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I watched a young mother tell her daughter at a swimming pool recently to not go near the water slide around 172 times before I lost count.  Although there was at least 6000 square feet of pool to swim in, this four year old was drawn to the slide over and over.  I don’t think [...]

The other day I drove past a car that had a plethora of old campaign bumper stickers on it. There was the “Bush-Cheney 04” sticker right next to a “Reagan-Bush 84” one, divided by a “Clinton- Gore 96” sticker.  In my head, this conversion van was driven by a church librarian who let her hair [...]

A stroll through Barnes and Noble reveals that leadership is a hot topic, as it should be.  Great companies, churches, governments and families are impossible without good leadership.  All of our lives are affected by our leaders- for better or worse.  So for that, I applaud the recent surge in leadership conferences, books, blogs, and [...]

In a world that has invented sound bytes, headlines, instant coffee, fast food, gogurt, 140 characters, and hot pockets, I am developing an increasing affinity for anything that takes awhile.  Rosanna and I spend an odd amount of time discussing the benefits of French press coffee over instant coffee, slow roasted meats over the salted [...]

Wisdom comes to us from the strangest places. Every once in a while, I hear a line in a movie, a song, or a TV show that is worth more than 50 sermons, 100 books, or $100,000 dollars worth of education.  It’s the moment where God speaks through someone or something we didn’t expect, leaving [...]

I love working with high school students. I have spent the last ten years or so hanging out around youth camps and youth groups, and whether leading small groups at church or speaking at camps, I have learned some valuable lessons from the millions of interactions I’ve had over the years. I want to talk [...]

I talked a few months back at the Orange Conference about the subject of Creativity, a topic that has fascinated me as of late. As I mentioned there, one of the reasons is because I have always held a job with the word “creative” in my title, yet not really knowing how to be creative. [...]

I haven’t had much desire to write as of late, between finishing my first book (yay!) and writing for a living, sitting down at a computer to put thoughts on a screen brings to mind that same feeling I get when I trudge to my basement to do P90X. (Which I don’t do very often) [...]