Numbers 11:28-30  Leadership is all about learning. I strongly believe that no one is “born” a leader! A leader is developed over time. From struggles to stress to satisfaction, leaders become leaders through experience. I would even add that the greatest experience is failure. Yes! You heard me right.In the past three years, I have watched what some would call the “golden era” of Michigan footbal...  Read More

Main Point and Overview:   Effective leadership is found in a process. Leaders are not born; leaders are made! For the young protégé of Moses, nothing could be truer. Adrenaline and emotion will only take a person so far. When the pressures of our culture mount, decisive leadership grounded in both grace and truth is always needed! For Joshua, this meant learning from his mistakes. It’s been accur...  Read More

Prepare; verb, pre·pare, pri-ˈper 1) to make or get something or someone ready for something that will happen in the future 2) to expect that something will happen and to be ready for it.As a former coastal resident of Florida, preparing for hurricane season was vitally important. The goal was to be hurricane-ready by Memorial Day, but the procrastinating often hindered the progress, and the che...  Read More

As I come into the church each day this week, I am reminded that it has been one year since the church voted me in to be the Grand Blanc Campus Director. There were many hours of prayer and conversations with Sarah, family members, and mentors to see if this was the plan God had for the Robertson household, and leaving what seemed to be a career job with endless amounts of promotions or to go into...  Read More

There is a cost to everything that we do. Every choice or decision we make is a choice to choose one thing over another. I choose to love pizza and Taco Bell too much and eat them too often. Because of this, I am not in as good of shape as I probably could be. That is a choice that I have made that has a cost to it. The cost of being in great shape but living without pizza is too great of a cost t...  Read More

Wow, Mary used a perfume that costs a year’s wage! She really pulled out all the stops because of who Jesus is. Nowadays we don’t use perfume to honor those who deserve honor, but think through this, if Jesus were to come into town, what would you do if you were pulling out all the stops? Me? I would get 50-yard line tickets for the Detroit Lions, and then take him to a great restaurant like Texas...  Read More