Mentors Embody the Christian Life
When something is hard to understand, incredibly complex, high powered with high potential, it usually takes an example or application or utility for it to be understood. When the guys at Bell Labs invented the…
The Mentoring Manifesto, Vol. 73: The Identity Equation
Time Management + Money Management + Image Management = Identity How we manage our time, money, and image is a good indicator of what matters most to us. If we want to get to know…
The Best Mentors Are Tour Guides not Travel Agents
Many of us probably have experience with both travel agents and tour guides, but have you ever considered the differences between the two… The Travel Agent – Sits behind a desk and provides recommendations, shares…
The Mentoring Manifesto, Vol. 72: The Meaning of Marriage
As many people mourn the death of Tim Keller, I wanted to share five of the most challenging and meaningful insights I took from his book, The Meaning of Marriage, co-written with his wife, Kathy. Together…
How to Manage Your Mentoring Meetings
In the middle of your mentoring meeting, you look down at your watch, and it reads ten minutes until 9:00pm. But you look at your Meeting Guide, and it says it should be 8:20pm. How…
The Mentoring Manifesto, Vol. 71: Modeling Leadership for Our Mentees
So much of what we call leadership today is really just management, moving tangible resources around to accomplish things. But leadership is more than that. It’s about helping people find their desires and aligning them….
Five Things to Think About When Launching Radical Mentoring
After years of guiding mentors and churches through the process of launching Radical Mentoring groups, I feel like I’ve seen it all. I’ve seen Radical Mentoring work in churches of all shapes and sizes. I’ve…
The Mentoring Manifesto, Vol. 70: Highlighting the Bible In Your Mentoring Group
The numbers don’t lie, biblical illiteracy is high. According to the American Bible Society’s 2022 State of the Bible report… “Nearly 26 million Americans reduced or stopped their interaction with Scripture in the past year.” “Beginning…
Spiritual Maturity is Essential to Mentoring (And Six Attributes That Define It).
The basic premise of mentoring is to show mentees not just how to do something but also how to be something. Hopefully, during the mentoring season, mentees will have seen some of Jesus in their…
The Mentoring Manifesto, Vol. 69: Why Identity Matters
Why do we care so much about identity? Because we don’t know who we are, and we want someone with credibility to tell us. Beginning in early childhood, our parents start to ascribe our identity….
