Yesterday was overload. Failure is the resonance that allows connection. - Dave Gibbons My heart is so full today, so challenged, so humbled. Leadership is profound. To answer the call of God, to step out into an unknown reality, to accept the uncertainty because of faith in Him. Yesterday was a parade of men who …
“Normal has left the building” – Summit Day 1
Meaning of Life 1.3 next week. There's just too much good at Willow Creek's Leadership Summit to not share. "Normal has left the building." Bill Hybels, long-time visionary and leader of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, always starts things off with the first session, and he usually knocks it out of the …
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At the Summit
Taking a couple of days off from blogging about the meaning of life. I'll come back to it this weekend, but today I'm headed with about 25 people from the Northwest Church to Westminster Chapel over in Bellevue for the Willow Creek Leadership Summit. I'm excited. It will be a shot in the arm I …
Meaning of Life 1.2 – God Makes
Why bother? The Eternal Community of Love and Communication (see yesterday's post) had a good thing going. Why bother to risk mucking it all up? Scripture doesn't tell us God's motives for making. Scripture also tells us that God's ways are not like our ways, that as the heavens are high above the earth, so …
Meaning of Life 1.1 – The Glory Before the Beginning
God is love. I don't remember who first introduced me to the idea of the Triune Community of Love and Communication that existed before the beginning (biblically speaking), but it was probably Francis Schaeffer. But I also remember John Ortberg teaching about this at Willow several years ago. Of course, any real knowledge of this …
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JEFF BERRYMAN 