We learn to stop chasing experiences when we realize all of life is an experience. One of the most difficult challenges I have faced in my spiritual journey has been transitioning out of chasing addictive, adrenaline-producing or accomplishment-seeking experiences to finding joy in the everyday, seemingly mundane realities of life. Addictive, adrenaline-based or work-based-success experiences […]
An Alumni Story: Horror Movie EPC
You’ll soon begin to notice more and more stories of God’s transforming work in the lives of our Journey alumni in this blog space. We have trained over 700 leaders worldwide and we want to create space to hear their stories! As Paul Jensen artfully conveys when he teaches on organizational transformation at the Journey, […]
Leading by Adding Value
Next?month, I?ll reach the?seven years of employment mark with The Leadership Institute.? If there?s a tenet of our ministry that I?ve appreciated the most over the years, it?s the idea that all of us, whether we like it or not, are leaders. ?That’s because all of us, whether we like it or not, have some […]
Sinless Someday?
Reading N. T. Wright?s?Evil and the Justice of God, I was encouraged by these words: ?This is where the?personal?meaning of the cross becomes very clear. There will be a time when I?even I, sinner that I am!?will be totally sinless, when God has completed the work of grace within me. But I already enjoy, in […]
Grace in Weakness
?And so His people are still taught to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. When He strengthens them, it is not by taking away the sense of feebleness, and giving in its place the feeling of strength. By no means. But in a very wonderful way leaving and even […]
God’s Kingdom Grows Like an Oasis
I love this insight from Elton Trueblood about how an organic church grows: ?Those who observe the desert are well aware of the way in which the relatively inconspicuous oasis begins to conquer the wasteland, A single blade of grass, alone in the desert, would be sure to wither and die, while seed sown indiscriminately […]
Avoiding Responsibility by Pointing Fingers
From?N. T. Wright?s book, After You Believe: ??we who have lived for many generations with the phenomenon of ?denominations? may well sigh and throw up our hands. Our denominations, with all their ambiguities and puzzles, are often rooted in the very kind of ethnic distinctions or personality-based divisions which Paul went out of his way […]
