How much of professional Christian life is geared so that we spend more time complaining about sinners than we spend in genuine compassionate friendship and relationship?
Dear West – 2 August 2018
It’s all fun and games until you wake up face to face with a bear.
10 Team Leadership Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
What follows then are ten principles of team leadership that I have learned over the last decade, and as the title suggests, these were learned through the hard lessons of disappointing people and then just trying again. In other words, I failed in these areas, and so learned more through failure than through success, which is how a lot of learning seems to happen. I hope they are helpful.
“It Wears Me Out” – The Painful Pursuit of People Pleasing
Turning 39, getting a traffic ticket, listening to Radiohead, reading Esther, and how it all reminds me that I forget the gospel.
2017 Reading List: 25 Books I Enjoyed This Year, Part 5
The 5th and final part in my 2017 Reading List series. It includes my two books of the year and one that came very close.
2017 Reading List: 25 Books I Enjoyed This Year, Part 4
A truly eclectic group as we get towards the end of my 2017 reading summary.
2017 Reading List: 25 Books I Enjoyed This Year, Part 3
Hillbilly's, old pastors, the mystery of God's will and same sex attraction all on one list.
2017 Reading List: 25 Books I Enjoyed This Year, Part 2
Part 2 of the list features everything from Japanese fiction to American pragmatism, making a stop past English Catholicism on the way. There is also a pastor with gay parents and a conservative view of marriage.
2017 Reading List: 25 Books I Enjoyed This Year, Part 1
By God's grace it has been a fruitful year of reading, and I have learned a great deal again, especially in terms of how I ought to read more going forward. So, here are the first 5 of 25 books that I enjoyed this year, with very short reviews to whet your appetite. My simple hope is to encourage you to read more and to enjoy your reading more. They appear in the order that I read them.
