This weekend I read Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear, the latest book by Max Lucado. We certainly live in an era of fear. Every day the news is filled with stories…
Author: Paul
How can a loving God send people to Hell?
I never much cared for hell. The idea of a loving God sending people to a place of eternal punishment always sounded overly-harsh and inconsistent with the character of a God who loves us enough to create us and sacrifice his Son for us. Then I read Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl in which N.D. Wilson explains hell in a way that totally rocked my world…
Book Review: Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl
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.
How ‘Bout A Standing O for the Big G
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…
Last Day to Save Big on Catalyst Conference
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…
Things I Learned on Vacation: 2) Don’t Move the Goalposts or the Ball
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.
Things I Learned on Vacation: 1) Breaking Routine is Good… Sometimes
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…
WCA Leadership Summit Session 9: Tony Blair
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…
WCA Leadership Summit Session 8: Bono
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…
WCA Leadership Summit Session 7: Chip and Dan Heath
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…