Friday is for Heart Songs Over the past two weeks, I have watched my son-in-law’s copy of Band of Brothers. It is a fantastic production despite the obligatory HBO twenty second gratuitous sex scene and the true to reality language. It gives an unblinking and authentic gaze at the cruelties and absurdities of war, as … More Band of Brothers and What It Means to Lead
Tuesday Musing About a decade ago, I was musing about the content of a DMin class I just took the week before and thinking about Jesus and primary commands for leaders. What would be the top three commands for disciple/leaders that Jesus gave? (My friend, John Nunnickhoven, added a fourth in the comments.) Confining ourselves … More What are the Top Three Commands of Jesus to Leaders?
Four book recommendations and lots of links to stimulate your thinking. As always, you know the drill … I don’t agree with everything in the links, but I think they are all worthy of a hearing. Growing as a Leader Finding Freedom While Developing Young Leaders (Leadership Freak) Review of Ray Comfort’s New Film (Justin … More Surviving Sharks; Exposing Humility; Developing Leaders and the Doctrine of the Trinity
Weekend Links for September 24, 2011 A shorter list of links this week. I am speaking in Arizona this weekend and have had less time to read. Still some thought provoking stuff here but as always, I don’t necessarily agree or endorse all that is written in them. Growing in Christ Young, Restless and Reformed: … More Young, Restless and Reformed; Charles Dickens and More
Weekend Links Some of the links this week are particularly insightful and provocative, the links on leadership particularly so. As always however, a post listed here is not necessarily an endorsement of all it says. Enjoy. Growing as a Parent and Husband John Piper, Fathering and Kirby Puckett (Barnabas) The Type of Criticism to Never … More Kirby Puckett, Leadership Freak, Fighting Sex-trafficking, Adam and Eve and More
After you read this post, would you pray that my publisher would do a good job of marketing the book? Thanks. See Neutrality Toward Sin is a Disaster for Any Nation.
Weekend Links (August 14, 2011) Last week’s collection of links drew a lot of interest. I hope this week is as helpful. As always, I post the links, I don’t necessarily endorse all of them. But all of them are thought-provoking. Growing as a Leader What are the Biblical Responsibilities of Deacons (9Marks) Standing with … More “Deaconized” Pastors; Amish Lessons; Prophets Among Us and More
Weekend Links Some of the more interesting and helping things I read this week: (The presence of a link here is not an endorsement of all the ideas contained in a post.) Nurturing Your Leadership Skills You get more done when you do less (Leadership Freak) Leading Next-gen Leaders (Brian Dodd) Helping Those You Lead … More Nurturing Your Leaders; Helping Leaders Lead; Getting More Done; What the Gospel is and isn’t; Intelligent Design
Weekend Musings Title of Book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John Maxwell and Zig Ziglar, (Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 1998.) Overview: The book purports to be exactly what its title implies. It suggests that these laws of leadership (I’d be more comfortable if he called them principles.): a) can be learned, b) can … More Brief Review of 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Book: Bill Hybels, Axiom:Powerful Leadership Proverbs, (Zondervan, 2008) Brief Review: This was a book I “knew” I would not like. I was wrong. I could quibble with Hybels about some points of theology that slip through, but the bottom line is that this was a fantastic book on leadership. The 76 aphorisms or axioms that … More Book Review of Bill Hybels Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
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