Lately, I’ve been re-discovering the wonder that is the music of the Beatles. After much listening and pondering, here are five leadership lessons from the Fab Four: 1. They went against the grain It’s hard to imagine now, but back in the… Read More »5 Leadership Lessons from the Fab Four
I started a practice in 2009 of trying to read 52 books a year. To be honest, I never really thought I could keep the book-a-week pace necessary to achieve this. In 2009 I read 39 books. In 2010, 16 books. In… Read More »52 Books in 2012: A Recap
What’s in a name? Well, in the case of God, everything. Michael Neale’s excellent book, Your Great Name, walks through the many different names attributed to God in scripture. The framing device of the book is Neale’s popular worship song… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Your Great Name by Michael Neale
I was really excited to listen to Gregory Slayton’s Be A Better Dad Today just because of the title. His enormous list of accomplishments as well as book endorsements from people like John McCain and Chuck Colson, got me even… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Be A Better Dad Today by Gregory Slayton
Check out my previous post “4 lessons I’m learning as a dad”. 1. Love is spelled T-I-M-E Quality time is not possible without quantity time. It’s simple: when I spend lots of time with my boys playing and talking, they… Read More »4 (more) lessons I’m learning as a dad
I can imagine many people rolling their eyes at Robert Morris’ The Blessed Church. I can imagine them saying, “Another book by a megachurch pastor telling me why my church isn’t growing and how I should do more things like his church.” … Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: The Blessed Church by Robert Morris
Ron Carpenter’s The Necessity of an Enemy comes at you fast and furious. The chapters are really short. As in, two-to-three-pages short. The concepts are simply stated; like short jabs to the brain. The stories are real, raw and told… Read More »BOOK REVIEW: The Necessity of an Enemy by Ron Carpenter
Robert Morris in his book The Blessed Church (review coming soon), points out that Moses is the archetypical “pastor;” leading the nation of Israel through the wilderness. Hence, he labels Moses’ prayer in Numbers chapter eleven the “Prayer of the… Read More »The prayer of the burned-out pastor
From The Price of Neglect (pages 104-105): “Dear Lord, I refuse henceforth to compete with any of Thy servants. They have congregations larger than mine. So be it. I rejoice in their success. They have greater gifts. Very well. That is… Read More »A.W. Tozer on comparing ministries
Ok, I’ll admit it: I laughed out loud when I read the title of this book. I only listened to Ken Gire’s Finding God in The Hunger Games out of sheer morbid curiosity. And I have to tell you, it’s… Read More »AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Finding God in The Hunger Games by Ken Gire