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Uncertainty

By: on March 17, 2023

I recently was discussing my plans for Easter service with the lead pastor. My hope is to try something different. To give some context, the church I attend meets on a campus with four other churches. One of them requested to use the main sanctuary for baptisms on Easter and inquired to see when we…

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Transformational leadership is my twin.

By: on March 17, 2023

Introduction: I must admit being a leadership junkie, whether junkie is a good term or not, the truth is wherever I hear anything about Leadership, especially servant or transformational leadership, my head will turn and move in that direction. The passion for leadership, in my case, didn’t come easy or from desirable circumstances, but I…

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Lots To Appreciate!

By: on March 16, 2023

As I have said in an earlier blog, my NPO is seeking to explore the necessary training Christians leaders need to flourish in their leadership role for the long-term. An assumption going into my research is that the emotional formation of a leader is tragically neglected in traditional Pastoral education, leading to most of the…

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By our Love, by our Love…Love one another.

By: on March 16, 2023

John 13:35 says: “This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, when you love each other.”  One another shows up 100 times in the new testament of the Bible, and Love one another 18 times.  What a powerful commandment.  As I read Simon P. Walker’s “ˆLeading out of who you are: Discovering…

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領袖興起！(Leaders Arise!)

By: on March 16, 2023

In the movie “Shrek,” the ogre Shrek has an interesting dialogue with the donkey.  He describes himself as person with layers – essentially an onion.  Walker’s book, Leading out of Who You Are[1], is a bit like peeling away at the layers of one’s leadership personality over time. Like an onion. Residing with the “comb…

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A Single Grain of Rice

By: on March 16, 2023

I am a big Disney fan. I love watching Disney movies. Disneyland is my happy place. I know. You are shocked. Mulan ranks in my top ten favorite Disney animated films. It tells the story of a young woman who, in order to save her father’s life, takes his place in a draft, taking on…

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“If I Only Had a Second Brain”

By: on March 16, 2023

The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz had a brain all along—he just needed to put it into practice. So too every one of us has a second brain at our disposal—we just need to put it into practice so we can experience just how creative and brilliant we really are. In Tiago Forte’s book,…

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Fig Leaves Then. Performance Now.

By: on March 15, 2023

A few weeks ago, I attended a community luncheon that revolved around mental health awareness. The goal was to break stigmas around psychological and emotional health issues and provide more resources for churches in our area. During the event, some pastors and members in the community shared their experiences of rejection and shame for experiencing…

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A Prison Blanket Perfectly Folded…9855 Times

By: on March 15, 2023

  My one-minute gaze into Nelson Mandela’s prison cell had a profound impact on me. That neatly folded prison blanket represented the dailyness of Mandela’s life for 27 years.  The consequence of not folding a blanket to perfection in the prisons he was kept in would produce a severe beating. A leader who had already…

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What To Do When Your Brain Storage Is Full

By: on March 15, 2023

I enjoy the show Jeopardy. A series of questions and answers covers a broad spectrum of topics. I tend to do well in answering questions in some categories, such as Sports, Geography, and the Bible. I do poorly in other areas like Opera, Poets, and Art. The answers to questions need to come to mind…

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A Simple Yet Profound Tool

By: on March 15, 2023

Tiago Forte, the author of Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life, is a first-generation Californian born to Brazilian and Filipino parents. Inspired by his personal journey, as a young man he suffered an unknown illness. He was functionally incapacitated, had a terrible memory, and could not engage in everyday…

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Wait, I Have to Do Work to Enhance My Work?!

By: on March 15, 2023

The big day had arrived. It was a big deal. My parents had ordered a multivolume set of Encyclopedia Britannica from a door salesman. They opened box upon box upon box. The large black books were gorgeous, numbering 32, and filled the room with that new book smell. The year was 1987. It’s hard to imagine that…

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#Blessed

By: on March 15, 2023

“Our task, as human beings, as human leaders, is…to grow up, to learn, through the experiences we are given, who we are – what it means to be courageous, what it is to serve, what it is to be loved and to love, what it is to be real, what it is to be fully…

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The Power of the Single Leadership Story

By: on March 15, 2023

“Am I really what others say of me? Or am I only what I know of myself?  . . .Who Am I? This one or the other? Am I this one today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? Before others a hypocrite and in my own eyes a pitiful, whimpering weakling? . .…

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I Walk A Lonely Road

By: on March 15, 2023

A Familiar Leadership Maxim It has been said that if you are a leader, but no one is following you, then you’re not a leader. You’re just going for a walk.   This leadership maxim would align with the definition of leadership according to Peter G. Northouse in his book Leadership: Theory and Practice.[1] “Leadership…

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Who I am on the Inside Matters!

By: on March 15, 2023

My missionary career began as a 23-year-old new wife and mother with a fresh university degree in hand. My dream to minister overseas came sooner than imagined. While excited to be heading to Jakarta, Indonesia, I lacked confidence that I was prepared for the work ahead. Nothing magically changed on the 36-hour journey between Seattle…

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Imitate Me as I Also Imitate Christ!

By: on March 14, 2023

Intro Peter Northouse book on Leadership: Theory and Practice is an amazing book on Leadership. After reading this book my head is spinning and I feel as if there is many different ways one can lead. Comparing to the Spiritual Gifts in 1st Corinthians 12 we can come to the conclusion that the most important…

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In defense of a public persona

By: on March 13, 2023

“The showman gives you front row to his heart. The showman prays his heartache will chart. Making a spectacle of falling apart is just the start of the show…” (from the song “The Showman” by U2). The congregation I serve includes actors, musicians, athletes, and other “known” people. Over the years that I’ve pastored here,…

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Walking on Water?

By: on March 13, 2023

Reading through Leading Out of Who You Are,[1] the behaviors of the “defended” leader (Staging, Power, and Control) made a lot of sense to me. As did the various shapes of ego which relate to our childhood experiences of trust. Learning about the types of egos, and how they impact our leadership practices set my…

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Walking with a leader who cares for leaders

By: on March 13, 2023

This past week was one of those weeks where I thought to myself: It would be easier to just be in the background. Maybe even hanging out, for a year or two, on the beach with our twenty-something-year-old kids, “free” from the warp and woof of serving in an organizational leadership role. “Were things really…

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