Everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day

At least in America, where I live, everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. It doesn’t matter if you actually have any ancestors from Ireland. People wear green shirts, order Shamrock shakes, or even dye their city river green (I’m looking at you, Chicago). But it...

7 keys to the healing of personal woundedness

Transfer of identity: We must be made to see our value in the redeeming work of Christ. Building bridges: Safe relationships where mutual transparency and unconditional love are practiced. Challenge: Stimulating one another to actively confront issues of woundedness...

How to contextualize training

Lately I’ve been working on putting together missional coach training for a couple of different groups. I’ve done quite a lot of these types of trainings over the years, but no two are ever quite the same. Even when two different groups need and want the same basic...