Archive for the ‘Teachables’ Category

Understanding the Trinity

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Here’s the beautiful thing: you don’t need to fully understand the Trinity to worship the Trinity, pray to the Trinity, and enter into the life of the Trinity.

They tell me that deep within the core of the sun, the temperature is 27 million degrees. The pressure is 340 billion times what it is here on Earth. And in the sun’s core, that insanely hot temperature and unthinkable pressure combine to create nuclear reactions. In each reaction, 4 protons fuse together to create 1 alpha particle, which is .7 percent less massive than the 4 protons. The difference in mass is expelled as energy, and after one million years, through a process called convection, this energy from the core of the sun finally reaches the surface, where it’s expelled as heat and light.

Now that was all kind of interesting, but you know what? I didn’t need to know all that in order to get a tan.

Leading Effective Meetings

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

H. B. London, VP Pastoral Ministries for Focus on the Family offers these sage words of wisdom for pastors and leaders about meetings… (more…)

Dead Horses

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians says when you discover you’re riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in modern business and ministry, because of the heavy investment factors, other strategies are often tried with dead horses, including: buying a stronger whip; changing riders; threatening the horse with termination; appointing a committee to study the horse; arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses; reclassifying the dead horse as  “living-impaired”; hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse; harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed; donating the dead horse to a recognized charity and deducting its full original cost; doing a time management study to see if lighter riders would improve productivity; declaring a dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better; and  promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
The KELLYGRAM 12/02

Talent-Plus People

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

John Maxwell has identified 13 seemingly straightforward traits that go beyond innate talent yet are often overlooked. His point is that talent alone will not sustain you in relationships, whether business or personal. He refers to those who subscribe to these traits as “TALENT-PLUS PEOPLE.” Maxwell lists these traits as choices you must consider in your quest to be a more effective leader, spouse, parent and/or friend: (more…)