This weekend I participated in the first weekend event in years in which I did not participate as the guest speaker but as the leader. Can I just say speaking is much easier?  But the great team who helped me enjoyed along with me a fantastic weekend: getting to know new friends, learning more about [...]

Seth Godin wrote the following this morning about Jack Lalanne, who has influenced most of you who read this whether you know him or not.  Read this, and note my comments regarding movements stated parenthetically: Eight Lessons from the life and work of Jack LaLanne He bootstrapped himself. A scrawny little kid at 15, he [...]

Yesterday I took my bride Michelle and daughter Hannah to lunch. We sat down and quickly met our server, a single young man in his 20s named David. As is my custom I tried to be friendly and, without taking too much time as he had a job to do, got to know him beyond [...]

I sat with a group of doctoral students this week listening intently to their presentations. In several cases I read over their papers as they presented. Like so many other classes I found the following again and again: Opening sentence (examples not direct quotes): Jonathan Edwards is one of the great leaders from the First [...]

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on [...]