April 2012
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IT'S A NEW DAY
As we launch out of this past weekend’s celebration of Easter and the all-thing-new-ness that Easter makes possible, it’s a new day. For me. For our family. For LHC. For this blog.
It’s a new day. And I’m feeling … good.
The Long View of Leadership
When Jeff Long, University of Arkansas A.D., fired football Coach Bobby Petrino tonight, he bit a bullet and did what no one would’ve wanted to do. And the only thing he should’ve done.
Just to recap:
Sun., April 1 Petrino wrecks his motorcycle and tells his boss that “a woman” was just there and flagged down a passerby who took him to the hospital.
Thur., April 4 Petrino calls Long to tell him...
January 2012
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Staying Power
Momentum matters. Winning trumps losing. But God bless those who stay. Those who stick around and stick to it long enough to see momentum ebb and flow and keep coming back for more.
A few years ago, I was at a small gathering of pastors. And the topic du jour was the recent resignation of a big name pastor and author to follow God into the unknown of what would be next. The prevailing sentiment...
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Crossfit Lessons #3: How Many Can You Do When...
One of the bedrock principles of Crossfit is high intensity training over a short duration. Toward the end of one of my early workouts, I was doing pushups with a weighted vest on after flipping a tractor tire multiple times (Don’t ask—these people do some weird stuff). As I was nearing the last push of the session, I was hating life and Web, grinding through some pushups when he got on the floor...
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Crossfit Lessons #2: Monumental From Incremental
Once I started getting comfortable with being uncomfortable, I noticed something else was going on:
Incremental choices created monumental changes.
Certainly not in and of themselves. But, just the simple decision to train—no matter what—on days when I didn’t feel like it, when I was stressed or distracted, when it was too cold, or any other host of excuses led to noticeable and sustained changes....
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Crossfit Lessons #1: The Poison of Comfort
2011 will forever be remembered as the year I met Crossfit. Under the able coaching and frequent harangue of Web Smith (@CrossfitChron), who also redesigned my blog, I discovered a whole new world of training that I’d never known before. In discovering Crossfit, I also discovered some immutable laws of life that transcend working out and strengthen performance as a husband, a dad, a pastor, and...
MERRY NEW YEAR!!!
In the beginning, God created…
Gen. 1:1a
This is how God opens his love letter to humanity in the book of Genesis. But, what if we used it as a template to open our love letter to him in 2012? What if everyone who claims the label Christian began this year praying with everything we have to ask God how to create a year that reflects, proclaims, and honors him?
To be sure,...