The Oregon Ducks football team is a big deal around here. Kind of sad to me how over the summer they made more news than any team for off the field arrests and suspensions. All that gets forgotten far too quickly once they start winning. You should have heard the scream when I asked the [...]

Rose and I went to a Twins/Mariners game a couple months back. It was the first professional baseball game she had ever been too. In the middle of the 7th inning everyone stood up and started singing along to a song she had never heard in her life. It was quite humorous seeing how confused [...]

Part One: Entitlement and Trust Part Two: Servanthood Part Three: Promotion Part Four (Today): Reward This will be the last post in this short series on the type of leader we need today. A lot of conferences and books focus on the type of leader people want to see today, but what we need is [...]

Josh Hamilton has been the story in the sports world recently. Here’s a post I wrote over 2 years about his incredible story of grace and redemption. Boy was it fun watching ARod strike out to send the Rangers to the World Series. If only that could have happened with my Twins. I turned 26 [...]

Part One: Entitlement and Trust Part Two: Servanthood Part Three: Promotion I spend a lot of my energy promoting my favorite teams. The Twins, the Vikings, the TWolves (not much to promote there these days), the Huskers, the Blue Devils. I’m real good at throwing in a little trash talk to a conversation. In many [...]

Part One: Entitlement and Trust Part Two (Today): Servanthood We see how servant leaders lead by sacrificing their desires, by giving up the entitlement they often deserve, and by establishing trust with those they are serving. But, the first step needed in this process is becoming a servant leader. This is an especially poignant question [...]