Serve to succeed
Build capacity for personal growth
Based on my book Your Unfinished Business: Find God in Your Circumstances - Serve Others in Theirs. The number one question is how to integrate faith and ideals into daily living. Our unfinished business too often seems a matter of figuring out what to do with our lives when it should be about making real what we know our focus to be. Becoming servants is how we can get from one to the other and these keynotes and workshops equip participants to do that (scroll down to see some things I've developed)
 | Serve to succeed How can we develop the servant's heart that turns our circumstances into a calling to invest ourselves in the well-being of others? Leroy Hurt discovered the secret in his mother’s experiences. Widowed in the Philippines during World War Two when enemy occupation forces executed her first husband, she later left a successful dental practice to raise a child with Down Syndrome and then cared for her second husband through ten years of debilitating and terminal illness. She had unfinished business because a servant’s work is never done. Learn how to apply the SPINE and SERVE models so you too can take up your unfinished business. |
 | Stewardship is preparation for ownership This component of servanthood how you gain a return for the master you serve. So why does the Bible call us stewards and servants at the same time it calls us heirs and partners? It's because we're being groomed to take over the family business. Learn how to apply the UPWARD process to your own growth. |
 | Journal to journey
Use your prayer journal to turn your prayer life into a life of prayer. Prayer is the key to staying on track in your pursuit of your unfinished business. Martin Luther is supposed to have said, “I have so much to do today, I will start it with prayer.” Your prayer journal can be the engine for spiritual growth, but you need a systematic approach so you can make it an effective part of your daily disciplines. |
 | The message of Handel’s Messiah
Handel’s great oratorio is one of history’s greatest examples of the stewardship of one’s talents. Interpreting the Gospel through its music and words, Messiah is really a commentary on servanthood through the medium of music by society’s outsiders for society’s outsiders. Use this workshop to learn how beauty points people to truth so it can take root and produce hope. Along the way, learn the answers to these questions as well: You mean Handel didn’t write the words? Why is it performed at Christmas? Why isn’t the Hallelujah chorus at the end? Why do we stand during the Hallelujah chorus? |