Personal Leadership Model?
For years I lived my life like a pick up game of football making up plays at the line of scrimmage. This worked great in the back yard when I was a boy. As man it was a disaster. Twenty years ago I began to made a transforming change by creating a life plan. My...
Begin
"If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done." Ecclesiastes 11: 4, the Living Bible. I think about the analogy of driving somewhere in my car and how absurd it would be to wait until all the traffic signals on my route were green before I...
Begin Today
"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." Matthew 7:13-14. Following Jesus' lifestyle is the...
Begin Where You Are
Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Matthew 11:28-30. What a great place to start--right where you are with these...
Become What You Believe
Jesus said to them, “Do you believe I can do this?” They said, “Why, yes, Master!” He touched their eyes and said, “Become what you believe.” It happened. Matthew 9:28-29 MSG Perhaps you are ending the year like the two blind men in this story; desperate for a...
How People Change
About five years ago, Parker Houston and I began investing in men as spiritual and life leaders. We practiced encouraging leadership on each other and we've never been the same. Parker is a great husband and dad, a Clinical Psychologist, Executive Coach, and a...
Adventures: Summer 2018
DEEP ADVENTURES: Each event has three components; the adventure itself, camaraderie on the water, the trail, or around the fire, and going deeper with God. You will return inspired, refreshed, and passionate about your life. God usually doesn’t visit us in...
How to Get Involved
For the past 20 years as a Pastor, it has been my privilege to teach, counsel, build teams, and grow a church, but mentoring men and encouraging pastors to know and enjoy God at a deeper level has towered above everything else. Along the way men become better men,...
Stepping Out “InFaith”
Two days before I moved from the Sacramento area to South Santa Cruz County, I got a call from the owner of Pathways Recovery, a men's detox and residential recovery center in Roseville, near Sacramento. I was asked to design a Spiritual Development and Guidance...
Create Movement
Sick and tired of feeling stuck, stalled, or drifting? Dig down. Do something different. Be the man. As John Eldridge says, you are William Wallace in your life, your family, your place in the world. You can't dodge this bullet. Either you step now into who you are...
Big Ask
Are you stalled with what's next? Discouraged with what's happening? Waiting for someone to invite you into the game? Frozen with regrets, bad habits, and a false ceiling? Stuck in a stalled marriage, a career that has a low ceiling, hopes that have lost their...
Work It Out
SCRIPTURE // So, in light of what’s true, work it out, the implications of this truth, wrestle with it as a desperate man looking for a way out - wrestle it out with God not alone. Philippians 2:12 OBSERVATION // Paul, the old wise guy, who must have fought hard...