Welcome Home: Celebrating 15 Years of Soul Hospitality for Leaders The 15th Anniversary of Leadership Transformations was July 1, 2018. It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade and a half since Ruth and I ventured into this new ministry terrain. It was a healthy mixture of faith and

Have you given up or added anything to help you focus on the quality of your personal discipleship and spiritual formation this Lenten season? I was on the fence myself, right up to the last minute, but when I heard that one of the younger leaders we serve was giving up Facebook

The Year of Friendship: With God, Others and Self – part 7 The biblical text comes alive when the subject of friendship is revealed. As we conclude this blog series on spiritual friendship let me point you to several places in the Scriptures for your prayerful consideration, either alone or

“The Year of Friendship: With God, Others and Self” – part 6 Why is it that some of us have many life-giving friendships and others have very few? Perhaps we live in a place where it’s unsafe to foster friendship, as some would attest who live in very hostile environments.

  “The Year of Friendship: With God, Others, and Self” – part 5 Immediately after college I began serving in a local church setting. My first ministry supervisor became my mentor and my friend. More than four decades later I can happily report that he’s still one of my mentors and

“The Year of Friendship: With God, Others and Self” – part 4 If all of a sudden three days opened up for you next week and you had unlimited resources at your fingertips to pamper yourself, guilt-free, how would you use your time? I know that for one of my

“The Year of Friendship: With God, Others and Self” – part 3 My wife and I recently spent an evening with friends we’ve known for nearly four decades. Such friends are pure gold; rare gems; and a joy to know. We’ve seen each other through the highest highs and the

The Year of Friendship: With God, Others and Self On the heels of our most recent blizzard, the first day post-storm was sunny and beautiful, but the weather people called it a day of “inconsequential sunshine.” I’m sure what they meant was that the sunshine would not affect the temperatures

2018: The Year of… I’m deeply concerned about the diminution of a very important word. It’s been absconded by social media. It’s been destroyed by politics and the media. It’s been lost in our closed-off neighborhoods. It’s absent in many business settings. It’s missing in far too many Christian ministry and

  A New Year’s Prayer By Stephen A. Macchia Throughout the New Year 2018, may the Lord grant you the courage and strength to… Dream more Complain less Listen more Talk less Love more Argue less Forgive more Divide less Hope more Fear less Relax more Worry less Help more