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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...