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How to Think, Dream and Lead like Jesus (part 3) To Timothy, my beloved son 2 Timothy 1:1 A tour de force through the last will and testament of an old leader to a younger oneEvery once in a while there are those who question: Why such an emphasis on leadership? It is, after all, […]

How to Think, Dream and Lead like Jesus (part 2)All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open […]

Remedythe cure for the commonHow to Think, Dream, and Lead like Jesus (part 1)Over the next several months, Leadership Rocks will embark on its fifth year of helping students experience the reality that Leadership Begins at the feet of Jesus. One of my favorite aspects of the preparatory stages is fleshing out the theme, rather […]

The man had a worldwide reputation and shook the streets of England for the glory of God. It is never healthy to emphasize one historical character too much, but it is hard to imagine our Christian heritage these last few hundred years absent of this spiritual giant. Dr. Lewis Drummond concluded this from Wesleys movement, […]

This past summer of Student Leadership University was amazing. Students from all over the country, at different places in their leadership development journey, continued to delve deeper into what it means to think, dream, and lead. One of the highlights of the summer for me was teaching on the life and leadership of John Wesley […]

The winner of the SLU 301 picture contest is, Mikaela Diel from Long Hollow Baptist Church. Heres her picture:11 People in a London Phone BoothYou can see all the pictures from the SLU 301 photo contest on ourfacebook page.

Few figures in American history cast a shadow as significant as Abraham Lincoln. Very few have faced as many obstacles or as much opposition as this humble man and yet he is considered by virtually everyone as Americas greatest President. I want us to take a few moments and not only ask ourselves if we […]

  Pat Williams is the senior vice president of the Orlando Magic. As one of Americas top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, he has addressed thousands of executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and national associations to universities andnon-profits. Pat is also the author of over fty books and hosts three weekly radio […]

I ran back to my hut to collect all my possessions: my food bowl, a pair of torn mittens inherited from a dead typhus patient, and a few scraps of paper covered with shorthand notes (on which, as I mentioned before, I had started to reconstruct the manuscript which I lost at Auschwitz). I made […]

During a recent SLU a young man gave me what I think was a great compliment, Your sessions this week have shown me that this isnt rocket surgery, even I can be a leader. Well, I had to agree it wasnt rocket surgery. In fact, Ive never heard the term, and I remember thinking that […]