Have you ever thought about why some people seem to have the all the opportunities to lead and there you sit, “waiting.” Waiting for your turn, your role, the right job, or opportunity and yet it just never seems to come? What if I told you that if you are feeling this right now, your …
Category: Leadership & Ministry
Tools, truths, and tough love for leaders navigating temptation, authority, and the sacred responsibility of influence.
Wilderness or Desert?
Quick question: would you rather be in the wilderness or the desert? What if you didn't have a choice and life itself; the stresses, work, people, health, hurdles and more, leads you straight to one of them? What if you have been "wandering" for weeks now and you realize that something is really wrong, but …
Love one another…
My alarm sounded and I woke this morning from a pretty intense dream and shared with my wife that "church people are mean." Wow, really I thought? The first thing in my head this morning was that? Well, I was dreaming about being in a very large church where two churches were hoping to come …
Have you given enough – of yourself?
As I have been falling in and out of burnout these past months I have done a lot of thinking. Most likely too much thinking, but nonetheless I have given thought to many things. Life, love, career, faith, death and more. It all seems to come back to the same place, some sort of beginning …
The Candle Barely Burns
Ever hear the following phrase? "you are the burning the candle at both ends." I have heard it a lot over the years and I just about always laughed it off, until now. But before I get into that let's look at the meaning of this "candle" phrase; to work or do other things from early in …
Put Your CAPE Back On!
Up, Up and away, my spidey senses are tingling, Hulk SMASH, I have the power and Flame On! What do all of these have in common? If you said these are all things said by superheroes you would be correct; Superman, Spiderman, Hulk, He Man and Torch. These are just a few of over 10,000 …
Stepping on Toes
I struggled a bit with this blog. I mean after all its going to touch on God, politics and personal views / beliefs. Pretty much bomb building 101 isn't it? We are 26 days away from an election that just seems full of doom and gloom. Let's start with it is 2020, we all know …
WARNING. Hurting and frustrated pastor ahead!
I was spending time with a good friend recently and he asked me why I was so tired looking. I laughed and simply said “ministry.” His reply was “can’t be that hard” I had to let that sink in for a bit and even repeated those 4 words – can’t be that hard. Then he …
Continue reading WARNING. Hurting and frustrated pastor ahead!
Fire Alarms, Fire Trucks and Jesus
It’s 3:45 in the morning and I am deep asleep and then the phone vibrates. I look at it and see that is our alarm monitoring company for our church. “Hello? Is this Dennis? Yes. We have a fire alarm going off at your church and fire and police are in route.” Now this isn’t …
Frustrations
The governor of Illinois just put the entire state under "shelter in place" due to COVID-19. Very interesting times we now live in. This a pandemic virus, meaning this virus is world-wide and is in very large numbers affecting people, especially the older populations - to the point of death. Italy and Spain are on …
Fire Side Therapy 