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How do we become better leaders? Real leaders? There is much to be said about you as a leader. Most books describe leadership as a ‘skill building‘ process. Read more books, practice different techniques, gain more knowledge. But that type of leadership process is only scratching the surface of real leadership. For example, how many…

Do you ever ask yourself the question, “Am I doing enough?” I’m not talking about sheer busy-ness–but are you doing enough of what really matters? How would you know if you were? And can’t you always do a little bit more? It’s a haunting question for me. One that I think about when buying a…

Is something missing in how we help the poor? I believe there is. Despite an estimated $2.3 trillion in foreign aid dispensed from Western nations during the post-World War II Era, more than 2.5 billion people, approximately 40 percent of the world’s population, still live on less than two dollars per day. Why do you…

Over the weekend, two different adoptive families posted on the HopeChest Facebook wall about adopting children they met on HopeChest vision trips. While HopeChest is not an adoption agency, we have seen this happen time and time again. Just because we’re not an agency doesn’t mean he doesn’t use us to create forever families through adoption.…

I’ve just returned from Kenya and this post in the New York Times has particular significance to me. As a non-profit leader, I’m constantly asking myself if what we are doing as an organization is truly helping the people we seek to serve. Or, are some of our methods more about an experience we receive…

Like Peter of the Narnia books, we are called and knighted to serve a great master and to protect the weak and defenseless. This is our calling.  We are in a battle without neutral ground. It is the Kingdom of God vs. Satan’s evil in the world. It is Aslan and the Narnians vs. the…

There are few tools more powerful than a well-told story. And C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia are some of the best out there. Like Lewis, I have written fiction and nonfiction books, and I can tell you that moving between the two genres is difficult. Lewis’ genius and creativity is simply remarkable. God’s all about stories.…

What a fascinating time we’ve experience here in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It’s not every day you get the chance to meet with The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Abune Paulos. My Doctoral group from George Fox University had this privilege this morning as we spend the morning at the headquarters of the…

For me, winter isn’t so bad. Colorado gets its share of frost and snow, but that means skiing, snowboarding, hot chocolate. Winter is the anticipation of Christmas, the gathering of friends, the snow-capped mountains that never get old. Sometimes it does get really cold. Like last winter when we turned boiling water into snow outside. But…

“Aslan is on the move.” That is one of my favorite lines from C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Those fivesimple words inspire the inhabitants of Narnia. They know the true King has returned to break the power of the White Witch and end winter in Narnia. Aslan is on the move to…
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