The Lagging Learning Curves
It takes time to teach people, it takes time for knowledge to spread around a culture. Knowledge sometimes can not penetrate business cultures readily. Some people learn slower than do others,...
View ArticleGoal-Setting: Our Path to Productivity in 2015
In mid-December I took a half-day to do two things. Evaluate 2014 life-goals and how I performed at meeting them. Set new life-goals for 2015. Life-goals are important, they give us a path to travel...
View ArticleLead Your Family by Knowing It’s Season
Family life can be chaotic, it can be stressful, it can be expensive and it can be wonderful. A family needs vision and leadership just like any team or group of people. One way to do this is to...
View ArticleFour Critical Responsibilities of Dad
When I look at my kids I wonder how they look at me, I remember as a young child looking at my parents as almost surreal ideals. I wonder am I setting a good example, should I show open humility or...
View ArticleStrengths… Not Gifts
Our personal intelligence, our emotional strength and our strength of personality are the enemies of our spiritual lives, they are not ‘spiritual gifts’. Our personal boldness and eloquence are the...
View ArticleWhy Authoritarianism is for Amatures
Here is a great depiction of the difference between leadership and authoritarianism from the 1995 movie Braveheart. Authority relies on identity, on human greatness, on giving orders, on being...
View ArticleMistaken Vs. False Teachings
Is That False Teaching or Is He Just Mistaken? There is a difference between how we should react to false teaching vs. mistaken teachings in churches and ministries. A mistaken teaching is accidental...
View ArticleThe Real Go Getter
I read not too long ago the book The Go Getter by Peter B. Kyne. It is a very good productivity and leadership read for business people. But, this book and its teachings should not be applied to...
View ArticleCriticizing Younger Followers
It bothers me to hear church leaders criticizing their younger peers for doing better what they taught them to do by example. I read an article by the leader of the Christian band Skillet . He was...
View ArticleSermons & Speech Making
I predict that sermons will all but destroy the institution of speech making. In a hundred years no one will want to hear brilliant oration. What happens in the church (good or bad) leads the world....
View ArticleThe Biggest Problem on Earth
Nothing else comes close. Should be #1 priority of Trump and the UN and the Russian and Chinese and Israeli leaders and Pelosi and the courts: The biggest problem on earth is the problem of who is in...
View ArticleWrite the Vision Down
There is a verse in Habakkuk 2 where God tells Habakkuk to write the vision down. His use of the word vision was along the lines of the word revelation. God was essentially telling Habakkuk the prophet...
View ArticleActivism or the Spirit
An activist is someone who is using their own passion strength and personal resources to push to make things better. This is how things get done in the world. Activists can be Christian or not, some...
View ArticleBoundaries Around Leading Others
To be a great leader is not necessarily being a great servant of God. Knowing when, where, and how to apply your leadership skills is far more important than being ABLE to lead others. There are strong...
View ArticleThe Biggest Problem on Earth
Nothing else comes close. Should be #1 priority of Trump and the UN and the Russian and Chinese and Israeli leaders and Pelosi and the courts: The biggest problem on earth is the problem of who is in...
View ArticleWrite the Vision Down
There is a verse in Habakkuk 2 where God tells Habakkuk to write the vision down. His use of the word vision was along the lines of the word revelation. God was essentially telling Habakkuk the prophet...
View ArticleBoundaries Around Leading Others
To be a great leader does not necessarily mean we are great servants of God. Knowing when, where, and how to apply leadership skills is far more important than being ABLE to lead others. In Jesus...
View ArticleWhy Sunday Sermons are Inadequate
The institution, the tradition of the Sunday sermon is incapable of and is not qualified to communicate the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. I know that’s a strong statement and could be...
View ArticlePlease Don’t Start Another Church
Have you heard this attitude in Christian leaders starting a church? “I can do it better than the former generation”or“I can do it better than those doing it now”. -unspoken attitude of local church...
View ArticleWhat Has Been the Culmination of Socialism?
The hope and dream of most socialist and communist leaders (Karl Marx in the 1840s) was a more equal society. One where wealth and power was dispersed among the people, the proletariat and not...
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