Harry Truman is credited with the powerful leadership axiom, “It’s amazing what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.” Today I saw this lived out again with Todd Petkau and the team at Riverwood Church Community in Winnipeg. Riverwood has been our Global Leadership Summit partner for two years, and each…
Wouldn’t you know it. It got me again.
I just re-watched a clip from the 2010 Global Leadership Summit, and once again something started to stir inside me. It happens every time. Bill Hybels opened the clip with these words: “I really do believe…you’ve heard me say it a thousand times….that the local church is the hope of the world. But for it…
Seizing the Moments
Three weeks. To me, three weeks is a blip; a hiccup, a momentary interruption. But to my daughter, three weeks is a major setback. Three weeks. My 19 year old daughter Amy is set to head back to Australia for a full year internship at the Youth With a Mission (YWAM) base where she attended…
The Journey to Hear and Obey God’s Voice
It was one of the coldest days we’d had all winter, and I was in a hurry to get back to the office after a lunch meeting in town. Driving along the highway I noticed the car stranded along the shoulder of the road, but didn’t think much of it. But as I motored on…
An Ancient Look at Tomorrow’s Church
Standing in the town square in Heidelberg, Germany, I couldn’t take my eyes off the grandeur of the cathedral that sat directly in the centre of the old city. Built during the great Reformation, it was as if all roads in the city were designed to run to and from the spiritual centre of town.…
