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Month: April 2010
Vision and Leadership
Here’s an excellent quote on Vision and Leadership:“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Margin
When I was doing my final dissertation for my degree, I became aquainted with the rules of academic writing. My degree program used the fifth edition of Kate Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. One of the first rules of academic writing concerns margins. In fact, one of the members…
Life as Jesus Intended
If I were going to share one verse in the gospels that best describes life as Jesus intended, it would be John 10:10.In the NIV it reads, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”In the NLT, “The thief’s…
Why I Support Campus Ministries
Last night I spoke at Drake University for Amy Schoepf with InterVarsity Campus Ministry. Since January, our church has supported InterVarsity as a line item missions allocation in the budget. It gives me great joy to be able to support a super ministry and a gifted campus minister. As I drove home from their weekly…
Simplicity
The Road to Emmaus (part 3)
Upon arriving at Emmaus, the travelers offered Jesus food and lodging, a typical Jewish gesture. Jesus accepted the invitation, and they sat down to eat. It was at this moment that Jesus’ identity was disclosed. It is not clear why Jesus was given the task of pronouncing the blessing and breaking the bread. That job…
The Road to Emmaus (part 2)
Jesus went “undercover” on the road to Emmaus. As he visits with the travelers on that first Easter morning, he inquires about the reports concerning the events that happened at Jerusalem that weekend. Once the couple recovered from the shock and disbelief that this stranger was clueless about those same events, they began to unpack…
The Road to Emmaus
I’ve recently discovered CBS’ Undercover Boss. I think it’s a pretty cool show. I got into it a little late in the season but have been able to catch up on missed episodes on Hulu. The premise is fairly simple. A CEO of an American company goes undercover for one week to work various frontline…
A Word to Those Who Lack Faith (part 3)
I find it interesting that Jesus doesn’t make much of physical death. On two occasions where he raised people from the dead he called it “sleep.” For Jesus, (and the apostolic writers) the death that matters is the death that takes place at conversion. God’s perspective on death is unique from ours. What we call…