Post Update: Congratulations to Brooke Widmer who won a copy of from Blah to Awe!! **************************************************** I wish there had been a Jenna Lucado Bishop when I was growing up… someone I looked up to, admired and who wrote about real life issues with a sensitivity to the anxious questions of a teenager girl. In […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! While most of you are just beginning the day, mine is drawing to close over here in Kolkata, India. What a unique way to spend Valentine’s Day. Today love was… Grasping the frail hand of an elderly woman at Prem Dan, the Missionaries of Charity hospital for tuberculosis patients, and gently massaging […]
You guys know that I’m passionate about pursuing excellence! And I’m excited about some changes we’re working on for this site! Finding out how I can better serve you as readers is an important part of that. I’m hoping you can help me out by giving me a few minutes of your time to complete […]
I am really looking forward to our upcoming series at Cross Point called “Waiting on God.” We all face times when we wonder if we are all alone. Deep down, we know we aren’t, but the question still haunts us. What if God doesn’t show up? What if this situation never changes? But the truth […]
I’m excited today to have a guest post from Cross Point’s Creative Arts Pastor (and my friend) Stephen Brewster! Be sure to visit his blog stephenbrewster.me for other great thoughts on creativity and leadership. It’s a little intimidating to blog for your boss…but it sure is a lot easier when you know she is on […]
For the next 24 hours or so I’ll be enroute to Kolkata, India with our team from Cross Point. We covet your prayers for safe travel and good health. We’ll be sure to share our adventures along the way! You can follow some of our team on twitter: @andymerrick @sethjones1 @betseyboyerjones @j_rein @suebee700 @beccajoylindley […]
For the next 24 hours or so I’ll be enroute to Kolkata, India with our team from Cross Point. We covet your prayers for safe travel and good health. We’ll be sure to share our adventures along the way! You can follow some of our team on twitter: @andymerrick @sethjones1 @betseyboyerjones @j_rein @suebee700 @beccajoylindley […]
As a leader are your creating fans or followers? Fans are fickle Followers are loyal Fans need to be coddled & catered to Followers need to be inspired & challenged Fans bail out when you have a bad day Followers stick with you through the good and bad Fans want to win so they give […]
A few of my favorite things this week… Teeth cleaning today. Really, I love it! An inbox full of banter between our India team who are preparing to leave Wednesday. Say some prayers for us! World Book Night! Okay, pause here for a moment because this is super cool. I read about it on Margaret‘s […]
There is an art to communication. Great communicators inspire us to be better, motivate us to act and encourage us to dream. In all of my efforts through the years to grow as a leader, I under-valued the importance of growing as a communicator until recently. Because my job doesn’t require speaking to masses of […]
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