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Making Decisions that Won’t Make Your Kids Crazy

March 18, 2016 By drairwolf Leave a Comment

How does your family make decisions? I’m talking about things like: what kids should wear to school, eat for breakfast,  haircut to get, sport to play, what the family will eat for dinner,  do on the weekend, and do with their free time? Families make a lot of decisions. One study on leadership determined there are 4 main […]

Filed Under: blog, Leadership, Parenting, personality Tagged With: autocratic, consensus, consultive, decision-making, democratic, family, leadership, leadership style, parenting funnel

How Parents Lead (Part 2)

March 7, 2016 By drairwolf Leave a Comment

As a parent, how would you describe your leadership style? I believe parents often downplay their role as a leader in their children’s lives. But, if leadership is influencing others in a particular direction, in order to achieve a particular goal, then there are few things more leader-worthy than parenting. If you are a parent, then you are […]

Filed Under: blog, Parenting, personality Tagged With: blanchard, leadership style, parenting style, situational leadership, sl2

How to Discover Your Story

May 12, 2015 By drairwolf Leave a Comment

When I was in grad school one of my classes had us do this exercise. I found it so helpful and insightful that I thought I’d share. First take a piece and draw a large rectangle, covering most of the page. On the left side write, “born”, and on the right side write, “now”. Then […]

Filed Under: blog, church, discipleship, Leadership, Life, personality, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: exercise, my story, story

Dear Younger David #1

May 7, 2015 By drairwolf Leave a Comment

My First Entry I’ve been journaling almost everyday ever since I was in tenth grade. What you’re about to read is part of my first official journal entry from 10th grade!  I recently starting reading back through my journals and found there are many things I wish I could have told myself back then. So, […]

Filed Under: blog, discipleship, humor, Life, personality, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: childhood, growing up, journaling, memory

When Your Counselor Calls You Intense

December 23, 2014 By drairwolf 2 Comments

The Session I’ve seen a counselor on and off for years and every once in a while something really hits home. My last session was one of those times. My counselor asked, “Have you ever thought about how you come across as intense?” I nervously laughed for a minute, but inside my head it was […]

Filed Under: blog, church, Leadership, Life, personality, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: christian, counseling, forgive, forgiveness, health, insight, intense, Jesus, Passion, psychology, religion, restore

How Leading a Team is a Lot Like Cross-Country

December 17, 2014 By drairwolf 2 Comments

I was never very good at cross-country in high school. Any time my picture was taken during a race, I looked like I was passing a kidney stone or had been kicked in the face repeatedly. I may never have won a race, but did learn a thing or two about running one. In any race, […]

Filed Under: blog, church, discipleship, Leadership, personality, Service, Small Group, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: bible, christianity, Jesus, ministry, rest, spiritual discipline, team, team building, Training

Video: “The Office” Small Group

June 13, 2014 By drairwolf Leave a Comment

Every group has a few “personalities”. This group has a few more than normal. If you’ve seen “The Office”, you’ll better appreciate where this parody is coming from.   Here’s a few videos from the original “The Office”. Also check out these posted videos about groups: Shallow Small Group What if Darth Vader Joined Your […]

Filed Under: blog, humor, personality, Small Group, video Tagged With: The Office, The Office Small Group

Emotional Bank Accounts Changed My Life: Part 2 (Ministry)

June 5, 2014 By drairwolf 1 Comment

Seriously, when you start thinking about the emotional bank account concept – it changes everything! I’d like to connect the dots and share how understanding this concept can influence a few specific areas of your life- I’ll start with ministry. How the Emotional Bank Account Affects Ministry: I would say that almost 80% of my job […]

Filed Under: blog, church, discipleship, Leadership, personality, Small Group, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: ministry, psychology

Emotional Bank Accounts Changed My Life: Part 1

June 3, 2014 By drairwolf 3 Comments

Has anyone asked you for a favor and everything inside screams, “NOOoo!”  Sometimes you ignore that and still say yes, but it almost makes you feel sick to your stomach (It’s a struggle). I’ve thought a lot over the past few years about how this situation happens and tried to figure out how to prevent […]

Filed Under: blog, church, discipleship, Groups, Leadership, Life, personality, Service, Small Group, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: Covey, emotional bank account, Stephen Covey

Top 10 Teams on T.V.

April 18, 2014 By drairwolf Leave a Comment

For any group to reach its potential, a leader has to understand his strengths and weaknesses. He also has to value the strengths and weaknesses of those on his team. For example, I was just playing t-ball with my sons and we lost a ball in the neighbors yard. I could figure out how a […]

Filed Under: blog, Groups, humor, Leadership, personality, Small Group Tagged With: a-team, avengers, care bears, fellowship of the ring, funny, g.i. joe, ghostbusters, humor, jla, lone survivor, navy, ninja turtles, small group, star wards, teams, the walking dead

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