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When I was a kid, I remember playing a game on the beach that involved building a wall of sand to keep the rising tide on my little piece of beach at bay. At the tide slow rose and began to erode my sand barricade, I would jump from spot to spot reinforcing, pushing [...]
Filed by ob1 at February 23rd, 2010 under leadership
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One of the things most leaders struggle with is that their organisational cultures resist change and progress, with a tendency to cling fast to the status quo, whether it is healthy or dysfunctional. I guess it’s part of the human condition, but it is also a huge problem for the leader who aspires to [...]
Filed by ob1 at February 17th, 2010 under leadership
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It’s always amazing to me how fast news travels, and so this is my attempt to get ahead of the jungle drums and let you know about an important change happening for me and our family.
WHAT’S THE BIG NEWS? The big scoop is that, as of 28 March 2010, I will no longer be [...]
Filed by ob1 at February 1st, 2010 under church, leadership, life
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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never sit in.” –Ancient Greek Proverb
Our world is being consumed by consumers. They’re everywhere. And the Church is not immune to the effects of consumerism. Tragically, in many respects, one of key approaches to growing a local church is [...]
Filed by ob1 at January 28th, 2010 under church, leadership, life
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This video is very scary, but I guess it’s scary to me how poorly informed many folks are about basic political issues anyways. As Australians, we could laugh at some of the feeble responses to questions about what Sarah Palin actually believes in and stands for, but the truth is that most of us [...]
Filed by ob1 at December 8th, 2009 under leadership, life, politics
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Been thinking about this a lot, and I guess the options are:
1. The devil really did do it
2. God is disciplining us (we don’t like to include this one much, but it’s there in the Bible)
3. We’re dumb and did it to ourselves
4. Someone else was dumb and did it to us (directly or indirectly)
It [...]
Filed by ob1 at October 20th, 2009 under church, leadership
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There’s always a smart alec somewhere who will tell you in the midst of your valleys that “it could always be worse…”
And you usually just feel like smacking them in the snoz.
Last year, we had a very tough year financially as a church, and we really had to dig deep in the faith well to [...]
Filed by ob1 at October 16th, 2009 under church, leadership, life
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As often as any important business has to be done in the monastery, let the abbot call together the whole community and himself set forth the matter. And, having heard the counsel of the brethren, let him think it over by himself and then do what he shall judge to be most expedient….
Now the reason [...]
Filed by ob1 at October 9th, 2009 under leadership, life
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Rack this one up in the “Duh!” category, but it just seems so obvious that a group of over-tired and fatigued people operating in a critical function are going to make serious mistakes. Do they not read some of their own research literature on the effects of sleep deprivation?!
I still do not understand why [...]
Filed by ob1 at September 7th, 2009 under leadership, life, science
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It’s been painful watching the Australian cricket team wobble from greatness to patheticness (is that a word?!) during this Ashes series.
Their loss in this final game was easily predictable, given the interviews Ponting was giving in the press before the game. He apparently had the game won before they even stepped on the field, [...]
Filed by ob1 at August 24th, 2009 under leadership, life
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