A search of the Scripture makes it clear that God is a God of purpose. He made everything and everyone with a clear purpose in mind. The fact that God has a purpose and carries out His purposes is very clear in the Scripture. “Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the…
A man can bear any what if he has a big enough why. —Nietzsche, the German philosopher The why Nietzsche refers to is really meaning or purpose in life. Purpose matters! I have seen firsthand in business and many ministries that people will give their lives to achieve a meaningful purpose. Some are willing to…
I didn’t like being out in the cold in the winter. But there were many things I did like about growing up on a farm. I could look behind the tractor after I plowed a field and see what I had accomplished. I could look at the milk can and see the milk after I…
(This is the second part of the blog post entitled Leaders See A River. If you have not read Part 1, you may want to read that segment first, then return to this blog.) So what does this [river metaphor] have to do with organizations? Many things in nature make a good analogy for what we…
Visionary Leaders See the Big Picture I actually had a dream about this. In the dream, God told me that I would soon see a small waterfall and to stare at it to see what I could see. A few days later, I was in the mountains and did indeed see a small waterfall. I…