What Justice Ministry might look like in your church
7/31/13 A few years ago I was invited by Pastor Nathan Ivy, from Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY to talk about externally focused /... Read More
A day with Jim Collins
7/24/13 Yesterday Leadership Network sponsored “A Day with Jim Collins” for 20 pastors and leaders in Boulder. My son, Andy from China,... Read More
Mom & Dad’s 65th Wedding Anniversary Today
Mother and Dad celebrate 65 years of marriage today. On December 26, 1947 Violet Gustafson and Boyd Swanson tied the knot at... Read More
Christmas 1971
This poem was written by my cousin Dennis’ son, Mark Berglund, recalling Christmas at our house in Stockton, CA 41 years ago.... Read More
Strategy Canvas & Externally Focused Small Groups
A couple of weeks ago we had the last session of our Externally Focused Small Groups (EFSGs) InnovationLab. It was a great... Read More
Moneyball and your marriage
Most of you have seen the movie Moneyball, based on Michael Lewis’ book of the same title. The story is built around... Read More
Starting With Why: Getting More Traction in Your Ministry
How important is your church’s mission? Who even remembers what the mission is? How do you know if your mission is the... Read More
What I learned about Marriage Ministry after looking at the Websites of Outreach’s 100 largest churches
In preparation for leading Leadership Network’s Marriage Ministry InnovationLab (http://leadnet.org/site/page/3233) I spent several hours looking up Websites to discover what the 100... Read More
What percentage of married people are happy?
Lately I’ve been asking people, “What percentage of married people do you think would say they are happily married?” I’ve heard responses... Read More
What we can learn from Ecotones
We’ve seen them but never known what they are called. They are those spaces between ecosystems—between forest and grasslands, between mountain forest... Read More