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FOLLOW THE LEADER

Paul was so inspired by Christ’s example of suffering, sacrifice, and death, that he imitated his Captain’s acts of heroism. In turn, he reproduced heroic men, and drew brave men to himself on his missionary journeys. A good leader who inspires courage in others cannot be underestimated. Captain Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark fame…

Super Teams

The Avengers rocked the box office because the producers knew that superhero team ups offer much more than the spotlight on a solo hero. An interplay of highly specialized skills is necessary to slam evil, and advance the cause of Christ. If that’s the case with Superheroes, why wouldn’t it be the case with church…

HE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE

Continuing from my previous blog, when you look at Paul, there was no “i” in his name, or in his methods. Paul recruited teams of diverse leaders. Like a wise master builder (or contractor), Paul was able to draft plumbers, framers, roofers, and electricians so to speak when it came to leadership. When you combine…

Fist Leadership

Make a fist. Now look at it. You’ve just created a weapon. A powerful one if the arm behind it knows how to throw a punch. Welcome to FIST leadership. Unfolding your fingers so that they’re extended examine them individually. On their own, each finger isn’t

The Church Planter

In WW2, Dwight Eisenhower, along with our European allies were faced with the daunting task of taking Europe back from the Nazis. The largest problem that they faced was the challenge of transporting an entire army across a large body of water in order to form the tip of the spear thrust, and drive Hitler’s…

Paul and Church Planting Assessment

Statistically speaking 70% of church planters fail. Those statistics turn around dramatically if the church planter has been assessed, trained, and coached competently and consistently. Church planting organizations, networks, churches, and denominations have all worked out their own systems about how church planters should be assessed, trained and coached. I wrote in my…

Creating A Church Planting Hub

There are a few times that I share my consuming passion. I’m consumed with training church planters, as I know the Apostle Paul was. The thing is, he kept getting better and better at it. I know that we can too. On today’s podcast, I share about how to create an Ephesus style church planting…

16 Years From Now…Where Will you Be?

So, I had a conversation with my mentor, Mac Lake. Mac is a dynamo of all things leadership related. He’s probably forgotten more than I’ll ever know. I was recently speaking with him on the phone when I had a conversation about some large opportunities looming on the horizon. Mac spoke to me about the vision for…

A Preacher of Preachers

My mentor of 25 years went home yesterday… I stood on a balcony at a coffee shop in Atlanta crying like a baby after receiving the news from Wales. When I was 19 years old, I ventured to Wales, the land of my Fathers with a backpack and a mountain bike. I deep dove into…

VOICES THAT CARRY INTERVIEW A NINJA

From time to time I get interviewed on other shows. I don’t often share them because it feels a lot like “look at me, look at me!” But I enjoyed doing this with the guys over at Voices That Carry, and even though I may not be wired for the social media age (I constantly…