Serving Bread

My nearly three year old daughter is my resident theologian. After our nightly prayer, she turns to her mother and confesses, “After I pray I feel happy.” (Incidentally, she actually had been feeling unusually sad this evening before the prayer time)

The best corporate leaders never point out the window to blame external conditions; they look in the mirror and say, “We are responsible for our results!” Those who take personal credit for good times but blame external events in bad times simply do not deserve to lead our institutions. – Jim Collins, “Fortune Magazine” May [...]

Some of our students compiled this video…

Every single presidential candidate is promising that he or she will make our lives better if we elect him or her to the White House. He or she will give us change, offer us hope, make our breath sweeter, make us more prosperous, more productive, happier, better educated, holier and healthier if we cast our [...]

Leadership is messy. There are an obsessive amount of books on how do leadership well, and sometimes they make it seem that if you just do the prescribed formula, then you’ll be fine as a leader. Many of the books are fantastic with great tools and insights that have shaped my leadership. However helpful the [...]

I’m not much of a prayer warrior, but with gas prices up (with no relief in sight), I may have to join this group of the faithful. It seems that when all else fails (politics, capitalism, boycotts, economics), turn to God. The price of oil continues to rise, and people are now bracing themselves for [...]

I’ve been co-leading a small group Bible Study this semester out of the book of James. My only impression of the book until studying it this semester is that it’s practical and that it provides a sort of “anti-thesis” to the argument that it’s all about faith and no works. But James and his letter [...]