Each new day is brimming with opportunity. Overflowing with it. Awash. To allow one’s self to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, To surrender to too many demands, To want to help everyone in everything, Is to succumb to violence. Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of […]
Category: Influence & leadership
You know what I need
For one full year I rode a Honda ST1100 to work. All year. Six sweaters in winter and a yellow slicker for rain. One day, friends invited us for dinner. Though it was pouring, I rode there straight from work, dry as a dustball in my bright yellow rain suit. The problem was, these friends […]
Your teaching matters!
Check this out — something good about church kids from the newspaper! In the past several years more than a few professors . . . have noticed an occasional bright light shining out from the dull, party-going, anti-intellectual masses who stare back at them from class to class. … Young religious people have been made […]
Making a difference
The Pentagon ordered new trucks. Base price: $437,000. Comfortably equipped (weapons, stealth paint, etc.): $1 million. Not long ago, the government shipped 5,000 of these to make a difference in another country. Simple math puts that at $5 billion. Let’s say you had $5 billion to spend on making a difference in another country. How would […]
It’s good when leaders lead differently
A while back two group leaders approached our youth pastor with questions. The first asked, “Is it permissible to take our group to a musical that one of our students is in? If so, how should we handle transportation?” The second said, “Our group is talking about a trip to Guatemala to work at an […]
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