A consistent challenge that leaders face is building consensus when there’s disagreement among board members or other significant leaders in their organizations. I experienced this challenge numerous times, but one remains vivid in my memory. I was leading the board to move the campus to a new location when a mega church in the area offered to give us land—at …
(excerpt from our book, Questions from the God Who Needs No Answers) Looking at Judges 6:1-29 The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” —Judges 6:14 Did you have a nickname when you were growing up? Whether you care to acknowledge …
Vicarious: “shared in by imagined participation in another’s experience” Intimacy: “the state of having a close, personal relationship with someone” Intimate relationship: “an interpersonal relationship involving physical or emotional intimacy” Pain: “what inevitably occurs when you’re in ministry” The first three definitions are paraphrases from Webster. The last? Mine. And it’s 100% accurate. Doesn’t take a genius to predict that …
A few months after our son Robb died, the editor I was working with enquired how I was doing. She asked with sensitive compassion, and since we’d developed enough trust—battling through edits can do that!—I decided to be honest with her. I began my response by saying, “Since it’s you, and I can be real, I can admit that I’m …