Robert Noland – Page 41

Brothers in Arms

I had a very unique, amazing experience happen to me last week. I met a brother that I didn’t know I had, didn’t even know existed. Wild, huh? No, I didn’t meet a biological brother, but a spiritual brother. In fact, by the end of the week, I had met dozens of my brothers. Honestly, […]

Building Your Resume´

Job descriptions are very important to us as guys. We want the facts. Tell us what’s expected, so we don’t get surprised. Spell it out. Make it clear. When you take a realistic inventory of your life, you will probably find quite a few jobs . . . and they all come with descriptions . […]

The Turning Point

Like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston’s life, and now death, will be media-ized and scrutinized for a very long time. One of the major networks quickly put together a 3-minute montage of her history as an artist. It began with footage of her as a teenage Gospel singer. It ended with a video she did two […]

You Say You Want a Revolution?

Back when I was managing an organization, there was an employee who had been a faithful and loyal member of the team for many years. I began to notice some changes in attitude and behavior. I began to hear frustration on calls with customers, where for years customer service was this person’s strength. I knew […]

Chasing Celebrity

Working in entertainment management, one of the requests fielded fairly often regarding artists is people wanting “backstage passes.” It’s amazing how folks will work hard to prove some distant connection to an artist, hoping the evidence is awarded with a backstage pass. It’s kind of a one-night Golden Ticket, as if to communicate to all […]

Would You Follow You?

People follow leaders, right? When we call someone a leader, we are saying they lead others. But what about the leader? Is he following himself? How many times have we witnessed the moral failure of a Christian leader, not because he simply stopped leading, but because he wasn’t leading himself to the place he was […]

Storage Wars?

What’s the most lucrative thing you can do these days with a piece of commercial real estate inside a city limits? . . . Build storage units. Yeah, the most consistent money you can make on a piece of American property is to build small metal barns for people to put their stuff in. The […]

Free Prize Inside

Several years ago while I was pastoring, I created a simple resource designed to help someone spiritually evaluate the past year and set some basic goals for the new year. Just two pages of answering brief questions, so it’s not intimidating, nor should it take a lot of time. I have seen great value in […]

Finding Bigfoot, Following Jesus

Okay, confession time . . . my family and I have been watching “Finding Bigfoot” on Sunday nights on Animal Planet. Our new family phrase is “It’s looking pretty squatchy out here.” . . . Don’t click away. Hear me out. In every single episode, the BFRO (Big Foot Research Organization) travels the globe (where […]

Resolution Revolution

New Year’s always guarantees two things: unending weight loss ads and talk of resolutions. Not revolution, but resolution. Let’s think about the word “resolution” for a second. It has lost its original meaning and now has a connotation of how it sounds. Re-solution. A recycled solution. A solution that didn’t work before, maybe many times […]