The new year is just a few days away and I want to take a few moments to be far more directive in this post than is typical. This is due to a spontaneous coaching conversation I just concluded with a young ministry team that was struggling with some very primary issues in their spiritual […]
“Chasing time,” that’s what they called being in a hurry when I lived in east africa. “You’ll never catch him,” that was always the response.
Such wisdom from people on whom the concepts of time, agenda, calendar, rush and hurry were largely lost. Many a day I yearn for that same approach with its […]
This morning I drove by an unfinished construction project. An abandoned commercial building that now stands as a lasting monument to a vision that has died or at least very significantly delayed. It died or was delayed despite obviously significant money, labor and time had been invested, none-the-less something happened that stopped the construction.
Why do […]
First the good news: today two different leaders asked me to become their coach. Now the bad news: neither of them could tell me exactly what it was they wanted me to do for them. Not one of these two could tell me what their goal was or in what they wanted to be coached. […]
The purposes of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. Proverbs 20:5 NIV