Detroit is the city that has been featured many times for all the reasons that you would never want your city featured for. It was good to read a bright story about the auto industry's improving fortunes and hear it on the radio as well. When you read of corruption, murder, organized crime and gangs…Read more Creative Leadership #2
Leadership
Creative Leadership #1
Godly leadership prayerfully looks up to the Lord in order to "hear, say and do what the Father is saying to our generation. It's amazing how that knowledge enables leaders to do what leaders do best, look creatively into the future and visualize what the Father wills in heaven to be done on earth! Suddenly…Read more Creative Leadership #1
A Persecuted Church and the Ground Zero Mosque
I was speaking in a small church in a small town in rural Georgia a number of years ago. The pastor and his wife along with their beautiful family were an incredible example of God's holy love to the struggling congregation. He was and is an educated man. She was just as well-educated. They are…Read more A Persecuted Church and the Ground Zero Mosque
Words
I love words. Verbs especially! Adjectives color the world for me. Words let me look back in time, ahead in time. Words bring back the fragrance of an orange blossom, the memory of Becky's smile, or the children touching a fawn in the Smokey Mountains. The Word of God allow me to look into the mind of…Read more Words
Pastors Planning Retreat
“Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity.” Proverbs 21:5 (NLT) “Joy fills hearts that are planning peace.” Proverbs 12:20 (NLT) Our pastoral staff went to a cabin provided a family in our church for annual church and preaching calendar planning retreat. We have been preparing since August for this retreat and the advance work…Read more Pastors Planning Retreat
Relationships I need – A Mentor
I've been a Christian for 38 years yet I still need a discipler. I've been married for 33 years yet I still need a mentor. I've been a Dad for 23 years yet I still need a mentor. I've been in ministry for 34 years yet I still need a mentor. What's the difference between…Read more Relationships I need – A Mentor
HOW I PLAN MY DAY
HOW I PLAN MY DAY "Those who plan to do good will be loved and trusted." Proverbs 14:22 (NLT) 1. Prayerfully 2. Strategically - (Vision) 3. Tactically - (Actions, Time, Metrics) 4. My Roles - (Husband, Dad, Pastor etc) 5. Importance - (avoids the tyranny of the urgent) 6. Conferring - (My family, e-group, my…Read more HOW I PLAN MY DAY
Essential Church Review
I just finished reading the book Essential Church by Sam and Tom Ranier. The book is primarily about reaching dechurched young adults. Dechurched are those who young adults raised in church, left the church but not their faith. I'd give it three stars! The primary reasons given were as follows. 1. They wanted a break from…Read more Essential Church Review
Mission Statements
I just reread Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. My values have not changed from the time I wrote my first mission statement for my life, but my life has certainly changed. Over the years I've continued to filter my decision through that statement. Its been a guide to my decisions. Those decisions…Read more Mission Statements
Coram Deo 