Wrong Place…Wrong LabelRecently a fine Italian restaurant owner found a bottle of wine that was in the wrong place with the wrong tag in the wrong storage bag. You see the restaurant had a system of storage. Depending on value, a bottle was put in a certain type bag, then a tag placed on the bag for easy viewing, and then placed in a certain section. Continue Reading…
1- Lead yourself to a new level – Continuously
2- Lead someone else to Christ who becomes a Leader!
3- Lead a group of “Outsiders” to Salvation!
4- Lead a group of “Insiders” through Transformation!
5- Lead a group of Leaders on a Mission!
6- Lead a Movement with God given Passion! Continue Reading…
The LORD wills it!!! Was screaming from the movie I was watching last night in my hotel room, on my little small portable DVD player, in Liberia. It was about the Crusades and the fall of Jerusalem to the Muslims in the 16th century.
The "Christians" thought they were invincible and because they carried the name of "Christian" they would have victory over all their enemies! WOW! They must have never read the Bible. The will of God comes from the mouth of God!
As you lead… never forget this simple truth. The will of God is heard and known by His Word, spoken and written.. It is the very thing you must seek hourly and daily. Apart from knowing the will of God daily… Continue Reading…
The gathering place for young people…here in Monrovia is called "Dusty foot." It is not a place of great malls, coffee shops or skate parks. Its just their place! A place where they can call their own, where they can text their friends and "hang out" together, it’s their community of acceptance.
As church leaders, we need our own "Dusty Foot." We must have a group of our peers, where we are accepted just as we are. We are not the "big dog" we are just equals… Continue Reading…
Do you remember "painting by the numbers?" You know seeing the beautiful painting on the box, and inside the little brushes, tray of all paint colors with corresponding numbers, and of course your soon to be canvas of beauty broken and divided by 100′s of little spaces with numbers in them.
Wouldn’t it be great to have a vision like that? One that comes together so well and beautiful. I believe that’s the way God leads powerful-humble leaders. The ones that truly seek hard after God’s heart, he shows them the "box cover." Then He brings other leaders, artists, craftsmen, administrators and painters to come along side to complete the masterpiece… But, this is the thing… Continue Reading…
During our trip to West Africa, we flew Delta, and we had to make a stop over in another West African country.
Delta hired a local company to clean the plane cabin. We remained on the plane to continue to the next stop, and a young man came onto the plane with the oldest blackest dirtiest mop you had ever seen!
Here is this premiere American airline, providing wonderful service, I commented to those traveling with me how courteous the flight attendants were, the food was ok,…but. Here comes the dirty black MOP!!!
All of a sudden, I felt the fair I paid was too high! A small thing I noticed changed my perception of the big picture (i.e., a hair in your salad…just reminding you)… Continue Reading…
I was going through my journal this morning and found an entry from a couple years ago when we were selling our original campus and moving forward with the renovation of our new campus (a 55K SqFt old Winn Dixie building). I wrote… Continue Reading…
My family and I are leaving today for Liberia. Most of our "space" is filled with "stuff" for others on the ground in Monrovia, so we have little space for our "stuff."
This exercise brought something to mind.. If I only had 10 minutes to pack and go live overseas and never to return…what would I put in my limited space bag?
It was a very revealing and sobering exercise of priorities and materialism.
So you have 10-minutes and a small bag, never to return!
What are you gonna put in your bag?
As a leader it is very difficult to keep things in balance, or at least what "feels" like balance. I heard a great man of God say,
…the hardest thing you will ever do as a leader is to maintain balance.
"Balance" is a myth, and an oxymoron for a leader, some say. I heard that some 20 years ago, and it still resounds as loud as ever with truth. High energy leaders go from extreme to extreme, and if they hit all the areas frequently enough with some "extremism" they feel they are balanced.
That’s CRAP! Not only is it crap, it’s Continue Reading…
