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Wanted
“Tom, you’re not useless. We can always use you as a bad example.” Have you ever seen a want add for a bad example?—————HELP WANTEDBadly flawed, underqualified, low-motivated, mid-level manager to take responsibility for counter-intuitive training and institutionalized scape-goating for… Continue reading
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Throw out the Idols
In a World of Manure, You Might as Well Make Fertilizer Setting the Agenda: Reflections on Jeremiah 10:1–16 Part of the problem we have is an agenda — who sets the agenda, and how we live with the agenda we’ve chosen. I think… Continue reading
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Balm
It’s The Balm by Tom Sims Read on Substack https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js Continue reading
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Checklists on the Path of Acting the Way We Ought
I have two thoughts on behavioral checklists. One is about how central they were to the Wesleyan revival and the Holy Club at Oxford. The list was long and the accountability strong and it resulted in Methodism. The other was… Continue reading
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You Actually Need to Consider These
Stuff I Think You Need Because it burned a whole in my soul First, God speaks: Exodus 23:1-9 “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness. You shall not… Continue reading
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Eye-Opening Is Dangerous
“One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.” — Exodus 2:11 It was a day of awakening for Moses. It… Continue reading
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Four Precious Girls
I am consumed by this tonight and often, Our legacy is what it is. It never benefits us or anyone else to forget it or sweep it under the rug. There were four precious little girls who came to church… Continue reading
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So, You Think This Is Hot?
So, You Think This Is Hot! But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,… Continue reading
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Empathy and Leadership
Why Empathy is Hard and Necessary in Leadership We all have different pain triggers and responses, physically and emotionally. But the universal truth is that we all experience pain. Is this a leadership concern? Does this enter into our business… Continue reading
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Just Thinking
I felt the need to think out loud and here are the results. Am I locked into this forever? Of course not. However, it is on my mind, has been, and will be. Third Party Summary of Zoom MeetingSun, Sep… Continue reading
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