Leadership

Here’s the Monday Sarah and I had… 4:21 am: Woke up in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. 4:50 am: 1st cup of coffee 5:01 am: Drove to Kansas City, KS Airport 5:57 am: Go through Security 7:00 am: Flew to Orlando, FL 7:50 am: Lady in row next to us passes out & they have to radio…

So we own a cat.  No, we have a cat.  I mean, my boys have a cat. No, my 8 year old has a cat.  My 8 year old has a cat that we all take care of.  Kind of… I mean, my mother-in-law takes care of the cat mostly. I’m not super fond of…

The launch of the book has been extremely successful over the past 10 days!  Thanks to so many of you who are already ordering it, reading it and buying copies for your entire leadership teams to go through together! Here are a couple of quotes from Early Readers… “This book is a Permissional Roadmap for…

I opened the pages of Entrepreneur Magazine today and Amy Cosper, the Editor in chief, had some amazing things to say.  Here are a few quotes to encourage all of us today! “The situation (of the economy) is making normally rational people act like loonies.  It’s fear. And its a real business issue these days. …

The Day has finally arrived!!!  My New Book, The Up the Middle Church, has launched! The book is written for pastors, church leaders and church planters who are doing ministry One Yard at a Time! The Long-Bomb’s get all the press, but the majority of the game is played Up the Middle! I am confident…

So I have a deposit that I need to make in my friend’s account who doesn’t live in the USA.  And I have had his money ready to go for like 2 or 3 weeks now, but he doesn’t bank where I bank, and I don’t really know where his bank is. So everytime I…

To view this blog as a video blog click here http://www.tokbox.com/vm/0pnwfurvpke0 Proverbs 21:8  (The Message)  “Mixed motives twist life into tangles; pure motives take you straight down the road.”8.  The Motives of a Leader. I love that Proverbs comes back to the motives issue again just a few verses after talking about it in verse…

Hey everyone, If you heard the message from Sunday, January 4th, you know that we as a church are taking the 21 Day Challenge in terms of ready our Bibles & daily spending time with God in His Word!  In preparation for Vision Sunday, January 25th, which is a Must-Attend for the entire NLC Family! …

To view this blog as a video blog, click here http://www.tokbox.com/vm/698wpfxi3ij4 Proverbs 21:6 (The Message) “Make it to the top by lying and cheating; get paid with smoke and a promotion – to death.”6.  The Integrity of a Leader. A while back I came across some information about a leader I had once admired greatly. …

To view this blog as a video blog, click here http://www.tokbox.com/vm/rnbmg3dukcbt Proverbs 21:5  (The Message)  “Careful planning puts you ahead in the long run; hurry and scurry puts you further behind.”5.  The Plan of a Leader. I can’t remember a time when I waited until the last minute on anything and ended up with the…