A ministry colleague and friend recently asked me: “When you are leading leaders, what is your main focus?”This is a great question. Anytime I’m working with a leader to equip and empower them, I always begin with the heart.Too often, we focus immediately on skills...
I originally shot and posted this short video about eighteen months ago. However, in a modern culture that is more obsessed with fame and celebrity than ever before, I decided to post it again. Earlier this year, I deleted every social media app on my phone because I...
No matter how many times I’ve read the Bible, whenever I study it, new things emerge that I’ve never noticed before. This happened to me recently while studying Deuteronomy 8.What hit me was not the “what” of the passage but rather the “why.”After God explained to...
A few weeks ago, my son William preached a sermon during our Nashville office devotions on the hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy” and the texts it was based on—Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4. Together these texts teach us about the nature of God and the nature of worship. In...
I will never forget how Deborah and I were received when we moved to the Philippines as cross-cultural missionaries. Filipinos greeted us with unearned kindness, graciousness, and curiosity. They accepted us into their lives and families, and they forgave us when we...
Consensus leadership happens when a team of individuals works together to collectively make a decision. Positional leadership happens when a leader has a certain hierarchical position that allows him or her to make quick, unilateral decisions. Many of you have very...
