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Measuring the Success of Your Family
For 2023, consider making some adjustments for your family. I often say that one of the simple ways to measure the success…
Start with Your Family Stories
Building great family culture starts with stories. Brad Grey of Walking the Text teaches a simple truth: in Jewish families, from birth…
He Thought He Was A Failure After 17 Years of Service
In 1912, Dr. William Leslie went to live and minister in a remote corner of the Congo as a medical missionary. For…
Liberal Churches are Dying, Conservative Churches Thriving
A January 4, 2017 Washington Post article by David Haskell highlighted a Canadian study noting the trend of decline for liberal churches. …
The Hard Days of Parenting
The strains of Vanessa Carlton’s 1,000 miles song filtered through the airport. Of course, I’d have never known it was Vanessa Carlton…
1,000 Stories…At the Airport
A 6am flight means a 330 wake up call, out the door at 4, drop off the rental car. A 6am flight…
The Savage Seasons
While I don’t remember much about my childhood, the days before memory came, I remember my bumblebee sting. They tended to hangout…
Should Donors Be Willing to Give to Overhead?
In the giving world, the supposed magic standard is to spend no more than 10% of your budget towards overhead. Similarly, I…
5 Ways Trump Will Impact the NonProfit World—An Early Look
Let’s face it. Few saw this coming—the defeat of Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump. Even some of the most balanced people I…
Poor Pastors—Literally?
Pastors and money—it’s not a subject you hear a lot about. But the July/August 2016 Christianity Today noted a survey from the…
What do you think of the Obama Legacy?
As of the time of this writing, President Obama delivered his farewell speech. It was one final speech to attempt to sum…