Better bandwidth for your faith!

by Stephan Joubert It’s a fact that the spiritual bandwidth of believers is narrow. The same old testimonies, sermons, books, conversations, outreaches, complaints and pains recycle throughout the church. Often when I’m speaking at a church and people ask me…

Contrarians… like Jesus!

by Stephan Joubert “The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground.” Steven B. Sample applies the term contrarian to depict effective leaders in his book on contemporary leadership: ‘The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership’ (2002). Without giving…

The new language(s) of Jesus

by Stephan Joubert Jesus walked and talked differently. As a matter of fact, his first language preceded syntax. More than often Jesus spoke without grammatical speech. The deepest meanings that he shared about God and others were embedded in “somatic”…