Yesterday during the message I gave at church I referred to The Whale Principle of Leadership: He/she who rises up and spouts off gets harpooned. This principle is the way things work in our world. Especially now. We love to release the harpoon. I think it results in a lot of good voices refusing to rise up and be heard. It is better to play it safe, we think. The first half of 2021 I engaged in a course with Seth Godin called The Creatives Workshop. My project was to write. It was in a diverse community of other people […]
I was teasing a friend of mine this morning about her having to get up earlier than usual to get her son to church to serve on the technology team. It was all in good fun. It then became a comparison with another friend of mine who is a Pastor in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. When he went home on Saturday, all was good. And then the volcano erupted. Fortunately for Pascal, his home was not affected. But a number of people in his church were impacted. He had at least 10 families who contacted him who were searching […]