When you’ve “arrived” in ministry, you begin to get a distorted view of self. A distorted view of self leads to an ineffective and unholy you, and then an ineffective ministry. At a recent staff retreat, my friend and retreat speaker, Mark Bricker, using Paul Tripp’s A Dangerous Calling book as a framework, reminded us that “arriving” comes via: Ministry... View Article
“In the church, as long as you appear busy, people rarely question your knowledge or effectiveness. They assume whenever there is a cloud of dust, meaningful activity must be just ahead of it. So I started kicking up perpetual dust clouds.” – Fil Anderson Fil Anderson is the author of a book I read more than a decade ago, Running... View Article
Growing up in Tucson, we had an alley behind our house. On one side of the alley there was a cement wash for flood waters. On the other side, wooden fences to houses. During the day, this was a great area to play in. We’d ride bikes in the cement wash (even though we were told not to because of... View Article