If there's a time for everything, then there's a time for grenades of darkness to pummel our souls, battering the illusions we've built and exposing the raw pain of evil in this world. Some weeks, some days, pastors are right in the thick of the battle, absorbing the explosion. This has been a week of grenades: infidelity, abandonment, unspeakable pain, the idiocy of a pastor in Florida (whose church, in the height of irony, is named "Dove Outreach Center"), and smaller shrapnel as well, in … [Read more...]
The Healer speaks through the stars…
September 9, 2010 By 7 Comments
If there's a time for everything, then there's a time for grenades of darkness to pummel our souls, battering the illusions we've built and exposing the raw pain of evil in this world. Some weeks, some days, pastors are right in the thick of the battle, absorbing the explosion. This has been a week of grenades: infidelity, abandonment, unspeakable pain, the idiocy of a pastor in Florida (whose church, in the height of irony, is named "Dove Outreach Center"), and smaller shrapnel as well, in … [Read more...]
Adaptive Leadership –
September 7, 2010 By 10 Comments
You might remember the book "Into Thin Air" from over a decade ago? It catalogs some teams climbing Everest and attempting to summit on May 10, 1996, a day which became the deadliest day, in the deadliest year, of Everest mountaineering history. One of the heroic stories of that day was the actions of Ed Viesturs and his climbing team, who were on the mountain to make an IMAX film. Though they would summit later, their encounter of the storm created an entire reshuffling of their … [Read more...]
As if…a tiny anniversary meditation.
September 4, 2010 By 3 Comments
I don't know famous people, but this summer I was able to become friends with one of the actors on "The Middle" because his dad and I were in architecture school together. We were all together at a conference where I spoke, and I learned about the challenges and opportunities that come to Christ followers who are professional actors. He told me Patricia Heaton, who plays the mom in "The Middle" is a committed Christ follower. So it was with great interest, two weekends ago, that I listened … [Read more...]
As if…a tiny anniversary meditation.
September 4, 2010 By 3 Comments
I don't know famous people, but this summer I was able to become friends with one of the actors on "The Middle" because his dad and I were in architecture school together. We were all together at a conference where I spoke, and I learned about the challenges and opportunities that come to Christ followers who are professional actors. He told me Patricia Heaton, who plays the mom in "The Middle" is a committed Christ follower. So it was with great interest, two weekends ago, that I listened … [Read more...]
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