by bradhuebert | Mar 22, 2012 | evaluation, vision
You may have noticed that I’ve been blogging less the past two or three weeks. That’s deliberate. I’ve purposefully stepped back from what felt like the perpetually eroding edge of expectations—an edge that demanded more than I could deliver, foisted...
by bradhuebert | Mar 9, 2012 | evaluation, Leadership, vision
I found a dead monkey in the church parking lot this morning. Poor little blighter was just lying there, flat as a pancake, eyes vacant, trying to smile, wondering why the little girl who made him dropped him in the snow and left him to his soggy fate. I picked up the...
by bradhuebert | Mar 5, 2012 | evaluation, Faith, vision
If I move this stuff along the garage wall, I can hang the ladder here instead of behind the van so it’s easier to get to when we need it. There’s something not quite right about the flow of my sermon. If I move this point here and drop that one, it moves...
by bradhuebert | Feb 27, 2012 | Faith, spiritual growth, struggles, vision
I’ll never forget that moment. I stood on a pebbled shoreline in my swim trunks, my toes drowning in two inches of water so cold, it burned. I’d taken a few guys rock climbing in the Canadian Shield, a topographical playground in North Eastern Ontario. The...
by bradhuebert | Feb 22, 2012 | Faith, spiritual growth, vision
“But he who would be born again indeed, Must wake his soul unnumbered times a day, And urge himself to life with holy greed; Now ope his bosom to the Wind’s free play; And now, with patience forceful, hard, lie still, Submiss and ready to the making will,...
by bradhuebert | Feb 7, 2012 | community, evaluation, Leadership, marriage, Ministry, parenting, vision
In their landmark book “Made To Stick” Chip and Dan Heath unpack what they call “the curse of knowledge.” It’s describes how knowing something causes us to forget what it felt like to not know it. You know? My kids display the curse of...
