Gleaning and Gathering

Through the years, we have done our best to "do life together" as a family. Kaylynn gives us her perspective on what that looked like.

I laughed. I cried. It moved me, Bob.

We've all been there. Your initial plan didn't work out the way that you hoped. What do you do? How do you keep moving forward?

Here are a few thoughts and stories from my experience.

In Waking the Dead, John Eldredge gives this picture of a community of the heart, "Living in community is

Growing communities like Columba did at Iona in A.D. 564 is not very glamourous; It is hard, messy work. But growing communities of the heart to shine as lights in this dark world IS the way forward.

Kaylynn is back, and we are discussing this year's NDPx theme: Rootedness from Colossians 2:6-7.

In an age of mobility, we must recover the virtue of "blooming where we are planted." Constancy is key to all the other virtues, and that happens in a place and with a people.

There are times in our lives as leaders that we don't feel like there is any pathway forward. We feel stuck. The good news is that you can get "unstuck." This episode offers some perspective and life lessons for leaders who are in the battle.

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I've always wanted to record a podcast at the beach... at sunrise, and today I did. The audio is terrible, but the view was spectacular.

A report on "Longing for the Light," the all-night, inter-church prayer movement that happened on February 16 in 33 different locations around the U.S. (and Internationally.)

For more details look at: longingforthelight.org

Leading "off the map" starts by people being able to trust us "on the map." Are we the kind of resilient leader that people can trust and how can we become a person that is trustworthy?

In this episode, I dig into some of the challenges that I'm facing personally and offer some thoughts on leading in crisis and change.

More lessons from the life of George Muller, (particularly when God doesn't answer prayer the way we wish He would.) Asking good questions like, "What is happening? What does it mean? And what is God inviting us into?"

More talk about NDP and how we need to develop ministry with and by young people, not just ministry FOR young people.

I have been reading form The Work of Faith through George Muller edited by Abbie Morrow (originally published in 1899 by The Office of the Revivalist, Cincinnati, OH, Martin Wells Knapp; reprinted in 2005 by Alleghany Publications, Salem OH.) Fascinating read and lots of good stuff gleaned.

Today, Kaylynn and I discuss fundraising philosophy in light of Muller. I have lived in this space for the past 25 years and the things that I share here are meant to be "helpful hints to fellow strugglers." I don't have it all figured out, but this has been a huge area for which I was woefully unprepared as a Christian leader. And it is an area that I hope to be a help to others along the journey.

If you'd like to discuss it further, please let me know.