Live Intentionally

Share Today I was pleased to learn that my church has taken up the Porn Challenge idea I wrote about a couple of days ago.  To summarize, the challenge is for EVERYONE to install x3watch accountability software that monitors the websites you visit and emails a report to an accountability partner.  With everyone doing this [...]

Share So, today is Ash Wednesday which marks the start of Lent, the weeks leading up to Good Friday and Easter.  People have been known to give up all sorts of things for Lent including chocolate, caffeine, sex, meat, swearing, and TV.  This year the hot items to give up seem to be Facebook and [...]

Share I’ve been an annual participant in Willow Creek’s Leadership Summit for quite a few years now, and blogged the sessions live the last 2 years.  It’s always one of the most impactful events of the year for me.  Today Will Creek announced the line-up of speakers for the 2009 Leadership Summit. They include:

Let’s join together – those who have struggled with pornography and those who haven’t – to break the cycle, hold each other accountable, and take a stand against future temptation.

Share They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such a thing as a free book.  The folks who organize the Catalyst conferences are giving a free book just for calling the concierge at 888-334-6569 (hit option 1).  There’s absolutely no obligation to buy anything or register for a conference [...]

Share Let me preface this post by saying even though the article referenced below was written by a pastor and talks about Christians and spiritual issues, the question is much broader than that.  Is it wrong to be average – not just in ministry but in all aspects of life – career, relationships, parenting, community [...]

Share Interesting conversation going on at Monday Morning Insight and Slow Leadership about why we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. “Given the number of mistakes most of us make, you would think we would quickly learn how to do better. Mistakes involve pain, embarrassment and loss—things no one likes to experience—yet [...]

A person’s success is directly proportional to the number and size of the failures they’re willing to risk. So, figuring how to fail better and more often will help us succeed.

Today’s Leadership Wired eNewsletter includes an article by John Maxwell entitled Investment Strategies for Relationships. In it he says people fall into three broad categories: takers, traders, and investors. But is that the best we can do?