Leadership

If you haven’t noticed, my blog has been pretty quiet for the past few weeks. It’s been a busy time with all the excitement of the Christmas season, and I have definitely been doing a lot of planning and thinking. For the first time in my life, I’m thinking through some long term goals. In order for me to be the best

I wanted to share a couple of memorable moments from Catalyst. One was crazy and the other was powerful. Professor Splash set a new world record high dive. He dove from a tower over 35 feet high into a pool with only 12 inches of water. Check out the video below. It’s another crazy world record from the Catalyst Conference.

If you are a leader, then let me share with you a great source of free leadership lessons.   Andy Stanley’s Leadership Podcast is great for both those in the business world and in the church world.  Each month a new 20 to 30 minute lesson is posted and every single one of them has been exceptional.  Click here to

While on vacation, we spent several afternoons in Barnes & Noble cooling down, enjoying the Starbucks and air conditioning.  I saw a huge display of twilight books, and it made me do some thinking.  I know many people who have read through the entire series in a very short amount of time, typically in under a month.   I did

I have been meeting with a group of young pastors for the past several days.  We are part of a leadership development program called uptick and we are being coached and mentored by a pastor who has a huge heart for helping younger leaders.  Our topic this week has been accountability.   We all know the importance of friendship and

At our First Wednesday Service at Cornerstone last night, Sam shared about Christian leadership. He shared some examples from a blog post by Tony Morgan. I also talked about the importance of leadership development this past Sunday.   But you cannot talk about Christian leadership without talking about the character and integrity of the leader. We all have influence, how

In some ways, looking back over the last 15 years, I realize that I have been a reluctant leader.  In 1 Timothy 4:14, Paul shares with Timothy this challenge, “Do not neglect the gift that is in you …” I feel that I have done exactly that.  It was at the Catalyst Conference two years ago, when I really started

Thanks to Tony Morgan for putting the Unleash Main Sessions on his blog at TonyMorganLive. Here are the two main sessions. You can see my notes for the morning session and the afternoon session.

In the afternoon main session, Perry spoke directly to leadership and pastors.  It was a time of encouragement and empowerment.  It was similar to his message at the Whiteboard Sessions last year, but I never grow tired of being encouraged in the ministry.  Perry shared 4 questions for all the pastors from the story of Moses in Exodus 33. Question

I want to share a few of my notes and thoughts from the Unleash Conference. It was my third year in a row in attendance and it was a great time of encouragement and teaching.  Perry Noble is a passionate preacher and he was extremely bold and direct in his first message.  But he said some things that needed to

I’m driving down to Anderson, South Carolina on Wednesday for the Unleash Conference at Newspring Church.  It’s a one-day conference on Thursday that has made a huge impact on me.  I’ve been the last two years and you can’t help but be challenged by their enthusiasm and passion.  It is amazing to see how God has grown their church and