“If the horse is dead, dismount!”
This is an old saying, which means, “if what you are using is not moving…get rid of it.”
Sometimes even the best laid, thought out & mind mapped ideas and systems just don’t work!
They simply don’t produce the results we need.
So what do you do…? Continue Reading…
All leaders know the feelings that come with leadership…
If you have never felt this great feeling of loneliness, you have never followed the call in going against the flow and running with passionate vision. Continue Reading…
Many are running in the leadership race.
Many aspire to lead, encourage, mobilize & transform people, places & even culture.
However, there are 3 important and essential pieces to running a great and worthwhile leadership race… Continue Reading…
Vision is a strange thing.
As leaders we must have a vision or those who follow will perish, but… we can only show a part of a vision at a time.
If a strong visionary unloads everything that God has shown, allow all to taste what they have eaten, give all the same portion they have been entrusted with, it would crush those who follow. The challenge is to know how much to pour into those around you, without letting them feel overwhelmed. But share enough so they will have faith, and believe God with you.. Continue Reading…
What Would Jesus Do?
Never really liked that phrase. There is to much room for “interpretation” with that mind set. I have seen so many people in and outside the church harmed so deeply by the “religious” and those with judgmental mind-sets!
When you can “interpret” WWJD, Continue Reading…
Well…Until I ___ Until We____
Ever hear that? It’s a five letter word that can kill. It can be the resting place for complacncy, fear, indecision or lack of vision. We use “until” to excuse ourselves from taking action or following through.
Unfortunately, “until” never arrives for many. We keep changing Continue Reading…
If you stay in ministry long, you will won’t to give up. You will experience a few, some or all or a combination of the following:
If they talk about specific people, parties and divisive issues in the political arena, they will undermine their Kingdom impact. Yeah I know, some feel we must speak to these issues and if we don’t who will be the “Christian voice” on important topics.
This is the deal. Those that are in the political field and in the Kingdom, let them speak to the Kingdom Continue Reading…
If you do life and ministry long enough…
Someone will consider you an enemy
It doesn’t matter what you do, there will always be those who will get hurt and then turn against you, sometimes violently. Remember Jesus was perfect, and He was still betrayed and falsely accused. So we Continue Reading…
