by David Phillips | Jun 22, 2011 | Ministry
Finishing great is really hard. I’ve always been a good starter – even a great starter. But finishing well has always been difficult. Recently, University of Chicago psychologists Minjung Koo and Ayelet Fishbach examined how people pursuing goals were...
by David Phillips | Jun 18, 2011 | Change Theology, Formation
Perspective. Perspective determines meaning. It defines reality. Friedrich Nietzsche said “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” He was right. It was the English nonconformist preacher Philip...
by David Phillips | Jun 16, 2011 | Change Theology, Formation
I love classic cars. My favorite is a 1955 Chevy. With a candy-apple red paint scheme and nice chrome, there is not a more beautiful car on the road. If I were a wealthy man, I would buy an old ’55 and restore it. I would also buy a 1940 Ford for my dad –...
by David Phillips | May 26, 2011 | Culture, Formation, Communications, Missional
I was talking recently with a young college student finishing his first year at a community college. He was doing a paper and I asked how the paper was going. He told me he was about half way through, it was due in a couple of days and he had run out of resources. I...
by David Phillips | May 25, 2011 | Ministry, Communications, Culture, Formation
With this post I begin a series on the impact education, knowledge and cultural trends should have on communication and spiritual formation in the church. In this post, I talk about the knowledge deficit in American, especially in young adults. In early 2011, at the...
