My most recent book is out. It’s titled Before You Start A Ministry: Things to Know So You Can Flourish. I’ve been in ministry since 2005 and served as senior professor of ministry in the department of orphans and vulnerable children at Servants...
A student taking one of the courses I teach at Servants University wrote me the following note. My response to her reminded me of a crucial role that knowing our DESIGN plays. Several years ago, I created a tool called DESIGN to help people find their God-given...
Children’s toys and Vision. This is essential because every visible thing that has been created started out as a creation in someone’s mind. The first creation is always invisible. It’s the second creation that incarnates the invisible creation in...
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is....
Here is a true story. Identifying information has been changed to protect the privacy of those involved. For the last six years, Grace Baptist, a small church in Austin, Texas, has had a significant portion of its campus empty. The church used to run an orphanage...
