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September 2015

September 14, 2015

My Charity Work is More Degrading Than Yours: Lessons in Leadership from Middle School Fellowship – Part 3

In spite of all the chaos associated with leading the middle school youth group, I...

September 11, 2015

My Charity Work is More Degrading Than Yours: Lessons in Leadership from the Middle School Fellowship (2)

I’ll admit that leading middle school fellowship was not the most glamorous of choices for my...

September 09, 2015

My Charity Work is More Degrading Than Yours: Lessons on Leadership from the Middle School Fellowship (Part 1)

Here’s a valuable tip for those of you thinking about volunteering with your church’s middle-school...

September 07, 2015

What Are You Afraid Of? (2) God Might Want You to be Terrified Sometimes

Continued from the previous post. I believe that the strength of our faith in God can...

September 04, 2015

What Are You Afraid Of? Don’t Let Your Fears Hold Back Your Dreams

When I was twenty years old I had an intense interest in songwriting. I wanted...

September 02, 2015

Are You Dealing with Complexity, Ambiguity and Failure? Congratulations. And Welcome to the Real World.

We have a saying here at my company: we like to see managers get “bloodied...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

The Ultimate Advice for Aspiring Leaders: 6 Non-Negotiables

For all of you aspiring leaders out there, let’s just cut the crap and get...

August 28, 2015

How to Not Suck as a Leader

This Blog’s tag line says “Connecting Business Life with Spiritual Life.” Sometimes I stick very...

August 25, 2015

Forgetting to Remember God (#4 in a series)

Continued from the previous post and the one before that and the one before that. So...

August 23, 2015

Forgetting to Remember God (#3 in a series)

Continued from the previous post and the one before that. This was not a small...

August 21, 2015

Forgetting to Remember God (#2 in a Series)

Continued from the previous post. But then again, maybe there’s more to it than just...

August 14, 2015

Forgetting to Remember God

I completely forgot about God for two entire weeks. I know, that sounds terribly unspiritual...

August 10, 2015

Thou Shalt Love Thy Customer: A Revealing Visit to Starbucks

I love Starbucks. No, I really love Starbucks. You need to know this about me....

August 04, 2015

Was That an Angel? A Mysterious Encounter at Penn Station

Once I took a train into New York City to attend a “Deal Making Conference.”...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Can We Be Used For a Mighty Purpose?

Here is a great quote of George Bernard Shaw, from Man and Superman: "This is...

July 24, 2015

Sacred is the New Secular

A few weeks ago I came across a Blogger who was whining like a little girl...

July 19, 2015

Meditation for (Christian) Dummies: #4 in a series

Read about how I got here here, here, and here. So. I’m about five minutes...

July 16, 2015

Meditation for (Christian) Dummies: #3 in a series

Continued from previous post and the one before that. The word I chose to meditate...

July 14, 2015

Meditation for Christian Dummies (#2 in a series)

Continued from the previous post. It seemed like meditation could be an important spiritual discipline to...

July 10, 2015

Meditation for (Christian) Dummies

My mentor, Dr. Payne, suggested that I start meditating. He mentioned it one day as...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

What Am I Supposed to Do With the Rest of My Life?

Lately my lungs shut down while I’m sleeping. They just decide to stop working, like...

June 22, 2015

The Purpose of Work

As some of you may know, I go to a Presbyterian church. It’s located in...

June 13, 2015

27 Things To Do Before I Die

I've been reading the book "Becoming a Resonant Leader" (Harvard Business Press). One of the book's tenants...

June 05, 2015

Even Jesus Got Annoyed

I can pretty much guarantee that the disciples were annoying at times. I mean, come...

June 01, 2015

Do Not Worry: There is a Spiritual Economy, Too (#3 in a series)

Continued from previous post and the post before that. On the days when I'm feeling...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

How to Know When You’ve Finally Arrived

Here is an excerpt teaser from my e-book, At Work as it is in Heaven. You...

May 23, 2015

The Myth of Calling

When I was nineteen years old, I wanted more than anything else in the world...

May 22, 2015

Do Not Worry About Domestic Life? (#2 in a series)

Continued from previous post. So here’s what that cynical voice in my head is saying...

May 19, 2015

Do Not Worry? Really?

These are worrisome times we are living in. There is an unprecedented global financial crisis,...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Why Yelling at People is Not the Best Motivational Strategy

I once hired a gentleman – let’s call him Aaron – on a contract basis...

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