We live in a world reeking of complexity.  We add more and more things, more activities, and more options.  You can’t buy a pizza or even go to the grocery store without being overwhelmed by layer upon layer of complexity.
For people, organizations, and movements to be successful into the 21st Century, we’re going to have [...]

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I read a blog the other day that went on the attack of another person.  It wasn’t the person’s idea, style, beliefs, as much as it was naming the person.
The sad truth is that the blog had a lot of good points to make: things to watch out for, pitfalls in leadership that we can [...]

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All of us were born to talk.  God gave us the gift of language so that we could be close, not just right.
But some people talk so well, we call them public speakers.  They speak professionally, and the vast majority, my experience teaches me, do it rather poorly; or at least on the level of [...]

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(continued from 4/8/09)
Reason #5: I don’t believe in Jesus because I am a professional Christian. I am a professional Christian and I have been one all of my life.   Between college, seminary and graduate school, I spent 10 years in academic training.  I’ve written books about Christianity and the Christian life.  I make my [...]

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(continued from 4/7/09)
Reason #3: I don’t believe in Jesus because I was raised in church.  A lot of people have the idea if you were raised in church you automatically get the Jesus thing.  Well, for me, church was a very difficult period in my life as a child.  It didn’t make sense.  It was [...]

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Today at The Gathering I finished our present series, “The Power To Prevail,” with the last installment, “Turning Failure Into Fertilizer.”
We talked about the three main reasons we fail.
1.    Sometimes we fail because of circumstances. The stock market goes south, a market shifts, we get our realtors license the day before the bottom falls out.
2.    [...]

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Yesterday I talked about some of my first ideas in a new series I’m planning for the summer at The Gathering called, “Generous Wins.” I talked about living in the flow and letting the flow become your overflow, and out of the overflow you contribute the energy of being overjoyed.  And that over-joy and overflow [...]

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