Jim Collins – Good Stuff
Like many of you, I have come to appreciate Jim Collins’ work. His book, Good to Great, helped me articulate some of my hunches about leadership (can anyone say hedgehog?).
Yesterday, Mark Maines,…
Archive: March 2009
Sabbath
This weekend I spoke at the Mother/Son Retreat at Forest Home. One of the many reasons I wanted to speak there was because I was able to bring our eight year-old son. Nathan and I had a…
Properties of Play
I’m reading (well, actually skimming) a book called Play by Stuart Brown. Brown is a medical doctor, a former professor at U.C. San Diego, and the founder of the National Institute of Play. His book has received a bit of…
Busy Kids
In the Powell family, we’re on a hiatus from kid sports. Soccer and basketball are done and we’re taking a break. Every night we’ve been home this week, we’ve been outside, riding bikes. Usually our neighbors and their kids join…
Four Quadrants
I’m reading Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence and I must say that my favorite part is the last chunk in which she describes different strands in church today. I’ll way over-simplify what she has to say by…
Authority
I’ve been reading Phyllis Tickle’s new book, The Great Emergence. It’s good; lots of interesting insights about how history, culture, and the church have been woven together for the last 2000 years.
One of the central questions…
Senior Pastors
Last Friday I was in Palm Desert speaking about . To my delight, one of the questioners at the end of my presentation asked, “So I’m a senior pastor. What are the first steps our church should take?”
He was…
Top Five
In case you missed yesterday’s E-Journal…
Here are the top five most-accessed resources from FYI for Jan-March 2009!
1.5 Million Kids on the Street
In case you’ve missed the recent increase in media attention to the issue, homelessness in America is on the rise, especially among families. Certainly cause for prayer and for action in the Church.
What’s equally or perhaps even more disturbing…
The Seventh-Grade Moral Compass
Last week the Wall Street Journal shared about a recent Michigan State University study of seventh-graders looking at the connection between morality in real life and online. In other words, what’s acceptable to a 12 or 13-year-old…