By Eddie Pipkin Discernment, as defined in its normal, non-church-related context, is about a display of judgment or taste. Take fashion, for instance. I have no fashion sense. No one has ever accused me of having style. My whole life, the only sartorial style with which I have ever been associated is a lack of [...]
By Eddie Pipkin I had a bizarre power outage in the house last week: one section of wall outlets went kaput without throwing any breakers. I couldn’t figure it out, and I was on the verge of calling the electrician and saying “so long” to a few hundred bucks, but first, I decided to google [...]
by Eddie Pipkin We have had a very full house for the past four weeks. Different sets of visitors have been congregating with us for days at a time on either end of that period, and in the middle, the newlyweds have been refugees crashing at our place because their AC went out in the [...]
by Eddie Pipkin I am itchy, and it’s my own dang fault. I am currently suffering from a wicked case of poison ivy. I was doing a good deed last Saturday, helping some older folks with yard work, when I realized there was poison ivy among the vines I was pulling from the fence. I [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Sometimes, you think something is obvious, but it turns out it’s only obvious to you. In day-to-day life, misplaced assumptions can be a minor stumbling block or a major source of humor and comeuppance (more on that in a bit), but in ministry, thinking that everybody knows something just because we know [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Last week I wrote about using the iconic biblical passage from Micah 6:8 as a guide for best management practices for leaders. This week we’ll expand on that idea by using the same Spirit-inspired directive to think about the influential community impact a local church can have if it pursues those inspiring [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Having written last week about the never-ending variety of leadership styles and management theories, I want to share a specific one this week. I was leading a discussion with my Tuesday morning Bible Study group, when we came across the iconic scripture from Micah 6:8: “He has shown you, O mortal, what [...]
by Eddie Pipkin If you want to manage better, lead better, coach better, there are no shortage of programs, gurus, “next big things,” or magic formulas for success. Take your pick of best sellers, TED Talks, management assessment tests, skills rubrics . . . leadership blogs (!). They all have something to offer. And there [...]
By Eddie Pipkin Recently I was gifted a revelation about a home maintenance problem that had hounded me for months. This minor glitch had been a headache small enough that I kept not putting in the effort to fix it, but regular enough to irritate me three or four times a week. It was one [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Last week I wrote about the Oscars, so this week it’s only fair that I give a shout-out to the recently-aired Grammys. For my wife and me, the Grammy Awards is our favorite televised awards celebration of the year. Known as “music’s biggest night,” it’s the annual celebration of popular music hosted [...]
