A friend of mine was walking through [...]

“Enough” by Will Samson, a review

This my review of Will Samson’s newest book, Enough: Contentment in An Age of Excess which I also posted over on Viral Bloggers. —————————————— I’ve been speaking to my friends and anyone else who would listen lately about the lack of exegetical living in the contemporary American church. By it I mean that my lifestyle, and [...]