When “Eeyore Syndrome” Creeps into Your Staff

When I was in ministry full-time there were times when I looked around the room at the staff and saw a lot of eeyore’s looking back at me. You remember Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh?  Always the glass is half empty, the 100-Aker Woods token pessimist (where Pooh and his gang live), typically just on…

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How Partiality Affects Ministry

There’s been a post going around social media lately with a picture of an airplane that has specific areas on it with red dots. The picture is tied to an article about something called survivor partiality. The whole idea behind the image and article is referencing something that came about in World War II about…

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How to figure out who your ministry audience really is?

Terry freezes, locking his eyes on a hawk yards away that sits on a tree branch. He grips the camera hanging from his neck and brings it up to his eye, aiming for the perfect shot. He needs another lens, but he sees the hawk jerk his head towards the opposite direction. The bird’s about…

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Give a roadmap to the people you lead

I am an idea person. I see the world through the lens of possibilities. It can be called different things: dreamer, visionary, even imagineer.  The way I view people, organizations, and opportunities all revolves around the potential to do something better. Problems are simply challenges to that can be overcome. Even as a young kid,…

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Audience Persona Exercise

Terry freezes, locking his eyes on a hawk yards away that sits on a tree branch. He grips the camera hanging from his neck and brings it up to his eye, aiming for the perfect shot. He needs another lens, but he sees the hawk jerk his head towards the opposite direction. The bird’s about…

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Marketing Masks & Ninja Assassins

Masks Blog

I get a kick out of the things people dress up like for Halloween. How one personality transforms into another for a day of fun. Take my niece for example, a mild mannered, sweet little first grader who transforms into a dangerous masked ninja assassin. I can’t barely even recognize her in her Halloween costume.…

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Leadership Hurt

Leadership Hurt

Over the years in ministry, I’ve heard people tell me time and time again that hurt people hurt people. In my younger days, I think I passed it off as just something that you say to get over moments of frustration. But as I reflect on it now, I realize that it’s very true. Ministries…

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Stop Marketing and Start Inspiring People

When you hear the word “Inspire”, what comes to mind? Do you have the picturesque image of an artist painting the sunset meeting a dark and vast mountain range? Or perhaps you visualize someone sitting at a spot-lit piano on a blacken stage on the verge of a masterpiece. Maybe it takes you back to…

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