Fuzzy Thoughts of David

Category: Leadership

  • The One Word that will Change Your Life

    The One Word that will Change Your Life

    Unimportant Words There was a Peanuts’ Cartoon where Charlie Brown was making a sign and Lucy, because the sign was wordy, kept marking out words one after another until all Charlie Brown had was a one word sign. Apparently, some words are unimportant. We can communicate without them. However, some words are important, such as…

  • Shared Leadership and the Church

    Shared Leadership and the Church

    Wheels of Progress In over twenty years of pastoring, I have not known the church to be on the “cutting edge” of culture. There may be an argument about some mega-churches focusing on innovation, but for the majority of churches, the wheels of progress move quite slowly. The statements of “We’ve never done it that…

  • A Book that Changed My Life

    A Book that Changed My Life

    A Book Really Changed Your Life? Some might say the title exhibits hyperbole. Perhaps, but I’m not completely convinced. I don’t name this post lightly. Let me share why I say a book changed my life. Along with several other churches, my church was participating in a transformational process sponsored by our conference. One of…

  • Experiments in Transformational Leadership

    Experiments in Transformational Leadership

    This post contains both a confession and a vision. Over the past three or four years I have been facilitating pastor peer groups for one of our conference programs. The objective of the groups are that each pastor can become the transformational leader he or she is called to be. A few times, after reading…