“Integrity is the gap between the way you ought to live and the way you actually live. Hypocrisy is acting like that gap doesn’t exist.” I read this quote recently in the book Leaders That Last, and it made me do a double take. In the “church world” we’ve spent a lot of time and [...]
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One of the reasons it’s so hard to do the right thing is that we don’t want to. We know what’s right. Most of us know exactly what we should do. And I honestly think most of us could make ourselves do it. The problem is we just don’t want to. Somewhere deep down we’re [...]
“God is not the God of the immediate, he’s the God of the incredible.” We talked about this a few months ago, but in light of what several of you are going through it bears repeating. In our microwave society, we’re conditioned to expect everything right now. In fact, we’ve come to believe that we [...]
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Oh, and by the way, that works for pastors too. And church staff. And teachers. And…
Even though I swore I wouldn’t use Noah as an illustration too often (don’t want every mistake broadcast like most PK’s), something happened that I couldn’t pass up… Miranda’s out of town, so yesterday I picked him up from the sitter and took him to the park for some Daddy / Buddy time. As is [...]
