Category: Books
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Leadership Learnings
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I love to glean leadership lessons from the blogosphere. The Exponential Network put together their own collection in…
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Movements and Change
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I’ve been researching “social movements” of late and discovered the following definition of movements: “a collective action that…
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Movement Leaders as Heretics
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As one commentator said, Seth Godin’s new book, Tribes, is an enthusiastic endorsement of standing up and taking…
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A Rope of Sand
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George Whitefield was Methodism’s first and most popular spokesman. Ben Franklin, one of Whitefield’s admirers, devised an experiment…
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Check out Movementbuilders.com
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Check out Shane Walton’s Movement Builders blog. I’m loving everything I’m reading there. Because Shane is focusing on…
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Inspire Evangelists
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In Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, Crutchfield and Grant argue that high-impact nonprofits excel…
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Forces for Good–Spiritual Movements as High-Impact Nonprofits
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Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant. Jossey-Bass…
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What we need are ideas!
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In a challenging little book entitled “How to Re-Imagine the World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries”, Anthony…
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Good To Great applied to Movement Building
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Jim Collin’s bestselling book on organizational behavior, “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others…
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The Metronome of Movements
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I’ve been playing with the idea of seeing movement building like a metronome. As you know, a metronome…
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A Willingness to Listen
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In a side note in his book, The Next Generation Leader, Andy Stanley made the following comment: It…
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Self Directed Learning for Leaders
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In his book Primal Leadership, emotional intelligence expert Daniel Goleman says it like this: The crux of leadership…
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A Sense of Sentness
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Forty times in the book of John, Jesus refers to himself as being sent by the Father. When…
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Helping Disciples Learn from Jesus
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Over the few years, I’ve been wrestling with the characteristics common to all spiritual movements. I’ve grown committed…
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What is the Gospel?
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Scot McKnight of jesuscreed.org (one of the best blogs around) defines the gospel as follows: The gospel is…
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Christ-followers as Translators
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When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow countrymen either in the highly…
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The Story of the North Platte Canteen
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The story of the North Platte Canteen is the story of a movement. See: Making 10 Minutes Count…
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Teams That Build Movements
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Jesus realized what we often forget—wellfunctioning and motivated teams are critical to success. When Jesus wanted to build…
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A Recipe for Imagination
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A Recipe for Imagination It’s time to cook up something other than macaroni and cheese. The stale recipes…
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McManus on Being Effective
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Erwin McManus argues that to be effective as church planters or movement builders, we must value: Uniqueness over…
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Equipping Your Key Volunteers
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We’ll never build movements apart from building multiplying leaders. And all leaders begin as key volunteers. Don Simmons,…
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The In Extremis Leader
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I was fascinated by the Leader to Leader summary of Thomas Kolditz book on In Extremis Leadership. In…
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Simple Movements
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When querying the universe, Albert Einstein once commented, “When the solution is simple, God is answering.” Several weeks…
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Good News and Good Deeds: Visibility and Credibility and Compassion Part II
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I just received a ezine quoting the last chapter of John Piper’s new book, The Future of Justification.…
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Good News and Good Deeds: Visibility and Credibility and Compassion
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What is the relationship between good news and good deeds in our movement building? I’ve been wrestling with…
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Rediscovering Christianity’s Beginnings
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes…
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Richard Foster on Movement Building
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In May of 2004, Richard Foster wrote seven reflections … lessons from the 15 year history of Renovare.…
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Starbucks and Movement Building
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I admit it. I’m an addict, a Starbucks’ addict. I’m sitting right now at my computer with a…
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Get this Book and Read it!
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I’ll be posting excerpts of Neil Cole’s book on the “multiplication of movements.” I’m finding it particularly challenging…
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Requisites for a Cultural Movement
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French born historian, Jacques Barzun (From Dawn to Decadence, 2000) argues that the first requisite to cultural change…
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