Archive for • Challenge to Action
• Growth by Extension
Growth by Extension On my last trip to Baltimore to visit the grand kids, we had some free time, so we gathered up the kids and went for a walk and bike ride up the street from my son’s home. We stopped at a large grass area that the road circled around. In the center […]
• Holy Discontent
Holy Discontent: A Book Review Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire That Ignites Personal Vision By Bill Hybels, Zondervan Publishers, 2007, 149 pages Holy Discontent is another life-changing book that just might clarify and solidify your calling from God. At first, I was wondering just how this volume would impact me. But I soon realized that […]
• Leaders: Taking Risks #12
Leadership: Taking Risks Taking risks in leadership can be portrayed as reckless abandon, thoughtless, and impetuous decision making that involves danger. However, risk taking that is thoughtful, calculated and purposeful with due consideration to the amount of risk, is to be preferred option. All change involves some risk. However, only doing what is safe, doing […]
• Threading the Pearls
Threading the Pearls I am not sure that you have ever made a pearl necklace. Of course, to make a necklace, you have to have a good supply of pearls, some strong nylon thread, and a needle to insert the pearls onto the thread. We could liken your pearls to the segments of your message: […]
• Leaders: Compassion #11
Leadership: Compassion #11 Compassion is a misunderstood word today. It seems that our culture defines compassion as doing good for those less fortunate, who are victims of fire, flood, earthquake, landslide, tsunami or some other uncontrollable event of nature. I am sure all this is involved with helping in cataclysmic need. But compassion is not […]
• The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect, How your Life Matters (Book Review) By Andy Andrews, published by Simple Truths, 2009, 109 pages, Thomas Nelson (an easy read, lots of photos too) The Butterfly Effect is an unforgettable story about how our world is an incredible life of permanent purpose. It’s about how every move we make and every […]
• Leaders: Weakness #10
Leadership: Weakness! (#10) What images come to mind when you consider Weakness? Maybe weakness is just the opposite of strong or strength. Weakness might look like the lack of muscles, like feeble or the under developed weakling. Maybe you remember Mighty Mouse with super human qualities, but a diminutive form of a mouse? In our […]
• Leaders: Accommodate #9
Leaders: Accommodate (or Chameleon Leadership) #9 This might sound like a strange way to talk about leadership—referencing a Chameleon. Just as chameleons change their skin color in response to light and ambient temperature, children’s ministers must also change their leadership styles in response to leadership styles around them. This is not a statement about being […]
• My Love Affair with Books
My Love Affair With Books The warm embrace of a really good book is what I long for now—a kind of closeness that envelops you. Granted, not all books treat you with this kind of intimacy, but you know it when it does. For me, books did not hold this esteemed place in my childhood […]
• Dancing With Porcupines
Give Away Resources (for current on-line Kidology Protege’s only, (sorry) From my exhaustive collection of the resource materials, I am hereby going to donate, to my current students only, a collection of books on various aspects of children’s ministry. The next one is The Delicate Art of Dancing with Porcupines published by Regal Books, Division […]
