Three Words You Must Learn When Mentoring Teens

Three Words You Must Learn When Mentoring Teens

I’ve been mentoring students for a long time, but there are three practices which are foundational to each mentoring relationship I enter into. These are the three legs to my mentoring stool, Listening, Opportunity, and Failure These three words make the...
Getting Failure Out Of Your System

Getting Failure Out Of Your System

“but the difference is whether you decide to stop at a failure, or keep going until you get as many failures as possible out of your system until the only possible outcome is that you succeed.” – Benny Lewis I know there are some who disagree with...
Four Questions You Should Ask A Racist

Four Questions You Should Ask A Racist

There are many in the KKK, White Aryan Nation, and other racist organizations who love to quote the Bible and espouse Christian principles but deny God’s Word entirely. As believers, it’s important to keep the conversation in spiritual terms because the...
My Three Most Important Mentoring Rules

My Three Most Important Mentoring Rules

“One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.” — John C. Maxwell This is a great definition of mentoring, and this kind of mentoring  has been a huge part of my...