Humility is an interesting challenge. How do we get out of the spotlight? How do we do things in ways that don’t call attention to ourselves? I suppose this thinking was triggered by having spent several conversations during the past couple weeks looking at Paul’s story about how Jesus humbled himself. (I talked about it […]

That wasn’t exactly how I said it on Wednesday when talking with Michael Buckingham at #140conf in Detroit. What I said that morning was that Jesus is the ultimate social medium. What I mean either way is that when the Word put on a body and walked around, having conversations with people, it was what […]

(This post originally appeared February 3, 2009. It is based on Matthew 5:1-12, a list of “blessed”s commonly known as the beatitudes.) You want to follow God. You are feeling like you have nothing to offer, like you are at a party where everyone else brings cool gifts and you are still waiting for your […]

I’m in Detroit as I write this. preparing to speak at a conference on Wednesday (today if you are reading this on October 20). A friend and I are going to talk about how social media (things like Facebook and Twitter, communication media that invite conversations) can help break down the walls of church. We’ve […]

I wrote to a friend yesterday. I said, “Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” It wasn’t very original. It was the end of a prayer that David wrote (Psalm 27). But it’s what came across my desk yesterday and I passed it on to him. “Waiting. That’s […]