How prayer walking led to a step-by-step strategy

Leadership lessons simplified: Whatever he says, do it

We experience transformation when we know what Jesus says and turn that knowledge into obedient activity.

Who deserves our ultimate attention?

Presidents and professors deserve our attention. Preachers and prognosticators each deserve their due Sunday by Sunday as one speaks God's words of truth and life and the other tells us who is going to win football games.

Don't waste your life

If God needed a good reason today to let you live tomorrow and beyond, what would you offer him? How would you join him in his work of building a better world?

Reasons for rest even when you're not tired

Sometimes a season requires rest to master new movements, new rhythms of grace and wonder.

Looking for accountability

Young leaders full of ideals and ideas help keep older leaders fresh in their thinking. Older leaders full of experience and wisdom help keep younger leaders from errors that cannot be erased.

Here's how to replace fear

Every heart knows its own concerns. Fear returns every day to scare us with worries about something we may lack.

When the waiting is difficult

Waiting enlarges the space in our lives only God can fill. It stimulates hunger and thirst nothing but God can satisfy.

How contemplative are you?

How contemplative are you? The person who gives focused thought and reflection to his or her life lives, learns, adjusts, and improves going forward.

Keeping watch for the Pharisees of today

If we were to reword priesthood of all believers to pastorhood of all believers, we would likely have a better understanding of the meaning of this idea for today.

Celebrating victories of all sizes

Be on the lookout today for where God proves his love, his kindness, and his generosity in your life.

Biblical lessons for growing as a leader

Even if the only person you lead is yourself, you can work on rooting out resentment, you can choose not to complain, and you can choose loyalty over jealousy every time.

Shepherding with purity and skill

Asaph helps us remember how God has acted in the past on behalf of his people. He reminds us of God's power and provision.

Where God guides, he provides

Where is he leading you today?

Truth that is more than words

Moses experienced God in near-fatal doses. How do you experience him?

Never too old to dream

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream.

Coffee with our Father

Coffee with our Father is the best way I know to begin the day. Listening for his wisdom, applying it to my plans, turning it into a prayer of commitment, and descending the stairs to serve under its direction is the best part of waking up.

What's your six-word story?

If you were to write your life story in six words, what would you say?

Book Review - Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

In the future, there will be two kinds of people in the world: those who let their attention and lives be controlled and coerced by others, and those who proudly call themselves “indistractable.”

In God we should trust

Election Day has come and gone. Do you know what this means? It means television ads are all about Christmas now.