Motivational Poster #1 – Teamwork

Recent Reads

• Gospel Giving vs. Guilt Giving
  This post from Desiring God called The Gospel, Not Guilt Motivates Radical Christian Giving points to a good word from Tim Keller’s book Ministries of Mercy, on the problem with using guilt as a motivation for giving. Often books and speakers tell Christians that they should help the needy because they have so much.... But this approach is very limited in it […]
• The taming and domestication of religious faith is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.
  A recent blizzard of liberal columns has framed the debate over American Islam as if it were no more than the most recent stage in the glorious history of our religious tolerance. This phrasing of the question has the (presumably intentional) effect of marginalizing doubts and of lumping any doubters with the anti-Catholic Know-Nothings, the anti-Semites, an […]
• The Blessing of a Loving But Unimpressed Spouse
  Roger Parrot (President of Belhaven University): There are few who can accurately self-evaluate. In repeated studies, most people rate themselves much higher than their true skills. And thus, leaders need at least one person who will shoot absolutely straight with them and be both their best friend and best critic. Remarkably, among the statesmen I’ve enjoye […]
• Check-in, Chicken
  One way to start every morning with your team is to have them check in. Go around in a circle and let people update and contribute. It's not a silly exercise, in that it helps people speak up and it communicates forward motion. Another way, probably a better one, is to have each member of the team announce what they're afraid of. Two kinds of afrai […]
• strangers
  I was on my way back from the mall this morning when I spotted a young man with straggly hair standing on the median with a cardboard sign. It read simply, “Travelling, hungry, broke.” I drove a few more blocks but felt like the Lord was whispering to me, “This is your day to provide.” I thought about it for another block, the traffic was fairly heavy and I […]