If your fuel gauge dips below an eighth of a tank, you can still run to the grocery store without stopping for gas. But, if you’re cruising through Kansas on an eighth of a tank, it’s time to take the next exit. Precautions have to do with timing. We don’t save for retirement once we […]
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Board Reports & Jesus’ Return.
As the cliché goes, the best time to prepare for next quarter’s board meeting is the day after you leave this quarter’s board meeting. That’s when the board’s interests are clear and compelling, and you can harness all the seasoned wisdom and savvy anecdotes you just gleaned from a curated team of experts. Which elements […]
A. W. Tozer was not afraid.*
The people of God ought to be the happiest people in all the wide world! Others should be coming to us constantly and asking the source of our joy and delight—redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, our yesterdays behind us, our sin under the blood forever and a day, to be remembered against us […]
Transitions.
What a mixed bag. They’re often chosen, welcomed, and invigorating, but not always. They can represent the end of a season or the acceptance of a new reality. Some transitions are planned; others are imposed. Since we’re always transitioning from one thing to another, it’s helpful to consider not just the inevitability of change, but […]
What work isn’t.
When I was nine, my father built a giant sieve to separate stones from the soil. He wanted a lawn back where the yard was still piles of rubble from a construction project. At dinner that night he asked me to help him shovel one of the piles through the sieve. At nine, my idea […]
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