The Notebook

Recently I tweeted that I believe that everything in a church, ministry, business, NGO, or NPO in fact does hinge on leadership. With great leaders the organization will flourish and fulfill it’s mission, whether to develop unbelievers into fully committed followers of Christ or to grow a busi...

The Church can only become missional when it sends it’s people out to engage the world and must be modeled by those who lead it. Pastors, church planters, elders, board members, ministry directors who do not engage their culture should not be pastors, church planters, elders, board members, or...

When you have an honest to goodness call of God in your life, you can’t help but take action. His call compels you. His love and grace draw you. Our love for Him spurs us to action that sometimes is met with skepticism and negativity from others. Call is a question of “who” you are […]...

I am in the finishing process of writing a new book on vision that is a revision/rewrite of my previous book VisionalLife. This book will have many of the same principles but will focus on the spiritual clutter we might have in our life that prevent us from the living the vision God has for [&hellip...

I consider myself a people person. I just like to be around people and am able to relate to and interact with people. Growing up in a family with four brothers and four sisters probably equipped me for having an outgoing personality. There was never a dull moment in the Calloway household. We were b...

Mother Teresa seemingly answered the ultimate call according to the world’s standards. She gave up a teaching position at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta to work among those whose poverty is beyond imagination. During the latter years of her life, she was hailed and honored by heads of states...

Second, you need to determine what kind of person you are going to be in this life. Your vision is an issue of character and integrity. I don’t know any better description of what Jesus was like in character than in Galatians 5 where Paul writes about the fruit of what God’s power does in [&hell...

Over the next three days I want to look at steps in implementing God’s vision for you. These are not “magical” ingredients that when you do them God’s vision automatically appears. When you put these habits into practice, you will be ready for God to work in and through you. Step One –...

We have to determine in our lives when to stop and when to go. When are there red lights and when are there green lights and should we pay attention to the yellow lights that mean we should use caution. When the green light comes on regarding vision, we cannot sit still, we must move. […]...

In the game Monopoly, you must start at a space on the game board titled GO. The game revolves around this one spot. It is the central location on the game board that maps out the possible properties to purchase. In our lives the “GO” box is the point when we actively begin to realize […]...