Your Platform with God

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about building platforms. Build your platform so you can grow your tribes…expand your audience…extend your reach…multiply your influence. Having a nice platform of followers helps to sell books. Grow attendance. Catalyze leaders. Book concerts or events. Whatever it is you want to do… but more of it. Platform building has its place. It’s a necessary component to stewarding...

Finding God’s Will :: Part 2

Finding the will of God for major decisions in your life can be challenging. In my E-paper, Six Steps for Finding God’s Will, I discuss this very idea. The first step in finding the will of God is to peel away, or distance yourself from, your own self-will. You’re right. It’s not that simple. But the process can be powerful! Lets take a closer look. When Jesus found himself in Gethsemane, He was a nervous...

Six Steps for Finding God’s Will

In the 1950’s, Mattel (the toy company) created the Magic Eight-Ball. Now, I wasn’t around then, but decades later when I was a kid, those toys surfaced in garage sales from time to time. (Now they’re stored in museums.) This is how the Magic Eight-Ball was used… Suppose a boy had a crush on Jenny, the cute girl that sat next to him in second grade. He asked the eight-ball, “Will I marry Jenny someday?” After violently shaking the...