Listened to a Catalyst podcast this morning—an interview with Gov Mike Huckabee about leadership. Interesting and informative. Gov Huck said serving as a Baptist pastor in his 20s and 30s helped prepare him for politics because there are four things required to be a...
I posted this yesterday on my other blog. Don’t usually double-post, but thought it might be good to post here because of all the fear, worry, and panic going on around the world. ————————— Banks closing. Stocks crashing. Finger-pointing. Gas shortages. Mass panic....
The questions change, but the answer is always the same. Q: What about the Republican’s energy policy?A: We don’t need four more years of the same. Q: What do you think about Sarah Palin?A: Four more years of the same Bush-Chaney policies. Q: What about McCain’s plan...
“Jameel Yaqub” posted the following insightful comment in response to my blog about Iranian Christians facing persecution and possible execution. What do we pray? For in death they have life. So we do we pray that they will not be put to death? Or do we pray that they...
Learned a lot two weeks ago during our Church Planter Boot Camp listening to Kevin York talk about the pre-launch stage of church planting. I wish I heard this twenty-five years ago. Wouldn’t have made so many dumb decisions. Can’t remember what it was, but something...
I was feeling sick this morning, thinking about how people in the pew treat Christian leaders like rock stars, and how so many of our rock-star “leaders” seem comfortable with it. Spiritual leaders used to be servants, now they have servants with weird titles like...
