Sublime

man named Matt Hale. He owned several executive search firms that specialized in accounting, data management, and

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

In other words, the key to the leader's public usefulness is his inner, unseen life. Character is what we are when no one is looking. The leader is leading all the time and, for the most part, unconsciously. Your holiness matters greatly to those you have been entrusted to lead.

If the need for holiness is one challenge I shall take from this book,

at the very bottom

But a slick youth program is no substitute for a youth pastor who unapologetically teaches the Bible.

I’d like to expose the main reason why I still struggle to stay true to the incarnational way of life. Here it is. I know that if I do, people will find Jesus, and then I’m going to have to walk with them … for a long time!

Over the years Chuck Proudfit has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars from Skillsource profits for ministry work ranging from micro-enterprises to job retraining to At Work On Purpose, the work life ministry he founded.