Resources
Writing from the Centurion room.
Essays, conversations, and field language for leaders carrying identity, authority, brand, platform, and legacy work.
Squirrel hunting and OS stories
My eight-year-old son Henry isn't a big fan of church. It feels too crowded and pushy and like he'll get ambushed. He loves road trips and oceans where he can see vast...
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More from the field.
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He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
The thing about being a king – or a business owner, or a leader of people – is that the perks and prerogatives make it easy to feel like you're doing okay even when...
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Meet Chris Byers
Chris Byers spent 14 years as CEO at Formstack. I've known him as a friend, a client, a sounding board, a church planter/missionary, and someone on a living adventure...
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Meet Traci Cheatham
Traci Cheatham is the founder of B23Strategies.com and is an expert on making businesses more successful by making the managerial layer healthier. In our conversation, we...
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Meet Bill McKendry
Bill McKendry created the He Gets Us campaign, wrote the book that sparked the Do More Good movement, and founded the marketing agency BrandHaven.com. In our...
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Meet Todd Larson
Todd Larson is a financial advisor with multiple offices across the United States. He is also one of the original architects of the Christian Financial Advisors Network...
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Meet Danish Peter
Danish Peter leads Grace Network, which offers 24 7 Christian television programming in Pakistan, as well as large evangelistic events and a vast assortment of practical...
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Meet Ben Johnston
Ben Johnston is the third-generation leader of Pittsburg Tank and Tower Group in Henderson, Kentucky. He has paid more at a heart level for the peace and leadership role...
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Meet Pete Gall
Pete Gall is into weird God adventures, the fire of his beautiful wife, and being the king of carpools and kayaks to his daughter and son. On off days, you'll find him...
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Centurion Word 9: Blessing
The key to a powerful punch is the plant foot from which a person drives force through their body to the punch itself. Similarly, the power to bless is born from the...
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Centurion Word 8: Constraint
Proverbs 29:18 says that where there is no revelation/vision, the people cast off constraints and do what is right in their own eyes. For the centurion, the inverse is...
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Centurion Word 7: Vision
Your vision is your description of the place or condition to which you've been called by God. Casting vision is inviting people to the place or condition to which you're...
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King Math
Several years ago, I named the nonprofit donor retention platform Bloomerang, and then I spent a couple of years working with leaders from the company and from...
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Meet Todd DeKruyter
Todd DeKruyter leads C12 in Indianapolis, grew up in a centurion family, wrote Navigating Life with More Than Enough, and is an all-too-rare servant and protector of...
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Centurion Word 6: Testimony
Testimony might be the rustiest, most neglected spiritual weapon in the Kingdom. It's treated like a pre-packaged sales pitch that focuses on specific moments and...
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Centurion Word 5: Tab
Who will pick up the tab? It's usually the one in the authority position … if people get to project their daddy issues onto you, you're the dad, and that means you're the...
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Centurion Word 4: Prevenience
Prevenient grace is the way God draws a person into relationship before the person has invited the relationship or God's touch. Prevenient means preceding. Picture a...
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Centurion Word 3: Parish
Parish is another word for a minister's territory. Anyone or anything going on within the parish falls under the calling and blessing of the parish priest. Compare this...
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Centurion Word 2: King
There is a difference between a King and a Priest. A king is called to lead, grow, protect, plan, defend, and hold space for the people. A priest is called to worship,...
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Centurion Word 1: Centurion
The first word in our collection of critical words for centurions is: centurion. We take the term from the New Testament book of Matthew. And in the case of our business,...