I know that trying to do some progressive things in an “inter-generational” Southern Baptist church is difficult.  Like the old Baptist jokes go, we have to send all decisions to a committee to be researched, then recommended to the deacons or the pastor, then to the church for a vote, then back to committee, on [...]

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Many times when you think of great leaders and successful people you think of Donald Trump and Ted Turner - people with large personalities, who demand things, and there is no compromise.  You think of people that are quieter, seemingly more timid or less gregarious as being weak leaders.
I disagree.  Not solely because I am [...]

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I recently wrote a post about finding your calling in life and doing it with excellence.  I think I pointed out that I felt like everyone has a calling in life - not just people who are involved in full-time ministry.  Since we are all called by God we should do everything we can to [...]

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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." - Andrew Carnegie 

I read this quote this morning and I totally agree with it!  One thing that great leaders do is empower those around them to get better, do better and succeed.  [...]

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I continued my reading through Nehemiah this morning and got to a chapter that I have been looking forward to (Nehemiah 6). At this time, the Jews had completed the wall, except for installing the gates. And Sanballat and Tobiah continued their antics in trying to prevent Nehemiah and the Jews from completing [...]

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In the fifth chapter of Nehemiah, there was an uprising by the Jews to Nehemiah about the hardships they were having to endure, specifically, that they were having to mortgage their land and sell children into slavery just to be able to afford to buy food and pay taxes. Can you imagine that? [...]

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Continuing on through Nehemiah, I read through Chapter 3 recently. This chapter tells how everyone was pitching in with the completion of the wall. It describes the specific places where the people of Jerusalem were building. When you breeze through the chapter you see that there are mayors, nobles, priests, men, women, [...]

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Nehemiah 2
Nehemiah was a “foreigner” who worked directly for the king.  I believe he had a pretty good relationship with King Artaxerxes (King A from here on out) because the king asked him what was bothering him.  “Why the long face?”  I know that your body language and facial expressions can give away your mood, [...]

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I was hanging out one day in middle school with my best friend and he told me, “I think I’m going to start running cross country for the high school.”  That sounded cool to me.  So we started running together.  Everyone morning he would come down to my house around 6 AM and we would [...]

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I love watching The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on CNBC. I always record it on my DVR and watch it while I’m feeding my son. The other night, we watched an episode where Donnie interviewed Barry Sternlicht, the Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group. This is a $15 Billion company [...]

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