I recently read something about anxiety.It turns out: Anxiety is the thing that keeps you from positive change. Huh?  You want to change, but anxiety creeps up and sabotages your effort. How?It connec...  Read More

I’ve seen “Identity” come up in positive psychology lately, and it fits with a biblical understanding. Putting the two together, which I tried to do on Sunday (click here to listen), takes a powerful ...  Read More

Lying on the couch this morning in recovery from surgery for a broken ankle, I’ll bring you in on how I’m coping with a hard situation. I’m in pain. Not much, but enough to get annoyed and distracted....  Read More

A family was struggling with one rebellious teenager who had recently gotten into drugs. A family therapist had come in to help this family relate to one another better and teach them good communicati...  Read More

Yesterday, we were thinking about how good leaders are good communicators. Then we got into ethics and started talking about how not to hurt people with our effective communication: Learn to listen ev...  Read More

I have thrown out any bathwater I can discern and kept the baby of leadership.To put it another way, I’ve been so traumatized by bad leaders that I needed to make sure I believed there should be leade...  Read More

Truly Confident Leader, Pt. 2 Yesterday, I left you with this question:  Do you feel free? Or do you feel like you should feel free?  And I said being honest about this will put us on the road to true...  Read More

I was at a conference and the main speaker was preaching eloquently about how the gospel gives you humble confidence. You get this by going down low in repentance and bouncing up into confidence. He s...  Read More

We’ve been working through the concept of biblical leadership, because I’ve seen what happens when leadership is done poorly. People get hurt. Here’s our list of leadership qualities for this series. ...  Read More

Leadership is dynamite. It is necessary to build, but it can also destroy. The harshest judgment in the Old Testament is for bad leaders.When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the w...  Read More

Billions of people have been utterly ruined by those they trusted to lead them. I thought long and hard about discarding the concept of “leading others,” but I finally concluded that when it comes to ...  Read More

The Character and Nature of the Leader Which is more important, the leader, or his/her vision? The vision is more important. Why? Because a skilled leader with a bad or evil vision will hurt people.  ...  Read More