Managing Balanced Expectations in Life and Ministry

by | Sep 17, 2024

Balanced Expectations – Me Against The World The young geniuses above have some expectations. They plan to storm the scientific community and render a vast service to humanity. Maybe they will discover the mystery of perpetual motion. We wish them well. In 1947...
Tense Negotiations

Tense Negotiations

by | Jul 10, 2022

 Dateline:  August 8, 1993  Beirut     Mr. Giandomenico Picco, the assistant United Nations Secretary-General, was in delicate negotiations for the release of American hostages. Terry Anderson, United Press International’s station chief had been held for seven years. ...
Mayflower Mayhem (3 of 3)

Mayflower Mayhem (3 of 3)

by | Apr 8, 2021

We conclude looking at the adversity the 1620 voyage of the Pilgrims to the New World to gain perspective on what our own enterprizes may face: The congregation had shrunk to one-sixth what it had been when plans for the New World were formulating.  It was down...
Leadership Creates Unexpected Risk

Leadership Creates Unexpected Risk

by | Oct 31, 2020

Thomas Jefferson was elected on a strict Constitutionalist platform.  He was committed to do only what the Constitution allowed him to do. When Napoleon offered the Jefferson administration the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the President was in a bind. The...