14 Apr 2012
Leading to Be
Note: Today’s post is an excerpt from Think Differently Lead Differently, my current project.
I couldn’t keep it in much longer.
7 Apr 2012
A Saturday kind of Season
Yesterday we celebrated something which, at the time of the actual event, was not celebrated but mourned. The death of Jesus was, to most, a shocking and devastating end to a soaring hope. Read more…
30 Mar 2012
The Problem Jesus Came to Solve (Part 4)
Because we see everything that we see, we assume that everything we see is all that there is to see. Jesus did not minister to only a few blind people. Read more…
23 Mar 2012
The Problem Jesus Came to Solve (Part 3)
Let’s come from a different angle to continue our efforts to understand the problem that Jesus came to solve. I have made much of the idea that we formulate our solutions based on our definition of a problem. Read more…
20 Mar 2012
The Problem Jesus Came to Solve (Part 2)
“The thief comes to steal, to kill and to destroy, but I came that you might all behave really really well until I come back”
Not Jesus
16 Mar 2012
The Problem Jesus Came to Solve
What if the problem that Jesus came to solve could actually prevent us from understanding the problem that Jesus came to solve? Read more…
9 Mar 2012
I Argued with God: He Won.
Fittingly enough I was in a cow pasture, surrounded, by, well, cow products. I was in a surly mood, and I was preparing to duke it out with God. Yeah, with God. Read more…
3 Mar 2012
Authority
In the devils’ personal war on words, the word “authority” is one of his favorite victims. I think he chooses his targets based on how much God likes them and how important they are to God’s people. Read more…
23 Feb 2012
What is the Product of the Church?
I have been involved in way too many conversations about designing metrics to help measure and ultimately improve the effectiveness of “the church”. I struggle deeply with this conversation every time. When you set out to measure a thing, you must first begin to break it down into the kinds of things you want to measure. Read more…
18 Feb 2012
What is the Church?
Some of them stand with signs claiming that their venomous hate represents the God of the Universe. Some of them gather in buildings identified by signs and systems. Some of them claim the internet as their domain and their “flock”. Read more…
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