Fighting the Need to Increase

September 26, 2012 | Uncategorized

When John the Baptist saw Jesus walking in his presence, he made the declaration, “He must increase, but I must decrease.”  Most Christian leaders would say that in their hearts they would wish that Jesus would increase and they would decrease.  But it is hard to decrease in a leadership...

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Talk about an ‘Aha’ Moment!

September 24, 2012 | Uncategorized

Every once in awhile a short, pithy comment hits you right between the eyes.  You know what its like.  You stand there, mouth agape and head spinning trying to make sense of what you just read or saw or heard.  I have been reading and thinking through the concept of...

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Surefire Way #5 to Lose Your Reputation as a Leader… and live like Jesus.

September 19, 2012 | Uncategorized

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 fifth of five...

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Surefire way #3 to Lose Your Reputation as a Leader… and live like Jesus.

September 14, 2012 | Uncategorized

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 third of five...

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Surefire way #2 to lose your reputation as a leader… and live like Jesus.

September 12, 2012 | Uncategorized

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...

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Five surefire ways to lose your reputation as a leader… and live like Jesus.

September 10, 2012 | Uncategorized

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...

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Getting out of the Maze

May 29, 2012 | Uncategorized

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...

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Secret Service Gets Ethics Training…What is Ethics Training????

May 1, 2012 | Uncategorized

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...

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