Begin with the End in Mind
July 13, 2010
“Begin with the end in mind” - That’s another one of Stephen Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. I didn’t want to steal Covey’s ‘habit’ for my title, but it’s a pretty good fit, so we’ll let it stand. Covey asks you, gentle reader, to close your eyes and imagine that you have just walked [...]Obedience vs. Proactivity
June 25, 2010
Management guru Stephen Covey says that being ‘proactive’ is the first of seven habits of highly effective people. According to Covey’s ridiculously popular book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (of course), being proactive doesn’t just mean taking initiative, it means choosing your response to what happens to you. Covey writes that most people [...]The Definition of Success
June 11, 2010
For the last two weeks I’ve been promising you twelve keys to a truly successful life; but all I’ve shared with you are two commandments from the Bible. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” I also [...]How Big is Your Neighborhood?
May 31, 2010
Last week I gave you the number one rule for a truly successful life: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” Here’s rule number two: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” It’s an old one. I bet you’ve heard it already … but do you [...]The One Thing
May 21, 2010
Remember the movie “City Slickers”? Three guys facing middle age and accompanying crises, wanting to reassess their lives, embark on a two week cattle drive – a sort of hyper-dude-ranch, real cowboy experience for ‘city slickers’. During the drive, one city slicker, ‘Mitch’ rides along with tough as nails cowboy ‘Curly’, and Curly shares [...]Why Am I Doing This?
May 13, 2010
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart …” (Jeremiah 1:5) I missed sending out a ‘Purpose Weekly’ letter last week. Elaine and I went away for four days so I could write … ironic, isn’t it? There’s a book I’ve been putting off for a [...]One Mustard Seed
April 26, 2010
“What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches” (Luke 13:18) Elaine and I are going on a little camping trip. [...]Jesus and the Third Grader
April 13, 2010
Last week I told you about my friend Roger and that Roger’s son, Eric, died as child, unexpectedly. That was twenty-five years ago; Roger hasn’t ‘gotten over it’ but he has learned to live with it. The promise that has allowed him to come to terms with the tragedy is that he knows he will, [...]When a Child Dies
April 7, 2010
I like to think I’m pretty good with words, but a few times in my life I’ve been speechless. At those moments anything I could have thought to say would have been less than required. Words of advice or comfort or empathy would have been wooden and miserably weak. There wasn’t a thing I could [...]Wes Smith in Haiti … the rest of the story
March 28, 2010
I hadn’t heard from Wes Smith in a while. Remember Wes? I wrote about him and his Haiti rescue team deploying do the earthquake ravaged island right after the tragic event. You can review the posts here: “Haiti Relief, January 17″ and “Haiti Update, January 18″ Haiti team member John Fussle commented on the follow up [...]-
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