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A Few Management Errors

I’ve watched managers and leaders screw up their own position so badly that they destroyed the operation itself. This is not guidance you’ll get from a secular or Christian leadership seminar. This is guidance that comes from the Ancient Hebrew … Continue reading

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Shepherd Instinct 2

Always be ready to walk away. In the previous lesson, we noted what happens when you are on your own turf. What happens when it’s not your turf? If the Lord does not deliver a situation into your hands, you … Continue reading

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Shepherd Instinct 1

(I’m trying to organize a series of concise lessons about how to think like the ANE shepherd in opposition to any part of Western social mythology about manhood.) Don’t cave. Ever. Western Civilization has created the laziest men on earth. … Continue reading

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Moral Rewiring Job

Most people are morally wired like children. In the past I’ve mentioned the Delphi Method for destroying opposition to radical changes in a system. It’s the sort of discrete and scientific method you would expect from Pavlovian folks, never mind … Continue reading

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Basic Neurosis Removal

Neurosis is a moral problem, not a sickness. It amounts to permission for demons to harass you because you’ve rejected some element(s) of God’s moral justice in this fallen world. In most cases we could characterize it as attempting to … Continue reading

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HOWTO: Intergenerational Conflict

The conflict between generations is peculiar to the West. Fundamental to God’s moral character, as man can know it, is social stability. Fallen human nature fights it tooth and nail, but when we cling to God’s moral laws, we find … Continue reading

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Ego and Accountability

Be yourself; stop demanding the world be you. I saw it again today — solipsism syndrome in action. This isn’t the philosophical position you may have read about, but a psychological loss of ego boundaries. Infants are born incapable of … Continue reading

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Contemptuous Games

Head games are immoral and not always harmless. There are times when I play silly little computer games to distract my conscious mind while my spirit spills over into my subconscious mind. That sort of ego suspension serves the purpose … Continue reading

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The Sorrows of the Day

The work of the Lord is changing people. It’s my work, too, but only in the sense I am just a messenger. And when God does His work in the human heart, sometimes I’m there as a spectator who gets … Continue reading

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Mysticism and Church Planting

How would yours truly go about planting a church? Things have changed since the first century when the Apostles scattered across the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean regions. They brought something totally new in many ways and it needed a … Continue reading

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