Leadership is not an Individual Sprint, but a Team Relay

I was a young man with little experience; but I had a sense of purpose and a willingness to work hard and learn. In the earliest years of my career, God placed a few key leaders in my life who entrusted me with responsibility and deputized me with authority.  Authority and responsibility should be given in equal doses and in gradual degrees. Authority without responsibility yields pride. Responsibility without authority results in frustration.  Moses was an amazing (albeit imperfect) leader. He led multi-thousands of people out of Egyptian bondage into a period… Read More

The Day Moses Broke All Ten Commandments

I’m not sure if we admit it as much as we used to, but we all sin pretty regularly.  For those who recognize the authority of Scripture, sin is defined by two words: transgression & iniquity. Transgression is the crossing of a line, the outward act of sin. Iniquity is the inner motivation, our fleshly bent toward sin. (The good news is that Jesus was both wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquity!) Even if a person refuses to accept God’s word as the standard of right and wrong, there… Read More

Eternal Life is Worth Earthly Hardship.

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves. (Exodus 1:12-14 ESV) What is celebrated in one generation may barely be tolerated in the next. Jacob and his sons had come… Read More