Leadership Blog

It’s summer time and for many people it’s time to hit the pool, the beach and maybe even spend some extra time on the ballfield. When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait for summer. It was all of that and a bowl of homemade ice cream. It was hot but no one cared, we had bikes to ride...

"Who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies&rdquo...

These words – horribly beautiful – sum up the past couple years for me. The details are not important, but they are the instrument that has taught me about trusting God with my whole heart. In this season, God is finishing the “blank” of this sentence in many different...

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the King’s horses, and all the Kings menCouldn’t put Humpty together again! Broken…it’s an unfortunate condition of an increasing number of women in the Church today. Our lives are plagued with broken...

Hillsong United has been pushing the creative envelope in the modern worship scene for over a decade. The release of their new album, Wonder is no different in that regard. I remember being blown away by the energy and lyrical anthems that early Hillsong United released for young Christians to...

Growing up I loved watching old WW2 movies with my dad. One of those movies was "A Bridge Too Far.” It's the story of 'Operation Market Garden,’ a plan to seize and hold key bridges in the Netherlands that failed miserably.  The name of the movie is credited to a British Officer...

The first time I watched Naked & Afraid on TV, I could not stop laughing. I didn't quite understand WHY two complete strangers would WANT to try to survive out in the wilderness with no clothes on. Still to this day, it does not make sense to me. They do not know each other, their location...

God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 NASB Pride. It gets in my way of being obedient. Recently, God has shown me that I have not fully stepped into some areas where He has told me to go. I shrink back into safer places. The...

My week probably started just like yours, hearing about the terrorist attack on innocent people in Manchester Area where 22 people died.  Today, “Breaking News” story on my Twitter feed is reporting 23 Coptic Christians were killed in Egypt.  We are often reminded we live...

I am continually astonished at the capabilities of the human mind. It is incredible how much information can be remembered when we set our minds to it. We have phones that can hold hundreds of gigabytes of memory and computers that can hold terabytes, but this pales in comparison to the human...