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  • We Are What We Love-2

    We Are What We Love-2

    small Bible college in central Indiana when I was not yet 2 years old. He was an educator, professor, and administrator his entire ministry. I grew up on the campus of that Bible college. With the exception of about 2 years off for good behavior, I was in school from 1978 until 2011 when I…

  • Education and the “Good” Life-1

    Education and the “Good” Life-1

    they can do, how they experience their world? From time to time, I wonder what will happen to kids like that over the years by the time they graduate high school.

  • DNA of Biblical Leadership

    DNA of Biblical Leadership

    Some thoughts on church leadership dynamics concerning the roles of preacher and pastor. Ephesians 4 names five “offices” or roles that together make up leadership within the Church. For there to be effective, spiritual, and transformative leadership in the congregation, each of these has to be present and healthy: apostolic leadership – emphasizes the outward expansion of…

  • The Trouble with Biblical Leadership Models

    The Trouble with Biblical Leadership Models

    I am drawn intuitively, personally, and theologically to complexity theory as a substantial means of explaining and understanding organizational life. I particularly react to the premise of leadership as a single leader with particular traits and characteristics who leverages these in order to get people—who, of course, couldn’t otherwise figure out on their own how or…

  • Prayer: Leader’s Most Important Attribute

    Prayer: Leader’s Most Important Attribute

    A recent Sunday School class I was visiting engaged in a discussion about desirable characteristics of Christian leadership. Each class member was asked to rate five characteristics in order from least important to most important. The leader then tallied the totals and the class discussed the differences revealed in the exercise. The five characteristics were prayerful, persuasive,…

  • Euangelion

    Euangelion

    The Gospel is a Person. One who has come to us to tell us that as bearers of the divine image, we were created to enjoy the love and intimacy of our divine good Creator. The Person reveals to us that this Truth about ourselves is foreign and unfamiliar. That somehow in the scope of…

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