Founder's Blog
Struggles on the Journey - Forgetting My Identity
How I view myself - my identity - is shaped by my early childhood development, education, vocational life, family life, and church and ministry experiences. Blessing and heartbreak in each of these…
Struggles on the Journey – Lack of Joy
The intent of God is that I live a life of abiding joy. However, I often find myself living inside the story of my circumstances rather than inside God’s reality. The result is a lack of joy…
Struggles on the Journey - My Hubris
Hubris – excessive pride and a sense of self-importance - is a constant temptation for me. Yet if you knew me well, you would understand that my hubris constantly rubs shoulders with the…
Struggles on the Journey - Hiding
As I listened to the story of his journey to Jesus, I was amazed by his nonchalant transparency. As a young boy, he came with his family to North America from an entirely different culture and…
Struggles on the Journey – My Unavailability
While living in Hungary, through an amazing set of circumstances, the President of Hungary made himself available for a 30 minute one-on-one appointment with me. Obviously I made myself available.…
Leading like a Shepherd
Over the years I have read leadership books by Stephen Covey, Peter Drucker and John Maxwell. I learned 7 habits, 5 principles and multiple guidelines – all very helpful. When I need…
The Cost of Forgiveness
I often glibly say, "Please forgive me" - giving little thought to the hurt caused by my words or actions or the cost of forgiveness required of that person. I have been known to think,…
Time vs. Timely
I live feeling impatient, frustrated and constrained inside of time. God, on the other hand, works outside of time – a bit mind-bending since He is also always present with me in my “time…
The Ministry of Faultfinding
In my college literature class I was taught to analyze the works of authors. At times, however, it seemed as if I was searching for and finding fault with literary giants. As a non-literary giant,…
Faith Maintenance
The opening paragraph in my car’s service manual says the following: …