Category Archives: Missional Community

Lousy Leaders Coddle

Leadership Freak Coddling leaders are safe; compassionate leaders dangerous. Coddling, like all leadership behaviors, reflects attitudes about yourself and others. Coddling isn’t compassionate it’s needy, misguided, self-important, and self-propagating. The more you coddle the more you need to coddle. Coddlers can’t stand to see others stressed or struggling, but growth and development require both. CoddlingContinue reading “Lousy Leaders Coddle”

Why do I persist?

I was asked yesterday by a friend, “When is it time to give up?” Now most of you know that I am an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and I have been on leave from call for the past 16 months. I have been diligently seeking where God is callingContinue reading “Why do I persist?”

“Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turn ed to him.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

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While I’m Waiting

I have been waiting on something to happen for quite a while now. And it seems like I have done everything right and just still nothing happens. We get close to being able to move on, but something happens and we start over again. In times like these it would be real easy to giveContinue reading “While I’m Waiting”