Leadership
The Right Thing The Wrong Way
There is a wrong way to do the right thing. How many times must we learn that God seeks to leads us from “the what” into “the how” of the ...
Read More Making the Most of What Remains
Thinking about life’s pathway over the last few days, I sought to boil down what it is that I want to do with the remainder of the second half of ...
Read More New Series: The Life of David
Many years ago, Holy Spirit led me to do a personal, intentional study of the life of David. I read every passage in the Old Testament about David's life, and ...
Read More Beholding The New Thing
Dear Kingdom Leaders (and all who follow them), Both the testimony of experience and the testimony of Scripture teach us that Kingdom leaders will need to endure short seasons of ...
Read More Pastoring: The Glories & The Groans
Recently, I saw a pastor post something on Facebook about the pain of being “stabbed in the back” by someone in the church where he serves. He was not vindictive ...
Read More Pastors, Pulpits & People In The Pew
One of the strangest, most unfortunate aspects of the modern church is often found in the expectation of what happens in the pulpit from those who sit in the pews ...
Read More When Methods Become Monuments
Today, I awoke with a specific bible passage on my heart, and thought it might be helpful to share some thoughts on it with you. For a little more than three years, ...
Read More Keeping Your Name On The Short-List
About 3,500 years ago, less than a dozen men determined the next four decades of a massive group of people, possibly over two million in number. It is highly likely ...
Read More What Are You Offering?
You don’t know him but Terry Gou has golden tentacles that reach into most of our lives. He is the richest man in Taiwan and has, at age 59, a ...
Read More 9/11 Immerse Service
Wednesday nights around Meadow have been uniquely blessed of God in recent weeks. Sensing His leadership to overhaul our approach to the Wednesday gathering, we have placed an emphasis on ...
Read More Doing Summer With Purpose
Beautiful skies have been hanging over Atlanta for about a week now. Prior to that were some rather wet and ugly days. I am unsure of where you are as ...
Read More Sunday Recap + An Analysis For Spiritual Leaders
Yesterday was another tremendous day of worship, fellowship and instruction at Meadow. The liberty and spiritual pungency in the services in the last few weeks have been, in my opinion, ...
Read More Appreciating Others
"So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear ...
Read More When Jeff & Phil Collide
Let me predict that this post will disappoint of few of you who want straightforward bible devotions when I post. Most of the time I awake in the early morning ...
Read More Aarons & Hurs Wanted
"But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on ...
Read More Shepherd Bites
Looking into the eyes of the young man across the lunch table from me, I saw what I've had the unfortunate experience of seeing too many times before. He'd just ...
Read More An Appropriate Surrender
For those of you who live outside the United States and may not be tuned in to the political climate here, it is needful for me to inform you that ...
Read More The Best Blog I’ve Ever Written
Okay, I just chose the above title in order to get you to read today's post about leaders and followers. I repent of the manipulation but really hope it works. ...
Read More The Hope In Powerlessness
Be careful with how deeply you long for calm watersHave you ever prayed for God to "get you out of the way"? How often we have longed for an uninterrupted ...
Read More Hiking Trails
Thinking about life's pathway over the last few days I sought to boil down what it is that I want to do with the remainder of the second half of ...
Read More Backtracking Believers
In a little more than a year, should God allow Amy and me to still be here, I predict that there will be a sigh of relief in the Lyle ...
Read More Religion & Politicis – Do You Go There?
"And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do..." 1 Chronicles 12:32 God has only made one ...
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