I’m convinced God gave me a ‘Geek’ gene. From my monopoly on science fair first prizes in high school to my toy tank that fires bb’s to my radio-controlled helicopter that shoots plastic missiles, I love any gadget that runs on electricity. I’m also among an elite 50,000 who bought the very first Macintosh in

This year, Leadership Network asked about 50 seasoned leaders to share via a short 6 minute video what they had learned from ministry. Such leaders as Wayne Cordeiro, Chip Ingram, David Loveless, Gene Getz, and Carl George gave talks. I was asked to be one of the presenters. I entitled my talk, Why Pastors are

I spent this Thanksgiving at my daughter’s bedside as she lay in the hospital recovering from her second brain surgery in two weeks. The doctors confined her to bed to allow a slender tube they had inserted into her spinal chord to drain brain fluid that had begun to leak from her first surgery’s incision.

I want to give you the latest update on Tiffany so u can pray. Monday she had her staples removed from her head. Pretty non-eventful until Tuesday when fluid began to leak out of some of the staple holes. The neurosurgeon asked us to come in and ascertained that the incision was leaking spinal fluid.

Each November I bring an annual “vision” message to explain the big picture for the coming year and hopefully motivate buy-in. – I seldom look forward to it because I feel incredible pressure to bring a message so inspiring that people will be willing to take on hell with a water pistol. Much of the pressure

My wife and I just returned from a conference in Bogota, Colombia where we taught pastors and their wives. We were privileged to serve with Juan Carlos Flores Zúñiga and his wife Orietta who arranged the conference through his organization. Lance Witt and his wife Connie were also on the teaching team. He served as

Last week I attended Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit at a local video venue. As usual, the speaker line-up was superb. I used my iPad to capture my learnings and these these seven stood out. We can hear the whispers from God when we lower the ambient noise in our lives. Bill Hybels, The Power of

It’s exciting to see many churches embracing community and missional ministry more than ever. When I grew up, I can’t remember being challenged to go out into my community to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the poor and under-resourced. Perhaps that’s why it took me so long to personally ‘get it.’ The

Although my kids are well beyond the teen years, I wish I could have given them this devotional when they were kids. Daniel Darling, a friend of mind, provided me a complementary copy of his new book called, Crash Course, forming a faith foundation for life. Although written for the teen in mind, I was