by David Phillips | Apr 11, 2011 | Culture, Ministry, Books, missional leadership
This is a look at the second temptation of Jesus from Eugene Peterson¢â‚¬â„¢s new book, The Jesus Way: The second temptation: jump off the roof of the temple. The devil wants to use Jesus to dazzle the crowds of people on the street below with a miracle, to put a...
by David Phillips | Apr 11, 2011 | Leadership, Books, Missional, Decentralization, Doctoral Studies, missional leadership
We’ll be looking over the next few weeks at the book, The Starfish and the Spider.‚ To begin our discussion of this book, I want to list the eight principles of a decentralized system they describe in the book.‚ The are essential to our look at open systems...
by David Phillips | Apr 5, 2011 | Books, Communications, missional leadership
Over the next few weeks we will spend some time working through The Big Idea: focus the message, multiply the impact. The book is part of the Leadership Network Innovation Series. It is written by Dave Ferguson, Jon Ferguson, and Eric Bramlett, who are staff leaders...
by David Phillips | Mar 30, 2011 | Books, Communications, Doctoral Studies, missional leadership
Made to Stick is a book that will help you communicate ideas. And the traits or principles that help us do that include Simplicity, Unexpectedness, Credibility, Concreteness, Emotions, and Stories. In this post, we will begin to look at Concreteness. What makes...
by David Phillips | Mar 23, 2011 | Leadership, missional leadership
The world today is all about getting things done.‚ To be productive, one must be inherently organized, able to clean off his desk, and have an empty inbox.‚ Highly productive people should have action plans, strategic plans, visions and values that keep them moving...
by David Phillips | Mar 23, 2011 | Glocal, missional leadership
Over the next few weeks we are looking at Lamin Sanneh’s book, Whose Religion in Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West. It is this section where Sanneh begins a more question and answer format. These questions and answers are broken up into topics with a...
