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I once asked Kathy…“remember when we used to know people who traveled a lot, stayed in hotels, spoke in conferences and we imagined how glamorous it was?” We are sitting in the C concourse of Atlanta Hartsfield airport waiting on a connecting flight to Baltimore where Kathy is speaking in the Maryland ladies retreat [...]

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Our second edition of FORWARDLEADERSHIP podcast was posted today. You can hear it here. It is positioned on the front page or can be accessed in the BLOG.
Check it out and let me hear from you on what you think!

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I love to read and I read all kinds of books. My son Jeremy and I share a love of reading Grisham, Patterson, thrillers. Came across this book recently in Family Christian Bookstores and it is amazing reading…suspenseful with a moral theme. If you like political thrillers, you will love this book. It [...]

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As a boy, I recall that Easter meant a new suit of clothes, the egg hunt for kids and a lot of new excitement at our church. My parents went all out for Easter—making church fresh and working to engage our community in attending church. Easter was a significant day in our lives [...]

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I first met Kathy Lanier in 1977 when I preached for her father who was sick and I was the “featured” evangelist in the State Paper. None of us knew one another…but everything changed that day and now 30 years later we could not imagine how wonderfully God has blessed us. Today, she [...]

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Today, March 20th…the world got a little crazy! Just moments ago, we learned that Jason and Andrea will have our first granddaughter–Sadie Hope sometime mid-August. This is a significant moment in that our Isaacs family is dominated by male offspring. Though both my daughters-in-laws come from female majority families, so far we [...]

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I was amused to read Gordon MacDonald’s article in Christianity Today regarding the decision of Starbucks to close their stores for 3.5 hours of self-talk and retraining of workers. As you know, Starbucks has lost significant marketshare in the coffee business, in part because they began to invest themselves in things other than coffee! Gordon [...]

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Today is Thursday, March 13th but my heart is sitting on Thursday, March 20th when we will go with Jason and Andrea to the doctor for the chance to learn if my new grandchild is a GRANDson or a GRANDdaughter…either way the key word is GRAND
I never imagined I would be so emotionally “captured” by [...]

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Today I spoke from Judges 6 regarding the man Gideon called of God to deliver Israel from the Midianites. I was impressed with Gideon’s self-assessment which he felt would disqualify him from any notable achievement with God.
I’m from the last tribe in Israel (Manasseh)
I’m from the last family in our tribe
In other [...]

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