Here are a few resources to help you get the new year off to a great start. What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done. Of course I’ll be recommending my book here! The beginning of the year is a good time to refine your mission, vision, roles and goals. What’s […]
Using Your Saturdays Well and Two Other Excellent Posts
Chris Misiano organizes and oversees on-campus events at Liberty university and, on the side, has been my assistant for the last year-and-a-half. I am amazed at his productivity and ability to stay on top of things. He is also an incredible writer. Here are three very helpful articles that he has recently produced that I […]
Keeping an Eye on the Backward Clock: How Getting Things Done Relates to the Biblical Call for Holiness
Scott Belsky, in Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality: The notion of the backward clock is simple: if you were told the exact year, day, and time that your life would end, would you manage your time and energy any differently? Even if that date were seventy-three years, twelve days, two […]
John Piper Interviews Rick Warren on Doctrine — And Thoughts on the Significance of Their Relationship
The video of John Piper interviewing Rick Warren is now online. Here’s some of what John Piper had to say about it at the Desiring God blog: The nature of the interview is mainly doctrinal. I read Rick’s The Purpose Driven Life with great care. I brought 20 pages of quotes and questions to the […]
Updating Edward's Teaching on Heavenly Rewards
Recently I’ve been thinking a bit more about Edwards teaching on heavenly rewards. Briefly, Edwards teaches, as the Bible seems to (Luke 19:13-19; 2 Corinthians 4:17-18; Ephesians 6:8), that there are degrees of rewards in the new heavens and new earth. But this will not be the cause of any unhappiness, for it doesn’t mean […]
Being Proactive is Christian
I posted about six months or so ago on what it means to be proactive. In that post, I quoted from Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I think we all realize the truth of Covey’s observations from the nature of human experience. As a parent, for example, it seems undeniable to […]
The Case for Slack
From the Harvard Business Review article “The Case for Slack: Building ‘Incubation Time’ into Your Week”: Slack is anathema to most manufacturing processes, but it’s indispensable for creativity. How can you build in the incubation time required for breakthrough strategies and ideas? Start by changing your mental model of production, suggests Michael Connor, manufacturing director […]
A Look Inside RC Sproul's Office
HT: Alex Chediak
Christians and Negotiation
Alex Chediak wrote an excellent article on Christians and negotiation about a year ago that remains relevant today and always will. I haven’t written up anything on negotiation, but if I ever do it will be very close to what Alex wrote. He covers some of the key principles, which include: Separate the people from […]
Raising Socially Literate Children
Keith Ferrazi gives 6 tips for kick-starting thinking on raising kids that are great at online media but bad at in-person interaction. Here’s the first part: Are we raising a nation of teenagers who r omg totally gr8 texters, but total dopes when it comes to managing face to face communication? Your teenage child sends […]