My iPod Touch has a nice little sound when a new email comes in. My Outlook does the same thing. My phone buzzes when a text message is sent to me. Junk is popping up on my computer screen all day notifying me of something or another. And in the midst of all of the noise, I have a hard time focusing. I don't know if you're the ... [Continue Reading]
Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
I'm curious how many of you are procrastinators out there. I heard a really great list today of why people procrastinate. See if you can find your reason on the list: You aren't good at separating the urgent from the important You allow others to dictate your schedules by interrupting you You feel overwhelmed, and you don't know where to ... [Continue Reading]
ADVENTURE Update
I had a really great meeting this morning with Pastor Chuck Coleman from Community Church of Columbus. CCC is a sister church of ours, and Kari and I will be meeting with their Missions Planning Group on the first Tuesday of December to share about our ADVENTURE in Brazil. Please pray for that meeting as the church determines if they can support ... [Continue Reading]
Shocking statistic
I'm not one to look much at statistics... I remember hearing in college that 90% of statistics are made up on the spot. However, in a book I'm reading for my Leadership in Ministry class, I read that in a typical church, nearly half of the attendees give $0 (that's right, zero dollars) to the church in a given year! Shocking, ... [Continue Reading]
Make up your mind already
I thought I had a brilliant leadership idea Tuesday evening until I talked to my friend Ethan about it. Apparently I didn't come up with this leadership idea; I unknowingly stole it from Spiritual Leadership! Nonetheless, it's worth noting with proper credit. Leaders have to make decisions. That's the long and short of it. In ... [Continue Reading]
You ‘ re too old to run away
Did you ever run away as a kid? My brothers and I fled once when my parents were going to return our dog, Biff. He wasn't a very nice dog, but he was dog nonetheless, and we didn't want to see him go. So we ran into the woods with Biff for a couple of hours. We had to go home eventually (I think because we were hungry or ... [Continue Reading]
Change is the only constant
Yesterday I watched a really fascinating video for my class on leadership. The lecturer was explaining a principle that is something to consider. A group of researchers wanted to determine how changing the lighting situation in a factory would affect the productivity of the workers. The lights were brightened, and the measured productivity increased by ... [Continue Reading]
What really matters
I'm in Ohio today getting ready to visit my brother and his wife in Mt. Vernon in addition to Kari's grandma and aunt and uncle. I decided that no trip to Ohio would be complete without getting some Caribou Coffee since it's not very accessible in Indiana. So here I sit at Caribou with my Caramel Apple coffee drink, eating a sugar cookie. ... [Continue Reading]
Who cares what I want?
I'm learning in this ADVENTURE of moving to Brazil that my plans don't matter very much. Shouldn't that be true for all of us with whatever ADVENTURE God is taking us on? Sure, we can try to make the plans, but we never know what tomorrow holds. Proverbs 19:21 says, "Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose ... [Continue Reading]
Clarifying confusion
A good friend of mine and I have had a good debate today about whether my church (LifePoint) is actually governed by the Presbyterian form of government. The answer to that question is "yes" because the congregation at my church does not carry any kind of vote when it comes to making decisions. BUT LifePoint is not like a traditional Presbyterian ... [Continue Reading]
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