For many leaders, success requires the ability to create something out of nothing, which in many ways, is what it means to improvise.
There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sing up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness.
Stories are the most powerful delivery tool for information – more powerful and enduring than any other art form.
It is one thing to understand the gospel but it is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.
Maybe Sunday isn’t the main event of our spiritual growth – what if our actual life Monday-Saturday is the main event?
Your reason for being is certainly developed in your personal life, but it’s possible to create it with your work life, and in doing so, serve others.
When thinking of growing physically, it’s easy to gravitate toward the big ideas of eating healthy, getting plenty of exercise, and having a healthy sleep pattern over a period of time. Micro-resilience, on the other hand, takes almost no time, and works almost immediately.
Deep in our hearts, we all want to find and fulfill a purpose bigger than ourselves. Only such a larger purpose can inspire us to heights we know we could never reach on our own.
You began an amazing learning journey the day you were born, and it continues to this day. While you may associate “learning” with your younger self, learning continues all throughout your life – or at least, it should.
Food connects. It connects us with family. It turns strangers into friends. And it connects us with people around the world. We express who we want to be through food. Guess what? Jesus did too.