In my book Author of Promotion I talk about the difference between great coaches and the others. While considering this for today's blog, I thought of one of my closest friends with whom I coached boys varsity basketball and girls varsity softball. By his record, my friend is one of the top coaches in Section 3, NYS . He is a great defensive coach and tactician. A man who knows a good idea when he hears one, Bill was always open to learn a nuance that would position our t

I'm violating my rule about not reading other books during the intense time of writing my own book. I've been reading Jamie Galloway's Secrets of the Seer. Let me just say this book is remarkable and I highly recommend it. Jamie opens with a story about the Galloway family on vacation and being present when a young boy drowns in a lazy river at their hotel. During the ordeal and driven by compassion, Jamie began praying "Do something God, do something". Then again "Do so

For the last three days I've offered vision for the bride for 2018. I've relayed the Fathers pleasure at our process of alignment; His offer for an increase in the pace of our maturity; and a challenge for leadership to remove residual character issues. Tomorrow will begin three days of areas of increase I see coming in 2018. As I look back at the last three days words, it occurs to me that during 2018 the bride will reconciling behavior with belief. We will be catching up

Have you ever heard the expression "fake it till you make it"? The idiom suggests that one will eventually become what they lack the ability to perform. That somehow if one can just pretend long enough, the stars will align properly, the moon will rise at the right time and suddenly as if by a miracle they will conform to that which is sought. The effect is the person artificially alters their personality in the hope of a permanent alteration into the desired outcome. Thi

Did you know that here in the northeast, it takes 80 to 100 years to grow a tree to ecological maturity? Yet as we travel south the time is progressively reduced to where it takes the same species of tree less than 40 years to mature in the Florida. The difference is length of growing season as affected by the climate. When it comes to a believer, our maturity is impacted by our climate as well. For day two of what I sense for 2018, I believe there is an invitation for an

I love the concept that you and I are on a continual path of alignment. This is in stark contrast to a life of constant re-alignment. One produces fruit, the other produces hopelessness if not addressed Alignment is a direction toward something, re-alignment is a direction back toward something. Alignment is our steady maturity. As Holy Spirit reveals truth, our understanding increases. We are, albeit sometimes imperceptively, aligning ourselves with that revealed truth