To Parents: College Students Home for Christmas?
Back in fall 1992 when I was a college freshman, I remember anticipating that first Christmas holiday break with excitement as well as dread. On the one hand, I couldn’t wait for the semester to be over, for exams to be over, for the stress of the academics to be over—at least until the new…
Build This Skill First to be a Better Strategic Planner
One of my joys is getting to talk with the young leaders I work with and teach about how they build their careers and grow their influence. Likely the most common question I get from them is about how one goes about learning how to build strategy. While strategic planning is one of the most…
A Beautiful, Powerful, and Unlimited Church
“There is one body and one Spirit- just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call- one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” Ephesians 4:4-6 (ESV) God’s global church is not something I had given…