I remember saying to a friend about this time last year that I wasn’t sure I would ever preach again. Not so much because I was sick of preaching, but because I couldn’t imagine why any church or group would ever want to hear from a failed church planter like me. I believed I had […]
Archives for November 2011
My Love/Hate List
Another lesson I’ve learned in the past year is that doing what I love makes me happy. Forcing myself to do what I hate sends me into a depressing funk. So I’m trying to spend more of my time doing what I love and less of it doing what I hate. This is why I […]
November 15, 2011 by 7 Comments
Insight is O-V-E-R-R-A-T-E-D
A second lesson I’ve learned this year is that insight is overrated (I got this line from a friend). Not unimportant, just overrated. I have the kind of personality that craves insight from past events. I want to understand why things happened the way they did, why I responded the way I did, and what […]
November 10, 2011 by 3 Comments
Failure Is All It’s Cracked Up To Be
Last November was the worst month of my life. I was trying to recover from a devastating professional failure, understand how I ended up trying something I turned out to be so ill-suited to do, and figure out what to do next. Can you say Happy Holidays? (As far as tough times go, mine have […]
November 7, 2011 by 7 Comments
The Lost Secret of Running
November 3, 2011 by 8 Comments
Attack the Resistance!
One night back in the summer, while playing basketball with the boys under our street light, I had an idea for a short story that I thought they would enjoy. Over the next several days I thought about the plot and how to best start and end the story. I started writing it at nights, […]
November 2, 2011 by 2 Comments
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons