I spent the day with Geno Olison, a dear friend and Vineyard Church planter in Chicago's south suburbs.  Geno and Shannon Olison lead the South Suburban Vineyard in Homewood, IL.Geno and I talked in his home office (shown here) before he gave me a tour of the suburbs where he and his team are ministering ...Continue reading "Church planter Geno Olison"

What?  Pastors worry?  Not on this planet, surely...Last week I was with 10 life coaches who love pastors.  It was remarkable the number of worried pastors we coaches are connected to.  That's why I am increasingly convinced of how much every pastor needs a coach.  Here's how one of the discussions from last week went:OneContinue reading "Pastors who worry"

Maddie Follis, the beautiful girl smack in the middle of the photo [and a girl that I know quite well], smiles along with the other cheerleaders at a recent Anderson University basketball game in Anderson, Indiana.

This week I am up in Wisconsin with about a dozen life-coaches.  The event is sponsored by Cornerstone Church Network.  We are pastors and coaches and denominational executives and even businessmen.  We are learning from each other.  It's been pretty exhilarating and, as with all good work, it is also hard work.  The picture is the bronzeContinue reading "Life coaching discussions…"

I am regularly coaching pastors and leaders from all over.  One of the keys is asking great questions.  Here are some really deep questions that I keep in my bag of questions.   And I don't always ask them exactly in this form, but I like all four of them a lot.  They can really make you think...* WhoContinue reading "More Great Questions…"

From one of my favorite writers, Thomas Merton...“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness”A question:  Do you focus on what peopleContinue reading "Who are you, anyway?"