Monthly Archive: March 2009

What does power do to the church?

While in Austin last week for SXSW 2009, I enjoyed great food and good conversations at Galaxy Cafe. All 4 of us happened to order French Toast, unbeknownst to each other; Gideon Tsang, Paul Wang, Sam Lee, and me. The...

how to be a movement leader

how to be a movement leader

Rosa Parks, a seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, would not give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955. Historians mark the date of her quiet-but-revolutionary act as the start of the modern civil rights movement in the United...

why sex is for marriage

why sex is for marriage

Once in a while, I get a question via the contact page, and some of them are worth answering in the open for the benefit of all. Here’s one about why God made sex for marriage. Question: I need some...

Bob Buford’s Top 10 Values

Bob Buford’s Top 10 Values

When it comes to vision and values, I wasn’t sure how that actually plays out, how to translate those values into reality, and what it would look like in everyday life. So when I got the latest issue of Bob...

Church can be so much simpler

Church can be so much simpler

Today’s the big day for a blog book tour on Dave Browning’s Deliberate Simplicity. Dave’s clear on the mission of the church, and cuts out the complexity that can so easily distract. The book takes its time to unpack how...

Emotional maturity and stages of development

Emotional maturity and stages of development

Continuing the series on “Developing emotional maturity – part 7 of many”. [cf. part 1: what is emotional maturity? part 2: how to develop emotional maturity; part 3: spiritual maturity; part 4: emotional intelligence; part 5: emotional immaturity; part 6:...

Dave Gibbons. Monkey and Fish. Blog Tour

Dave Gibbons. Monkey and Fish. Blog Tour

Today is the one-day blog tour for Dave Gibbons‘ new book, The Monkey and The Fish. And that means Dave will be roaming the blogosphere for conversations with you! He took a moment to answer a couple of my questions:...