Came across a pretty good video on “Leading Yourself Well” by the discipleship pastor at National Community Church. It’s 12 minutes long, but if you have 12—it’s worth it. It’s very KINDLE-flavored. Leading Yourself Well from National Community Church on Vimeo.

I learned a lot from Marsha Phillips, yesterday. Marsha is a member of my congregation, has been for a long time. She has had a really rough year caring for her elderly mother—lots of tough decisions to make. She is a major prayer warrior. She’s really good at scrapbooking. Yesterday, Marsha ran into a young [...]

I have it from a reliable source that Dean Cheri Selander has chosen the reading list for Classic KINDLE 2011. Here it is: “The Servant”, by James Hunter “Coaching 101”, by Bob Logan, Sherilyn Carlton, and Tara Miller “Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic”, by Anne Jackson At Classic KINDLE, participants will have a [...]

  KINDLE Strand: Stewardship of Self Practice 8: Grow in Wisdom-For intellectual health intentionally and regularly engage in learning opportunities. Wow, do I love to read. Always have. I suspect I always will. The interesting thing is that I remember very few details of anything I read. I have strong impressions—”I loved that book.” “I [...]

KINDLE Strand: Stewardship of Self Practice 10: Stay Connected- For social health, see the mutual conversation and consolation of other Christians. I love basketball—and it’s hard not to love John Wooden when you love basketball. He died last week at the age of 99. Great coach, but as I heard one person say, “great man”. [...]

KINDLE Strand: Stewardship of Faith Practice 20: Serve Others –Present your life as a living sacrifice, responding in graciousness and hospitality This is a great quote from a new book called “The Humanitarian Jesus: Social Justice and the Cross” by Christian Buckley and Ryan Dobson. I didn’t read the book, although I did read an [...]

Seth Godin recently had a short blog post that said these (frightening) things: Every 18 months for the last decade, the world has doubled the data it pushes to you. Twice as much email, twice as many friend requests, twice as many sites to check, twice as many devices. He also asks a couple questions: [...]