Mar 24, 2016 | Calling, Depression, Leadership, Productivity, Relationships, Rest, Stress, Work
Several years ago I drove an awesome red truck. The day I brought it home from the dealership, my wife’s first response was: “Oh, that’s a cute truck!” Not exactly the response I was looking for. Manly—yes. Awesome—certainly. Cute? Never! The truck had an RPM gauge...
Mar 10, 2016 | Calling, Career, Family, Leadership, Marriage, Productivity, Rest, Stress, Uncategorized, Work
Back in the 70’s, Cheech & Chong put together a shtick entitled: Sister Mary Elephant. The good sister was substitute teaching for Sister Rosetta Stone, and the class’s assignment that particular day… report on their summer vacation. The first young man (in a...
Nov 20, 2015 | Calling, Career, character, Contentment, Family, Leadership, Marriage, Pastor's Kids, Productivity, Relationships, Rest, Stress, Work
Wouldn’t it be great if all a leader needed to know was 3 things? Wouldn’t their lives be simpler? The truth is, a leader needs to know more than 3 things—one reason more books on leadership exist than we’ll ever be able to read in our lifetime. I’ve lost count of the...
Oct 1, 2015 | Calling, Career, character, Contentment, Family, friendship, Marriage, Productivity, Relationships, Rest, Stress, Uncategorized, Work
News broke this week that 11 million Volkswagen vehicles worldwide were fitted with the software designed to trick emissions testing equipment. A few months ago during the summer, NFL fans were inundated with Deflate-gate—a controversy over the illegal deflation of...
May 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last week I posted the following question on Twitter and FB: “At what point does passion degrade into an adrenaline addiction?” Here is a sampling of the responses I received: “An indicator may be when we are unwilling to turn it off for necessary, non-adrenaline...
