The Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit took place the past few days on August 6th & 7th, 2015. I have set aside this weekend to marinate on these leadership quotes & principles. My prayer is that as you seek to live and lead curiously, these leadership axioms will also add value to your life. Here […]
How do you know if you are living a curious life? 1. You get up early. When you love the life you are living, you are anxious to wake up and live it. 2. You are exhausted but energized. Being energized and refreshed does not come from an absence or lack of work, it […]
Boxing gloves image available here. I wanted to begin this article by saying, “No one likes confrontation.” But I have found that is, unfortunately, not true. There are some who love confrontation, and if there is not currently a crisis in their life, they will create one so they can confront it! So it would […]
Over the course of the last two decades, I have been blessed to be around some phenomenal leaders and some very phony leaders. In an effort to avoid becoming a phony leader, I have kept a list of terrible leadership characteristics on my Evernote. Here are five ways I have learned that leaders can destroy their leadership equity and […]
As I study the ancient wisdom of Solomon I am reminded of our options when it comes to work. These four things have challenged and re-calibrated me recently.
Over the past two decades of my life I have owned three vintage VW buses. The last one was at Discovery Church in Simi Valley, California. I literally had “mobile office” lettering put on the side of the bus and would spend many Thursday afternoons parked at Zuma Beach in Malibu. If you wanted to […]
What if you decided to give the same amount of creativity to your family as you do to your job? How awesome would your family be? From a decade of experience as a youth pastor and a decade of experience as a lead pastor, I have seen far too many families who give their […]
As we head into Fathers Day weekend doesn’t your dad deserve something more than a tie, socks or a Starbucks gift card? Here are eight great gifts to get your pops this year. 1. Bacon Flavored Toothpaste Brushing your teeth with a strip of fried bacon is tricky. If it’s too crisp it will break […]
I don’t know how you would answer that question, but I am a pastor, and I own a Porsche. To live curiously and collect curious things does not always make sense to everyone. Twenty years ago when I was a youth pastor in Indianapolis, I wrote three books for youth pastors: Things They Didn’t Teach […]
For much of my early ministry life, I was being told, you are going to be the “next” rather than the “first.” I believe this all started when I was at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. I was an up and coming youth pastor, and it was natural and meant to be a compliment […]
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