Author: Steve

Continuing our discussion of peak performance….maybe it is time to replace peak performance with WISDOM when I’m talking about spiritual things…I thought a few more examples might enrich the model’s applicability and relevance. It’s actually not hard to come up with examples because all you have to do is discover a debate and you can…

I now have a name for my condition….what a relief!! Treating my condition is exactly what I’m here….doing….I was introduced to Lencioni, and the Working Genius by a brother-in-law, thanks Jeremy, and a cousin, thanks Tony, and then it really resonated as I began building out our leadership team at Kingdom Autocare. Specifically, I’m an…

This could be a long post….because words matter…..and that means there are a million examples and applications. Suffice just a few words on the matter:) This morning we had family devotions around Psalm 82. After reading the Psalm, Betsy says, ‘what does that passage even mean?!’, and so off we go in working at it…

My Steiner relation might disown me for making such an obvious literary blunder in the title of this post. In another post, I encourage ‘participant mindset’. I suggest that the disease of American spectatorism is against God’s will. To back up this claim just a little, consider what God said in Genesis 1:28. Then man’s…

Going back to the ‘journey’ theme, because I admit I’ve been in some heavier subjects lately, is this light-hearted post about our family trip from last summer. This summer, let’s just say we are feeling our age, have an infant, and are just focusing on some farm improvements. But last summer, we really did go…

“You aren’t going to find a perfect church, and even if you did, as soon as you joined it, it wouldn’t be perfect anymore.” Have you ever been told this by someone? If you haven’t, it may be an indication that you are the type of person that says this to others. If you have,…

I was visiting with a friend recently and asked him how his dad was doing. “Not good! He expected to lose his job last week but it didn’t happen, but he expects to lose it soon.” Those are scary words for a man of God, who takes God’s charge seriously in providing financially for his…

Continuing on with my model described here, let’s talk about contemplation and action. Left extreme: Monk. He sits on a pole, contemplating, meditating, ruminating, denying his flesh of very comfort, and every other movement, so that his mind/spirit can ‘be free’. Learn of this idea here. Apparently, some people have spent, literally, years doing this.…

What images, feelings, and thoughts arise in our hearts from reading this phrase? I’m going to take you on a journey of just five-days time. It started on the 4th of July. I began with my customary Friday routine, leading a worship service at a local nursing home. I often speak ahead of the Bible…

I have a friend named Anthony. He resides at one of the nursing homes I hold services in (we sing, pray, read from the Bible, speak on the passage, then sing again)–I’ve known him for a number of years and he’s been out to our church (he said it wasn’t his style). He lost both…