Craig Groeschel started the third session at Catalyst One Day hosted by Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg with a quote attributed to Bill Hybels: “The way I was doing the work of God was destroying the work of God in me.” Leaders need to have personal spiritual momentum. Above all else, when a church [...]

Here are my notes from the second session (led by Craig Groeschel) at Catalyst One Day at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg. A lie believed as truth will affect you as truth. (Craig told the story of one of his colleagues held captive because of his wrong mindset – trapped in the closet, nothing [...]

Here are my notes from Andy Stanley’s first session of Catalyst One Day at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg. Momentum is forward motion fueled by a series of wins. If you have momentum and you don’t know why, you’re one stupid decision away from loosing it. If you don’t know why you had it [...]

Today at lunch I facilitated my first Leadership Huddle with six other people from throughout the US and in Hungary. We’re fortunate to live in a time when people from all over the world can communicate via technology, but finding the right solution for my needs was not as easy as I initially thought. Needs [...]

I’m excited to begin facilitating my first Leadership Huddle next week! For 12-13 weeks I’ll “meet” together via technology, for an hour each week with a group of Christ followers, most of whom I’ve met through Twitter, Facebook or blogging. We’ll talk about what it means to be disciples and how we can model the [...]

For the last six weeks, I’ve been one of six participants in a Leadership Huddle led by John Chandler of the The Spence Network. We’ve been processing life through the lens of “life shapes,” and based on the life of Jesus. The whole idea comes from the guys at 3D Ministries, out of Pawley’s Island, [...]

Servant Spirit is foundational. Last week I presented “Selected Squared” to a group of managers in an organization of nearly 1,000 employees. Click here to view the original post that contains the Select Squared slidedeck. At every level in outstanding organizations, leaders and employees embrace a spirit of service to others that is reflected in [...]

I saw three wise men yesterday at Starbucks and it’s not even Christmas time! They were meeting to solve local and world problems and basically just “chew the fat” (southern colloquialism for sitting around talking about everything and nothing in particular). And they did this every day, sometimes with a few more wise men, sometimes [...]

Tonight I was doing a search on Twitter to see who was talking about Lynchburg. You can follow that real time search here. That’s when I found this tweet: I’ve known Ken Garren, President of Lynchburg College, (LC) for several years and actually had the privilege of attending his inaugural ball. I’ve seen him and [...]

Last week I had the privilege of being the featured speaker for an audience of executives in the travel industry (and beyond). My thanks extends to Chicke Fitzgerald for the invitation, and for having the foresight to know that life/work balance is a topic that always seems to get a lot of traction. If you’d [...]