Empowerment

My Review on Junia Is Not Alone

December 9, 2011

As I was wrapping up Scot McKnight’s King Jesus Gospel, which you can see my thoughts on here, McKnight released a short e-book entitled Junia Is Not Alone. I bought it immediately – because of my familiarity with Junia and my curiosity about the connections McKnight would make between her and female in ministry throughout [...]

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Is Pain the Key to Empowerment?

November 2, 2011

It’s timely to re-post today one of the most popular posts ever on my blog, or top 10 at least. Morgan’s got another jog-a-thon in the morning (Thursday) and it brings back a lot of memories documented here. She’s still nervous about it, because like one of her parents she takes everything super seriously [...]

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New Article: SIX Postures!

November 1, 2011

I’m excited to spread the word about a new resource/article I’ve been putting some work into. I’ve only done some editing work, but several staff I work with on my team in Epic as well as others in Destino and Nations have written a great article telling the other side of the story of the [...]

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Turning the Corner on Sex in Marriage (Final post)

October 22, 2011

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Why I Love It When My Wife Says NO to Sex

Since 1 Corinthians 7 is the central passage by which all the teaching these posts have been written in response to, it’s a necessity to address this passage and represent what I believe it to be teaching and what I believe it is not teaching. These teachings are not taught everywhere. Even where and when [...]

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Dudes Aren’t Cavemen

October 21, 2011

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Why I Love It When My Wife Says NO to Sex

As the fourth post in five posts related to the issue of sex and marriage, I want to give a reminder that I’m not really trying to take on any one group or situation. These are things I have wanted to articulate for the sake of young couples especially who are struggling to sort out [...]

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Why I Like It When My Wife Says No to Sex Part 2: Turning the Tables

October 15, 2011

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Why I Love It When My Wife Says NO to Sex

This is the second post as continue this unusual series on “Why I Like It When My Wife Says No to Sex.” You can check out the first post, which contains the context of this series, here. Turning the Tables: Patriarchy and Sex Advice If I can be honest here, I’m a night owl. So [...]

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How do you keep leaders from pressing the Eject button?

September 29, 2011

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Future of Cru

After some good dialogue in my last post on the Civil Rights Movement, here is Post #5 in my series on the Future of CRU and it was inspired by a post Michael Hyatt tweeted out on retaining talent. It’s worth reading because this is such an under-appreciated element of leadership and in ministry especially. [...]

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Helping vs. Partnering

July 10, 2011

I’m working on a writing project right now and I’m posting a section of it here that functions as a small “aside” in the article. I’m leaving the language as is so note that references to “we” are anchored in a different project with multiple authors, but would love your thoughts if you have any. [...]

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Conquering the Potty: Empowerment Case Study

May 31, 2011

If you’ve followed me on facebook you know that one of the things we’ve doing seemingly over the last six months has been potty training my son. That process more or less miraculously came to a conclusion about a month and half ago, but wanted to give it its own space here since embedded in [...]

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