Hi, I’m Brandon
writer | speaker | consultant
I’ve spent my entire adult life encouraging people. Over the last two and a half decades, I’ve been a pastor, communications consultant, writer, and coach.
I believe your life matters more than you know and that you can make progress every day toward becoming your healthiest, holiest, happiest self without pretending to have life all figured out.
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The Reflectionary – April 28, 2022
Hi! Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Reflectionary! I've been working on this idea for over a year and have finally found the time to put it together....
What Good Friday Means to Me Now
On this Good Friday, I'm reflecting on the cross where Jesus died, and I'm re-reading a chapter in Brian Zahnd's Sinners In the Hands of a Loving God, about...
You Can’t Multi-Task, But Can You Multi-Career?
There are two schools of thought when it comes to the idea of whether you should focus your life on one single purpose and pathway, or get involved in all of...
How to Avoid Hitting People When You Feel Angry
Should you slap people when they make you mad? No. Granted, it happens sometimes. Sometimes it even happens on a stage on live television with millions of...
Going the Wrong Way On the Way to the Right Way
Nobody is better at speaking truth in love than my wife, Angie. She’s a skilled therapist, but goes easy on me as I try to swim to the depths with her when it...
How to Cultivate Authenticity In Your Leadership Culture
Be real with people, or be prepared to lose them. It's hard. As Pastor Rick Warren wrote once, we all fight against three particular fears: the fear that we...
5 Ways to Spend Your Leadership Equity Wisely
When you walk into a leadership opportunity, you go with a little bit of equity by virtue of your position and the inevitable honeymoon period during which...
The One Thing I Miss Most About Being a Pastor
There is a LOT that I miss about being a pastor. Like staff meetings. I miss teaching on Sundays, for sure. I definitely miss baptizing people. As awesome as...
My Favorite 2021 Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals
For Church Leaders Ariel Nieves' Ultimate Church Growth Bundle I trust Ariel! He's a friend and he's humble and relatable, but he's also very practical and...