Live Intentionally

In Notes from the Twilt-a-Whirl, author N.D. Wilson takes the reader on a ride befitting the title… I found it to be thought provoking and yet thoroughly fun to read. Kind of a Donald Miller meets C.S. Lewis. Not many people can cite the philosophies Nietzsche, Plato, C.S. Lewis, and David Hume in a way that is not only understandable to the average reader but interesting and even entertaining.

Share Last night my church gathered together for the last of our Wednesday worship services. We watched a video teaching by Louie Giglio called How Great is Our God. In it Louie tried to give a picture of just how big God’s creation is. Our earth is an amazing place, pretty big too. But did [...]

Share I’m looking forward to attending the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta in October. It’ll be my first time at Catalyst, and I’ll be hosting an exhibitor booth for OurChurch.Com.  Although it’s probably not best for business, I’m kind of hoping everyone will stay in the arena while the speakers are speaking so I can listen [...]

While our vacation in the North Georgia Mountains was wonderful, there were a couple of things that frustrated me, and way more than they should have. My reaction to them was strong enough to cause me to ask myself, “What is really going on here?” And in the span of about 15 minutes I learned two important leadership lessons.

I spent last week with my extended family in Helen, GA – my two brothers, their families, and my parents. Whenever you take a trip of this magnitude you’re bound to forget something, and we forgot the worst of all possible things. The one thing that absent would make our entire trip miserable…

Share One of Great Britain’s most internationally recognized statesmen, Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007. During his tenure he helped transform Britain’s public services in education and health care and is widely credited for his contribution towards assisting the Northern Ireland Peace Process. He continues [...]

Share Bono is the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, which has sold more than 140 million albums and won numerous awards, including 22 Grammys. A well-known activist in the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa, he co-founded DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) in 2002, The One Campaign in 2004, and Product [...]

Share Chip Heath is an author, consultant, speaker, and popular professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Management. His unique research on what makes ideas succeed has been featured in a wide range of popular media programs and publications. Dan Heath is an insightful and engaging communicator, widely recognized business consultant, researcher, and entrepreneur. He has [...]

Share Editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report and political analyst for CNN and PBS, David Gergen has served as a White House adviser to four presidents; Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. He is also a professor at Harvard’s School of Public Leadership. An active participant in American national life for 30 years, Gergen has [...]

Share Dr. Wess Stafford, President of Compassion International, is an internationally recognized advocate for children in poverty. Founded in 1952, Compassion is one of the world’s largest Christian child development agencies, partnering with more than 65 denominations and thousands of local churches in order to serve more than one million children in 24 countries. Though [...]