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Leonard Sweet

Why I do what I do

A couple of months ago I put this together from many, many sources (manuals, binders, and internal documents) for the staff I supervise.  It’s a manifesto of hope and it kind of explains why we do what we do at the Salvation Army in Saskatoon.  We have a lot of stuff that says what to [...]

Jesus Manifesto

Thomas Nelson is releasing a new book called Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. This book will be on special discount from Amazon.com on June 1st, the date of the release. I got to know Frank Viola a little bit at Soularize in the Bahamas [...]

9 Things I Learned in 2009: From Liquidity Crisis to Sovereign Debt Crisis

30 days after 9/11, I was in Seattle listening to Leonard Sweet talk at Soularize.  He was saying before others that 9/11 would change everything and he was right in many ways but I think people will look back at the credit meltdown in 2008 and the response of world governments in 2009 as a [...]

A Jesus Manifesto

Frank Viola and Leonard Sweet have published A Jesus Manifesto online.  It’s worth a read.

Stay Out! (but you can come back Sunday at 11)

Last year while I was running an errand, I drove by a church on 20th Street and noticed that it was surrounded by chain link fence in all directions.  The outside of the church was a mess and I assumed that they were renovating as the outside of the building needed repair.  Weeks later I [...]