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The esteemed 20th-century Baptist preacher John Claypool once preached a sermon titled “God is an Amateur.” He used the word “amateur” in the original sense of the word: not as a novice or inexperienced person, but one who does something for the love of it. God’s only motivation is love. My vision – indeed
I live in Northern California which means I live in the shadow of the corporation called Apple. Apple leads all public companies with a $2.08 trillion market cap. In 2018 it was valued at $1 trillion. That’s some amazing growth. It is easy to think they can never be stopped and they have always
For a number of years, I was a coach for churches that were plateaued or dying and expressed a desire for change. The external motivation was a denominational entity that was working hard to keep their churches alive with a hope they would live with a greater sense of mission. The internal motivation of
Timothy Gallwey was a tennis coach, who through a strange set of circumstances, found himself coaching a large corporation in desperate need of change. He met with the top leadership, and they all enthusiastically agreed he was the man to facilitate the change. They just had to figure out how to get started. An
I read Eugene Peterson the way I drink bourbon – slowly and not that often. His writing is not dense, but it is deep. I don’t find myself highlighting something on every page, or even every other page. But the things I do highlight are meaningful. And in pretty much every one of his
In my ebook The Language of Coaching, I compare learning to coach with learning a new language. It’s not that we learn new vocabulary, syntax, grammar and alphabet, but we do learn a new way to speak the language we already know. For new coaches, one of the most challenging aspects of learning this
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