Pastors

In my experience too many Christians are taught to avoid subjective experiences with God. At the close of William Sampson’s wonderful book, Meeting Jesus, he asks, “What was the color of Jesus’s eyes?”

“We are on the wrong side of the tapestry.” How true. We see the knots, the snarls, and the frayed underside. But God is on the right side of the tapestry—the side he is weaving into a beautiful work of art.

If you’re a leader of any kind, you have something you’re dying to work on. Perhaps it is a product, a team, a service offering, or something even more grandiose.

We flourish when we worship God.

I know more about the famous the rich and the beautiful than I probably should, and I know less of Heaven’s beauty than I should. I may know all about Tay-Tay, but what do I know about spiritual celebrity?

There is one quick way to spur organizational change. I have practiced this one for years and it almost always triggers change. It has worked in business, government, and church. It worked in church planting and in church revitalization.

The first time we are introduced to Jesus' family in the gospel of Mark, they seem to think he is crazy. Why is that?

If we aren’t careful, we can find ourselves focused on Bible translations that are commonly “used,” rather than those that are actually “usable.”