If you don’t know your strengths, you won’t know how to build a team or fulfill your part on a team. The truth is we are limited to what we can do on our own, which makes team work an utter necessity. Let’s look at this in the context of a family. [...]
Part II: The Blueprint Of Vision
Vision cannot be taught, but it must be caught. What I am saying is that you can get a parrot to repeat your vision; however, when vision is your heart then you will live life from the blueprint of vision. We have to do more than memorize our mission statement, [...]
Part I: Leadership 101
Who could count the numbers of books written on the subject of leadership? While many books have been written about leadership, it remains for many a misunderstood and elusive quality. The capacity for leadership exists in everyone, but most people never take the time to develop it. Leadership 101 is determination, courage, confidence, [...]
Peace & Joy!
At the heart of the Christmas season we celebrate the fact that God stepped into time and became a man. In Zechariah’s prophecy, the father of John the Baptist spoke clearly about the purpose of the Messiah, which was to bring peace. Peace and joy are the result of our enemies being overcome. In a [...]
Part V: Fear, Failure, Success & Christmas?
I am ending this series on fear and confronting what I consider great misunderstandings in American culture, which is fear, failure and success, but what does it have to do with Christmas?. Success ideas have been embedded into our society. The pressure to live up to certain expectations has driven many to a place of [...]
Part IV: The Fear Of Rejection
The reality of life is that we are all going to experience rejection. It comes in many different forms, however the one thing that should comfort us during this Christmas is learning to recognize and unwrap the free gift of Christ knowing that God is with us. Immanuel is not a season, but [...]
Part III: Fear Of The Future
Bugarach a small town in the mountains of northern France is predicted to be the only place to survive the coming Mayan Apocalypse on December 21, 2012. Yeah most of us chuckle at this, as we should. However, David Morrison, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, said that he receives a large [...]
Part II: Fear Of Change
One thing you can be certain of today and that is change. The music artist Bob Dylan once wrote: Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then [...]
Where Do We Go From Here?
Well one of the most contentious elections of my lifetime is over. Let us remember that as much as we understand that politics has real and immediate consequences for the lives of millions and for the life and direction of our communities, states and nations, and so it’s okay to give attention and [...]
Part II: Restoring Love
Have you ever worked on a project that had a lot of details? If you have then you know that it can become very easy to get so caught up in the details that you miss the main purpose for the project. We call this missing the ‘Big Picture’. We use another saying [...]
