This personal growth plan process stems from my desire to develop and disciple young leaders who will serve as fifty-year warriors and not five-year wonders.
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Mechanically living our Christianity as a series of events can eventually lead to becoming weary in well doing (Galatians 6:6-9). Evangelism, discipleship and spiritual growth should be more than events filling prescribed time slots; they should be a part of our personal DNA. Two of the greatest perils to ministry are; just going through the motions and just meeting expectations.…
Did you make New Year’s resolutions for 2021? Are you on track or have you decided to chunk them into the trash with the leftover pizza? Don’t get me wrong, I am not negative about this yearly “Resolution Ritual,” but I want to suggest a better approach. I wrote this blog a couple of years ago and it seemed to…
To say COVID 19 has affected our lives would be an understatement. Everything from our schedules, routines, inter-personal relationships, and, eating habits are all victims of this quarantine. There seem to be more questions than answers and most of us are asking some of the same questions. How long is this going to last?Am I buying stuff on Amazon to…
Although I had fast-forwarded through the commercials (awe…the endorphins) it still took over an hour of viewing time to complete one 45-minute show. The reason, I concluded, was the number of times I had pressed the pause button on the remote. I press pause for three valid reasons: I’m hungry and want a snack.My wife has something “important” to tell…
A few years ago, I came to a sobering life realization: I was not going to live long enough to accomplish everything on my bucket list. I was in fact going to have to be more intentional with my prioritizing and cross some things off my long list of goals. Crossing things off my list was disconcerting because I hate…
“Good enough is the new perfection” captured my attention as I read the words on a t-shirt. I found it to be extremely intriguing and simultaneously troubling. Was this meant as a joke or an excuse? I admit to being a perfectionist - or shall I say “given to excellence” (as I prefer to refer to my tendencies). However, lowering…
I am a flash, bang, dazzle type of person. I like the big moments of life and ministry. Music moves my soul, especially when it crescendos. Fireworks are exciting but my favorite part is the finale. However, it is not wise to build a life or ministry on crescendos, finales, and dazzle because they are not sustainable. Real life and…
Watching children play can be fascinating. Their vivid imaginations allow them to be almost anything, go any place in the universe and be anybody they choose to be. They fantasize about accomplishing feats far beyond their physical, emotional or mental abilities. The other day I was watching a group of children playing where a little boy was the self-appointed leader.…
My friend, Dr. Ray Pritchard, tells the story of a professor who, along with his son, went on a thousand-mile backpacking trip from British Columbia to southern California. They faced discouragement from lack of food and water, the danger of wild animals, days of rain and mud, physical exhaustion, bodily injury, loneliness, mosquitoes, and the extremes of weather. Ray says…