Slow Down! I live on a street with a middle school at the end of our road. We’ve lived in the same house for nearly 40 years. Many times when I’m outside working in the garden or playing with my grandchildren on the front lawn, cars go whizzing by…at what

Chrissy Chang, LTI’s Coordinator of Online Ministry, recently reflected on the significance of a “monastery of the soul” in our podcast conversation about Psalm 131. She talked about how having a calmed and quieted soul is like a weaned child in her mother’s comforting embrace. Such a beautiful picture offered

It’s already mid-August. How can it be that summer 2024 is nearing its end? I don’t mean to be a downer about it, but my soul is craving the beginning of summer all over again. I had all sorts of godly aspirations for this summer. Unfortunately they mostly got eaten

The “one another” passages in the New Testament are my favorite way of defining the textures and contours of spiritual community. The phrase comes from the Greek word allelon which means “one another, each other, mutually, or reciprocally.” Each time it’s used as an imperative command and the basis for

Henri Nouwen once wrote, “The discipline of the Christian disciple is not to master anything, but rather to be mastered by the Spirit. True Christian discipline is the human effort to create the space in which the Spirit of Christ can transform us into his image.” (The Selfless Way of

Wondering The word “wonder” has a twofold meaning…the verb wonder, as in curiosity, “I wonder what that really means” and it’s opposite, doubt, “I wonder if that marriage will last.” Secondly, the noun wonder, which is more like awe, “noticing the sunrise with the wonder or joy of a child.”

Watching We watch television. Social media. Sports games. Musical performances. Political debates. All relatively passive experiences. What about our active watchfulness? We watch for our loved ones to arrive safely at the door. We watch the oven for the meal to be perfect. We watch our children struggle to learn.

Waiting Who among us likes to wait? Every time I’m confronted with the need to wait I tend more toward impatience. Perhaps you can relate. In the waiting room for the doctor or dentist. I fidget with my phone or grab a magazine to peruse. At the grocery store. I

The Heart of a Discerning Leader – Part 4 The internal life of a leader is reflected in the external world of relationships, service, and mission. We say at Leadership Transformations, “As the leader goes, so goes the organization…more importantly, as the soul of the leader goes, so goes the

The Heart of a Discerning Leader – Part 3 The examples of toxic leadership among Christians is on the rise. Most of them surround the concept of power – and it’s misuse. Every leader possesses power and authority at various levels, and the key to effective leadership is leveraging that