I spent years making a living with the following conversation.
Me: (to distressed couple) “Tell me how you would like things to be in your marriage.”
Distressed Husband, “I would like her to stop…” Read more…
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…
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…
“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
What if the problem that Jesus came to solve could actually prevent us from understanding the problem that Jesus came to solve? Read more…
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…
Thinking Differently, may I remind you, is not about changing the content of your thoughts, it is about changing the processes of perception. By processes I mean how data gets into our mind, and what we do with it once it is in our mind. Read more…
Three thousand of us rose spontaneously to our feet as the American flag unfurled over a verbal tribute to our nation, our history and our heritage. He just sat there. Read more…
We ask questions whether we mean to or not. Our soul is asking questions, and the questions can be identified by watching the things that we consider to be answers. Everyday existence shoots questions at us, like, “does my life matter?”, Read more…
Figuring out what we are doing wrong is not always the key to doing it right. In fact, often, figuring out what we are doing wrong is the first step to doing it wrong again, but in a new way that deceptively feels like we have fixed the problem. Read more…
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