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We are looking at five implications for leaders taken from Philippians 2:7, where Paul tells us that Jesus “made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant.”  Are we ready to lead in this selfless, sacrificial way?  If so, here is the second of five...

For everyone in leadership who wants to follow Jesus, I would suggest the best place to start is Philippians 2:7, where Paul tells us that Jesus “made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant.” It does not say that Jesus became a man of...

I have to admit I really hate the word ‘wait’.  It symbolizes waste.  We wait at stop lights, wait in doctor’s ‘waiting rooms’, wait in line at the grocery store, wait for checks to arrive in the mail, wait for apologies, wait for waiters to wait on us, and wait...

Where are the Prophets?  We have become a nation dominated by antipathy on one side and apathy on the other.  We are either angry, divided and polarized or we have checked out and just don’t care much anymore.  The angry need to heal and the apathetic need to engage.  We...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend a day working in a carpenter’s shop with Jesus? What would your day be like? I think Jesus would run his carpenter shop like every other carpenter shop.  He would not use any Holy Spirit power to extract a bent...

It has been nearly a month since I have blogged.  Honestly, I have been struggling with spiritual dryness that has left me with little to share.  I have been searching for a way to recover the passion and perspective I had at the start of the year when I made...

If Jesus is ‘the way, the truth and the life” why do we so often feel like we have lost our way, become confused and end up just muddling through life?  Perhaps because our enemy wants to take us off the straight path and lure us into a maze.  He...

It was announced today that the solution to the moral mess in the Secret Service is to hire Johns Hopkins University to give them ethics training.  I am trying to imagine what that must look like.  I always thought that our ethics were the outward manifestations of our primary moral...