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Category: Ideas

  • Pithy Quotes

    I call them pithy quotes and many of them are. I recently asked a friend for all of his pithy quotes. I’ve always enjoyed them. I remember some of them from when we were in college – almost 20 years ago. Recently, I asked him to send me some of…

  • Supernatural Love

    I had the opportunity to address the faculty and staff today. I had to share the theme for the year and explain it – the theme was provided for us, and I did my best to explain it to everyone. As I was explaining the theme and sharing today, I…

  • Fascinating

    It is so fascinating to see how the world is changing. I haven’t been blogging that long. Every now and then I check to see who’s looking at my blog. I get comments from people that I know, but I think I get more comments from people that I don’t…

  • Inside Out

    That’s the theme for next year at San Diego Christian College. I’m going to present it to the faculty and staff on Monday morning. I will be ready for it, but I’m still working on it. The main idea is that the good inside someone will find its way out…

  • The Story Telling Problem

    Just was listening to a talk from Malcolm Gladwell. In it he talked about the Story Telling Problem. If you click here, you can read about one version of it. Here’s a quote: “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We’re a bit too quick to come up with…

  • BBC America

    I enjoy watching BBC America. I can understand the English, but beyond that, it’s so vastly different. I mean, I’ve been to Great Britain. I had a great time when I was there, but my vacation there wasn’t enough to really and truly appreciate just how different they are. I…

  • A Deaf Musician

    Have you ever heard a deaf musician play music? Have you ever heard of a thing? How can someone that can’t hear with their ears learn how to make beautiful sound? Well, they would tell you that they listen with every part of their being then. Just because they can’t…

  • Youth Ministry

    I also blog at The Journal of Student Ministry – but if you’ve read my previous posts about it, they “approve” your blog. A blog that needs approval isn’t a blog, but it’s cool. I submitted one this morning, but in case it doesn’t approved, I didn’t want to waste…

  • I Forget

    No matter how hard I try to remember, I forget. That’s one of the reasons why I have enjoyed the discipline of blogging. Blogging has helped me to remember. I forget way more than I can keep in my mind. It’s been so helpful to process through stuff. In fact,…

  • LL8: Everyone’s a Leader

    There is a new paradigm of leadership where the leadership of an organization are not the only ones expected to lead. The new way is where everyone in the organization is expected to demonstrate leadership – not just the leader. It takes a pretty secure leader to foster an environment…

  • LL7: Leadership and Insecurities

    Another lesson that I am learning about leadership is that every leader has insecurities. It doesn’t matter how much power you have and how high your position is. Every leader has them. Somehow though, the good leaders learn how to deal with it. They take their leadership opportunities and their…

  • Leadership Training

    I was listening to the Tribes audiobook this morning on the way to work. Seth says that we have been trained for years to avoid leadership. That definitely resonates with me – I can think of opportunities where I consciously avoided leadership, but what how about the unconscious avoidance of…