Can We All Stop Trying To Be Leaders Now?
And this is where contemporary evangelicalism parts ways with Jesus’ leadership style, regardless of how many books we produce trying to convince ourselves of the opposite. You see, Jesus wasn’t about leadership, not even “servant-leadership.” Jesus was about sacrifice. When the scriptures report, “Power went out from him… (Luke 6:19),” it actually did.
There must be something legalistic in the human makeup, because cold, rigid, unambiguous, unparadoxical belief is common, especially considering how fervently the Scriptures oppose it.
And yet there is a silent majority who experience a faith that is attractively marked by combinations of fervor and doubt, clarity and confusion, empathy and moral demand.
Don’t give my husband romance lessons, thank you
And I told him that what is the most romantic thing to me is twofold: consistency and follow-through. My husband is one of the most consistent people I know. Relationships with moody people are hard. I don’t do those kind well. He is not moody. And when he isn’t juggling forty things at work, his follow-through is great. I have a husband who calls me almost every night shortly after 5:00 to ask me if I need anything before he leaves the office. How romantic is that?
Being biblical is a passion for true believers. But discretion is the better part of passion so be careful out there!
10 Things I Learned After America Learned About Me
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is. That’s not mine. It belongs to Irvin Himmel. Somebody tweeted it at me after the NFC Championship Game. If I could pass a lesson on to the kids it would be this: Don’t attack anybody. I shouldn’t have attacked Michael Crabtree the way I did. You don’t have to put anybody else down to make yourself bigger.
Pete Seeger: Folkie, Communist, Millionaire
This accumulation of wealth may have been his greatest failure — perhaps his only failure. The man who sang at hobo camps, labor halls and at union rallies just couldn’t stop making money. An accidental entrepreneur and unwitting capitalist, Seeger was, despite his best efforts, the quintessential American success story.