There is a predictable playbook church malcontents typically follow when trying to do what they do.  It’s not worth losing sleep over.

Leave it to a Geico commercial to highlight an important principle that makes for a rewarding life.  Perplexed?  Read on!

It's incredibly counterintuitive, but quite often the supremely talented and gifted person can be a liability, rather than an asset, to the organization.

Pastors and leaders can’t always be available.  But we can typically mitigate our lack of availability by demonstrating that we’re accessible.

You wouldn’t think a murder trial would serve as a focal point for a display of the challenge, and beauty, of forgiveness.  If so, you’d have to think again.

From a foreign policy standpoint there are many compelling reasons to stand by the nation of Israel.  But I’m convinced the sense of spiritual obligation is an Old Testament construct.

While the Old Testament is the soil from which our faith emerged, we retain some ideas and understandings that can set us back if we’re not careful.  Here’s one of them.

This obscure and little-known word in many ways captures the essence of what it means to be a follower of Jesus and live a holy life.

Just as a forgery is not the same as the original painting, so a religiously pious person is not the same as a genuine follower of Jesus.  How can you tell?

The pending retirement of the manager of my favorite MLB team, and the timing and circumstances of his decision, highlights an oft-overlooked principle of effective leadership.

Perhaps the easy-departure mentality of many churchgoers isn’t a byproduct of their character but, rather, things the church has done over the years.

You’d never think something as innocuous as a church worship folder could send subtle clues regarding what’s most important.  But it can … and does!

Next time you go to the theater, you will undoubtedly experience something that is a powerful analogy of the role of the church in our society.  And it has nothing to do with the movie you chose to see.

I sometimes wonder if the gospel we embrace is a limited and abridged version that falls far short of the holistic and comprehensive message Jesus proclaimed.

You wouldn’t expect SportsCenter to pass along a story that speaks to a principal way that followers of Jesus can validate and substantiate their faith.  But it did!

You don’t hear about this a great deal, but this is perhaps the biggest source of relational dysfunction and leadership breakdown out there.

If we want to be an effective leader, we simply can’t know and control everything that’s going on in the organization.  Yet many of us often try.

Why is it that some people are helped immensely by someone’s preaching ministry and others complain about “not being fed”?