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My good friend, Toney Mulhollan, owner of Illumination Publishers, (ipibooks.com) asked me to post this sales advert for my book on Paul. Toney continues to believe that this book deserves a wider reading audience than it has enjoyed thus far. Of course, I agree that it is a good book, with a very interesting back-story to its writing -- described in the Introduction. So, here is the ad Toney sent and asked me to post.
In preparation for an upcoming teaching slot for the DFW church campus ministry interns, I was looking for a few things in my 2012 book, "Dynamic Leadership." I haven't promoted the book or even mentioned it very often in recent years, although I was invited to speak on the topic many times when the book was first published. When I do occasionally mention it now, many are not even aware of it, including leaders. "Golden Rule Leadership" is still spoken of much more, perhaps because it was seen as radical for its day and controversial. "Dynamic Leadership" is a far more in-depth book. Wyndham Shaw, with whom I co-authored GRL, wrote the Foreword to DL. He told me at the time that he believed it was the most important book I had ever written. Ron Brumley, who was then serving as an elder in Seattle, said he would never recommend a second book on leadership to anyone until they had first read DM. Pretty high commendations from pretty outstanding leaders (now both deceased).Although everything in the book might not be of interest to you, the overall leadership principles in the book should make it, as Wyndham said in the Foreword, "a must read for every evangelist, elder, teacher, deacon, board member and small group leader in our churches today!" The section on “The Military Model” would help you understand why the negative approaches to ministry leadership occurred in our earlier church history and hopefully help you recognize and soundly reject them now. They have not disappeared. In looking back through it, I wish everyone had, and newer leaders would still, see it as "must" reading. It has been translated into Spanish as well. I promise it would be worth your time reading it.
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Thinking About the Past…I expect most folks in reaching the age status of “elderly” (like me) think much more about their pasts than younger folks do. I think about the many precious memories with which God has blessed my life most abundantly. I think about the title of the popular TV drama, “Breaking Bad” (I only watched one episode – it didn’t strike me as spiritually beneficial), and rejoice that almost the entirety of my life has been characterized by “breaking good.” The fact that God has blessed both Theresa and me with long life (83rd and 84th birthdays upcoming in late October) and a long, wonderful marriage (61 years and counting) is far more than we could have imagined in our youth. Other than my near-death experience with cancer complications four years ago, we have enjoyed mostly good health. Those realities produce in me some mixed emotions. As our dear friends, Jim and Maureen McCartney, celebrated their very happy 43rd wedding anniversary, they also thought about their friends who had already lost their mates in death. Jim described his emotions as “Feeling the tension of gratitude and grief." I totally understand what Jim stated so well. Why have I been blessed so much as an individual and us as a couple when so many others have suffered pain that we have not? No answer, just that feeling of gratitude and grief. Life is a mystery in so many ways. Another part of looking back at my past falls into that grief category. The mistakes I made that affected only me I am okay with. My bad; consequences deserved. However, the mistakes I made that affected others are the ones that hurt most – by far. In thinking of those, I often feel and sometimes say aloud, “Too soon old and too late smart.” But I know that recounting regrets is not helpful to me or to others. It’s just hard to avoid. Last week my wife texted me something that helped, giving me a better way to process my past mistakes. Maybe it will help you too. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what only time could teach.” - Maya Angelou