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While teaching at Salisbury University this semester, several of the students in my Leadership Studies course have worked feverishly to make the case that podcasts are boring and should be disregarded as a legitimate medium for conveying information across the world wide web. Normally, I would listen intently and take notes as this demographic of […]

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Clarity in identity and vision is the emphasis for the third episode of the Messy Leadership Podcast. And the story of Beryl Markham’s 21 hours and 25 minutes of continuous, solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in September of 1936 is the story to help us bring clarity into focus. In the first two episodes of […]

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In the second episode of the Messy Leadership Podcast, we will explore the importance of VULNERABILITY. There is no way around it… if we desire to be effective leaders, the prevailing leadership research shows that messy leaders must embody something that none of us really wants to talk about, much less display in our lives […]

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In the first episode of the Messy Leadership Podcast, I decided that it was important for us to focus on a subject that impacts each of us holistically:: WORLDVIEW. If I asked you to describe your WORLDVIEW… what words would you use to explain the way you interpret the world around you? Would you use […]

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Welcome to Messy Leadership:: A podcast for ultraordinary leaders in the midst of the mess. If you have followed much of my writing, teaching, or public speaking over the past decade, you have likely heard me discuss my affinity for the “messyness” of life. The year 2016 did not dispel my view on the messyness […]

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The Scriptures teach that when followers of King Jesus die our soul is present with him. We don’t get wings, and we don’t become angels. We are no longer messy and broken and stained. When we die, we don’t need bags of medicine to fight an invasion of cancerous death. The Scriptures teach that when […]

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This morning, at 12:54am, my father moved into eternity. The life he lived, was lived unto God. The legacy he left, lives on in me (and many others who were influenced by his life). After his diagnosis, Dad battled multiple myeloma with courage to his very last breath. Because of this, Dad has chosen to […]

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Remember that scene from Home Alone (the first one) where the whole family is rushing through the airport to make their flight on time? The family running in panic through the terminal… The bags and children being dragged along… The yelling and chaos… The John Williams double-time score speeding things along… Well, that’s what I imagined my […]

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Immigration is both global and local, and it must be engaged at the most fundamental human level:: in our own neighborhoods. There is no country in the world untouched by the impact of immigration. According to Daniel Groody, roughly 214 million people throughout the world are now living away from their homeland. This number translates […]

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 Remedy Church is excited to announce that we are multiplying to plant Iglesia Remedy in Downtown Salisbury on April 3rd of 2016! Iglesia Remedy is launching with a blended model as a multi-site church campus, and a new church plant. Iglesia Remedy is a multi-site work as an extension of the Go.Be.Do. mission of Remedy […]

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