The Longing Behind Pastoral Envy
Sin often takes something good and turns it into an idol, or it takes our desire for what is good and twists it. Yet underneath the sin is a legitimate longing. We try
Pastoring
Pastoral Envy
I’m preaching on envy this Sunday. Jonathan Edwards defined envy as “a spirit of dissatisfaction with, and opposition to, the prosperity and happiness of others as compared with our own.” Envy has
Tim Bailey on Vision
My friend Tim Bailey – who knows how to find a mean convenience store in Honduras (really Jared’s fault) – blogs about discovering vision versus creating it.
This line alone makes the whole post
Strategic Planning: Of Limited Value
Last week I attended a session that described an assessment process for churches. Consultants go in and diagnose a church, and then provide some affirmations and prescriptions for further action.
I never know
Swinging the pendulum away from vision
“Leadership as ‘vision’ has become another way of talking about exercising dominance and pushing other people around with your ideas…Vision has become a way of declaring dominance, of achieving alpha status and