Sublime

A plurality of elders can be an example to the congregation of unity of mind and heart despite differences. Pastors are not appointed to a church primarily to lead in the instruction of skills and the dissemination of information; they are appointed to a church primarily to lead in Christ-following.

John Ruhlin, John Kane, Jon Vroman, and Hal Elrod, thank you for your friendship, inspiration, and support through this writing journey.

The man I came to know well, over burgers and coffee and old photos and worn bible pages, was a man childlike and growing to the end, proof that the “good news” he always preached could be lived for a lifetime and remain good. His faith and life’s accomplishments did not produce a dour moralism. It did not produce a Graceland-sized ego. For all his

A place where discipline and will become prized for what they are: the backbone of enterprise and action, of being what you are intentionally instead of accidentally. A place that replaces the home most of us have lost. That’s what a business can do; it can create a Game Worth Playing. It can become that place of community. It can become that place

Pastors, preachers, and teachers who are not gifted in the area of leadership default to management.

exemplifies the power and qualities of an artist: the ability to work on an edge, in an interdependent relationship with the medium, with a capacity for creative improvisation.

A “creator” is someone who becomes a fountainhead of value through personal development, shares that value in public, and makes a creative income doing so.

Miles Gilburne,