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Category: Ideas

  • The Whole Earth is Filled

    This morning during a devotional time, Isaiah 6 was read. They are familiar verses to me, and it wasn’t anything that I hadn’t heard before. But a phrase jumped out at me like never before. “The whole earth is filled with His glory.” I love that line. For whatever reason,…

  • LL3: Find a Mentor

    I had originally titled this post – Have a mentor, but that is not what I want to communicate. The new title is much more appropriate to the lesson that I have learned. Having a mentor is great. Many of us have mentors. I have many mentors. I need many…

  • Lev Update

    My brother Lev is out in Afghanistan. He is in the Navy stationed at a British base working at the hospital in the OR. I blog about the stuff that he tells me that is going on out there. It’s pretty crazy and insane. I was thinking about my problems…

  • LL2: Leadership Competencies

    I was in a class a few days ago, and these 4 competencies came up. These 4 levels of competence work for leadership development, but the application fits pretty much any skill or competency. 1. Unconsciously Incompetent – it is possible to not know that you don’t quite have the…

  • LL1: Know the limits of leadership

    Every leader has their limits. Every leadership position has its limits. Knowing the limits of both will make you a better leader. I sometimes try to do things beyond my leadership abilities – which most times leads to frustration and stress. There are things that I am able to do;…

  • Michael Jackson’s Identity Formation 2

    I just watched a little bit of the Michael Jackson tribute.  I just turned it on, in the middle of it. They just played a clip of Michael saying, “I want to be known as a person, not just as a personality.”  Oddly enough, it was just followed by a…

  • Give them a voice

    My wife was watching Into the Wild tonight – the Sean Penn version of the story of Christopher McCandless. It was great watching it again.  The first time I watched it, I just watched the movie to get the story.  Typically, the second time I watch a movie, I process…

  • Freedom

    What are your thoughts on Freedom?  We just celebrated our Freedom and the Freedoms that we enjoy in this country – and wow we celebrate in an interesting way. The focus of the service in church yesterday was also Freedom.  It was really interesting for me as a worship leader,…

  • A prayer request

    I just got an im from a friend and this prayer request. Pray for Kate McRae

  • Michael Jackson’s Identity Formation

    So I have avoided watching anything on tv about Michael until tonight. I just finished watching it and I had a few thoughts about his identity formation. I am sure that I could do more research on this, but I probably will not. There were three ideas that stood out…

  • Forgetting those things which are behind

    status of my soul and how i forget.

  • Turn Spam into a Spiritual Discipline

    I don’t normally get this much spam e mails from my work e mail. They block pretty much everything – and sometimes I don’t receive e mails that were meant for me. I have to check my Junk Mail every now and then. I asked about it a few days…