Pastor. Communicator.
I caught a contradiction in my thinking the other day. So my top Love Language is “Acts of Service.” My particular variation of this aspect of the fab five is simply showing up. I don’t feel like I particularly need
Once again, in a meeting. Heard a thing. The thing keeps rolling around my mind. In conversation about a program my work here in Austin manages, we were asked, “Have your participants spoken of a shift from command control to
I am not the best listener. I could be way worse, but I really struggle to listen well. I realize this most, when I’m in the presence of a very good listener. You know, those saints – the ones that
My boss called me out the other day. It was in gentle way, and very much needed. I stumbled into my current role with a local non-profit organization here in Austin. Like most non-profits so much relies on donations and
Holy Week 2021 – Day 1 The Day: Palm Sunday – The Triumphal Entry The Story: read one or more of the following portions of the gospels – Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1–11, Luke 19:28–44, John 12:9–19 The Tradition: Maybe
I had a call the other day, someone had recently experienced a change/shift in her work place. What was a simple and comfortable place to work had morphed into a season of stress and tension. Not knowing if this new
A line from something I recently read… “We want a spirituality of success and ascent, not a spirituality of failure and descent. We want a spiritually of improvement, not a spirituality of transformation. But the way of the cross is
“Something he says during every meeting he leads is ‘what assumptions have we left unchecked?’” I was on a work call as someone shared the above comment about their new COO, remarking on a facet of how he leads meetings.
How would you respond if someone asked you to identify what is most true about you? Would you point toward an attribute? Would you list some qualities, or maybe negative traits? Would you say your experiences are what is most
I have often written and shared on God’s original observation, the stuff God first recognized through the process of creation according to the narrative in Genesis 2. God speaks and moves, and makes things, seeing “it was good.” The pattern