I saw some stuff lately about blogging advice and how to craft your posts and how to phrase a catchy headline and I thought, “I’ve been blogging for a long time and not worried about that stuff!” … To all of you that have been around over the course of the last 7.5 years, thanks.
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Global Leadership Summit 2011, Part 2: Leonard A. Schlesinger
(Might have something to do with the fact that I’ve become an entrepreneur in the last year and a lot of what he said was really promising and exciting, vs. the usual song you hear when you are starting your own business that has a repeating chorus singing “you will fail, you will fail, you will fail.”) … I think they would have benefited a lot from just focusing on the next month rather than thinking they had to discover their lifelong vocation at 22. When you fail at something, like say, running a coffee filled backpack business, you learn something that nobody else knows.
Jesus' Confident Arrest
[4] Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?†[5] They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.†Jesus said to them, “I am he.†Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. [6] When Jesus said to them, “I am he,†they drew back and […]
'Church' is cultural
I think there is so little detail about what CHURCH is in the Bible because how people worship God is as different as the cultures in which they live. When a missionary goes into uncharted territory, they do not prop up their video screens and the powerpoint and start singing Tommy Walker songs. (That would […]
No More Hollywood Sermons
Last weekend I taught 3 times at a Jr. high – Sr. High retreat. there were 5 nazarene churches, so there were about 50 kids and 50 leaders. It was a very good time. I‚Äôm learning that I don‚Äôt have to have a big finish when I teach. The big finish, the big closing statement, […]