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  • When God Shows Up

    When God Shows Up

    Then fire from the LORD came down and burned the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the ground around the altar. It also dried up the water in the ditch. (1 Kings 18:38 NCV) I find it cool that Elijah prayed for the sacrifice to be burnt up and God burnt everything around the…

  • Something New for Young Leaders: Next Up Releases Today!

    Something New for Young Leaders: Next Up Releases Today!

    I’m really excited today to see a project that’s been over a year in the making finally come into full view. My book, Next Up: 8 Shifts Great Young Leaders Make releases today. One of the things that we need in the church and in the world in general today more than ever before is young…

  • 3 Quick Tools To Boost Productivity

    3 Quick Tools To Boost Productivity

    Reminders (iOS) If you have an iPhone, the reminders app is a gem in hiding. It’s not pretty and not effective as a stand alone productivity system, but it’s great at adding quick reminders. I use Siri with Reminders more than any other app. “Remind me to call Dan at 10am.” “Remind me to…

  • New Next Up Podcast: H Is For Honor

    New Next Up Podcast: H Is For Honor

    This month on the Next Up Podcast, we’re tackling the subject of honor. In light of Kevin Durant’s MVP acceptance speech and in light of our generation’s tendency to ignore honor, we thought we’d talk about what honor is, who we should honor, how we should honor, and why it’s important. You can subscribe…

  • 3 Times to Adjust Our Personal Systems

    3 Times to Adjust Our Personal Systems

    No matter who you are or what you do. No matter if you consider yourself a leader or not. You have systems in your life. You have processes and systems hat you run through everyday in just about every situation. Whether it be your “system” for getting started with your day in the morning,…

  • 6 Old Sayings That Are Still True

    6 Old Sayings That Are Still True

    You’ve heard in conversation sentences that begin with, “As the old saying goes…” Sometimes, that cues us to immediately think that what is going to follow is going to be an outdated and untrue statement. The other day, someone started a sentence in conversation that way and what they said made a lot of…