Be boring.
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04.08.2025 14:31
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Be boring.
#greatthingstaketime
Unboxing the first copies of my forthcoming book 'The Art of Asking Better Questions.'
What an emotional moment.
10 years of thinking and researching.
18 months of writing (and re-writing... and re-writing).
1 huge passion.
Releases Oct 7 with @ivpress.bsky.social (but you can pre-order now).
What has astonished you lately? Who can you tell about it?
Of course you had to post this picture on.... Blue Sky. 😉
A short poem that made me laugh.
The power and magic of collaboration.
In what ways can we learn to lead like this in our contexts?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwC0...
My friend Jared Mackey creates a beautiful free weekly newsletter called Sacred Place focused on the importance of being present in your community. I love reading it each week (and highly recommend you subscribe). I'm grateful to be asked to write a brief reflection.
www.sacredplace.co/latest-issue
Well, that was fun.
My friend Will Parker Anderson is an editor at Penguin/Random House and hosts The Writer's Circle podcast where he interviews various writers about the craft of writing. But we turned the tables here and I interviewed him.
Check it out: 👉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
If you were wondering how you’re doing as a servant, notice how you respond when you’re treated like one.
So… what do you actually believe about Jesus?
I send out 5 things each Tuesday—short reflections and questions to help leaders pause and lead with more grace.
If that sounds helpful, the link’s in the bio.
www.kairospartnerships.org/5t5m
One of the many paradoxes of leadership: the more you embrace your limits, the more influence you gain.
I've worked with countless leaders over the past several years and there's a pattern I've noticed: effective leaders are reflective leaders.
It's been said that knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
And wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad. 😉
Time and time again throughout Scripture, a leader's character was formed, forged, and proven through two things: obscurity and adversity.
Jesus was the only person ever born whose central purpose in life was to die.
“When trying to make the right decision, we often think that what we need is more information; but what we may actually need is just a little more courage.”
I asked myself and others this question multiple times today. What a thoughtful question by @jr-briggs.bsky.social in #5T5M bit.ly/4dMCSQ8
Where have you seen gentleness show its strenght?
I've been thinking about this quote by Antonin Sertillanges all afternoon: "The people who seem to us the bravest are just the most obedient."
There is great power in gentleness.
It looks like the rise of secularism in Europe has also hit a plateau recently.
I compared religious attendance rates in 22 countries between 2018 and 2023.
In many, the share who never attend hasn't moved that much.
And attendance has increased a bit in a handful.
What if the most impactful thing you did this week as a leader took less than 5 minutes? And if you knew what it was, would you do it?
I'm passionate about this - and it was the topic of a brief (13 min) episode on the Resilient Leaders podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
If you want to see a photo of my Grandpa skydiving at age 90, scroll to the end.
Theologically speaking, Christian nationalism is an oxymoron.
Whenever I experience relational conflict, I try to step back and ask myself: "Is this sin, is this immaturity, or is this a difference of opinion?"
The answer impacts the response.
Observation: the best ideas often come after the long pause after the third time someone asks, "What else?"
How you define success will always define you.
The same thing is true with failure.
“You don’t direct the soul; you feed it. Then the soul directs you.”
-Dallas Willard
"If information was all we needed, we’d all be billionaires with six-pack abs."
-Derek Sivers
