So I looked in my bathroom mirror this week and wondered why "objects in the mirror are much larger than they appear" didn't just apply to my car's side mirror. My concern proved correct when I tried on the clothes I wore just a few months ago ...
"The higher you go, the thinner the air gets", a phrase spoken by Shirley Denyes to me as a young leader early in my professional career. At the time I didn't understand her statement but 18 years later, I have found that there is wisdom in her ...
Whenever I face times of uncertainty, conflict, and crisis or have major decisions to make I always start with WHAT I KNOW. For me, I lose capacity to remain emotionally grounded when I try to grasp the “what ifs” or the “why’s” that my ...
How do you tackle the task of leading your organization through change? This is a question that every leader, at every level of responsibility must consider IF you care about it's overall success. Scott Wilson's book: Steering Through Chaos, is ...
I have been amused by the polarization of friends and their opinions about Twitter-and the people who tweet. "I don't want to hear when people are going to the bathroom", said one friend who is annoyed with people in his life who are addicted to ...
Today is the Martin Luther King Jr national holiday and I have a few thoughts about, what I think is, a major church leadership blindspot in the U.S.. I wonder how many white churches around the country mentioned anything about the MLK holiday ...
The whole nation is presently gripped in a cold spell, an experience that those of us who live in Minnesota are more accustomed. I love catching the tweets of friends who live in the south and are living in fear of freezing temps and an inch of ...
I had the honor of hosting my Mom and Dad at our house this weekend, mom's cooking and hugs are priceless! They were here to see our boys play football and show our family that they love us (& my brother David's family too!). This morning my ...
I have observed a phenomenon in the last week that I'm wondering whether or not would play out in other areas of our lives. What is it? In the last week co-workers, friends, family and even the man in the mirror have watched their sports teams ...
I woke this morning to hear that one of the heroes of my youth had died, Roosevelt Hunter. I have vivid memories of driving with our youth ministry to Revival Tabernacle in Detroit and working on the church plant he and Tim Delena were starting ...
