Restless Leaders and Winning by Losing

Leaders are restless by nature. A common experience is we set a goal, see the goal realized, and struggle to celebrate because we are already focused on the next goal....
Here are two scenes of two twenty-five-year-old young men. Scene one: A 25-year-old sits alone in his apartment, swiping through dating profiles on the phone. At it for an hour....
Eden, my oldest daughter, is now in her senior year of high school. She just turned eighteen years old! For years, especially during the early teenage years, helping her see...
Luke gives us two powerful progress reports in the early Church. “Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They...
Sigmund Freud, in his “Question of Lay Analysis,” speaks of the power a therapist has over you, even more than a pastor or priest, because of the one-on-one nature of...
When I was pastoring in Miami, God burdened me for people struggling with anxiety and depression and for couples who wanted help in their marriages or parenting but didn’t know...
Single, dating, or married, we are bombarded with messages from the culture about our love lives, and many of the messages are false and damaging. The clichés about our love...
In his book, Leadership Is an Art, Max De Pree said, “the best people working for any organization are like volunteers.” He meant that the best people on your team—the...
In September 2023, I called our young adult pastor, Dallas (he has never lived there), to talk about a burden I was sensing from God. I continually heard from young...
For the last eighteen months, I have been working on a devotional book for teenagers with my oldest daughter, Eden. In partnership with Tyndale, I am excited to announce 50...