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Why I am thankful for Ellen DeGeneres

7/18/2017

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By Brad Lindemann, published July 18, 2017
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Brad Lindemann is the founder, president and CEO of APmbassador Solutions. AmbassadorSolutions.com
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I saw this video of Ellen receiving her much deserved Medal of Freedom Award just before heading out to pick up our pasta-to-go from the neighborhood pizzeria. I’ve always admired Ellen, but upon watching this I was overwhelmed with what can only be described as love for her. Yes America, I love Ellen DeGeneres. And, I’m very thankful that God chose to weave her so warmly and winsomely into the tapestry of 21st century America. We are a better nation for it, as was so eloquently stated at the awards ceremony:

“Again and again, Ellen DeGeneres has shown that a single individual can make the world a more fun, more open, more loving place, so long as we just keep swimming.”

Though we’ve never met, I would jump at the opportunity to meet Ellen. And no doubt, I would be as overwhelmed by that moment, as she was by the moment when President Obama so genuinely honored her. It really shouldn’t matter that I’m 60 years old, white, Christian, conservative, pro-life and straight…but apparently it does to some. It should come as no surprise to anyone that I love my incredibly brilliant gay sister and awesome transgender niece unconditionally, though some think I deserve a merit badge for feeling such love. Others think I should be cast into the outer darkness, never to be heard from again. How screwed up is that? Such love comes as naturally as my next breath, deserving of neither a badge nor demonization. It’s just what love does, as renown author and global love trotter, Bob Goff, explains in his incredible book appropriately titled, Love Does.

Why I'm Thankful For Ellen DeGeneres

As I entered the restaurant to pick up our order, I came upon a large family saying their good-byes and blocking my way to the cash register. The matriarch was hugging everyone as they got up from the table. As she turned around to face me, I asked what in the moment seemed like a perfectly appropriate and obvious question –“can I have a hug?” Without hesitation, she very graciously obliged. After all, that’s what love does, doesn’t it?

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Exploring what it means to be conservative

7/15/2017

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by Curt Smith for the Indianapolis Business Journal print and online versions on July 15, 2017
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Smith is president of the Indiana Family Institute and author of “Deicide: Why Eliminating The Deity is Destroying America.” To book Curt for a speaking engagement, click here
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​Are Indiana conservatives in need of a rebuild, reform or perhaps just rebranding? That is the topic we’ll take up in late August at the first-ever, Indiana-centered policy conference, hosted by the Indiana Family Institute’s Andrew Smith Family Prosperity Center and featuring leading conservative voices in the Hoosier state.

Our aim is to convene the brightest minds in politics and thought to come together to cast a vision for the conservative movement in Indiana. In addition to IFI, U.S. Rep. Jim Banks and Americans for Prosperity are co-sponsoring the gathering at the Keystone Crossing Sheraton Hotel on Aug. 26.

​Modeled after the highly successful and widely publicized CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) held annually in Washington, D.C., ICON (Indiana Conservative) brings timely and relevant conversation about the implications of policy on our worldview—and vice-versa—to the Hoosier state.
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Anticipated as one of the largest gatherings of conservatives in state history, activists, academics, elected officials, social media mavens, philanthropists and other engaged citizens will gather to share ideas about government and society.


The agenda is still being shaped at this writing, but invited guests include Vice President Mike Pence (whose departure from Indiana, in part, prompts the need for this gathering); U.S. Sens. Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Tim Scott and James Lankford; U.S. Reps. Louie Gohmert and Marsha Blackburn; Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson; Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin; Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill and many more.


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Getting the Right People on the Bus. Even God had to Adjust.

7/6/2017

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​One of my favorite quotes is from Jim Collins in the book “Good to Great.” Jim says “Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.”  I love this statement and have used it over and over in many presentations and discussions. 

I am sure this is not original, but this connection came to me:  God has a Bus and this theory is exactly what He did. In the Old Testament, God led the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and made a promise to lead them to a land flowing with “milk and honey.” The Bus was leaving Egypt and headed to the Promised Land.

DON'T BE AFRAID TO STOP AND EVALUATE. A trip that should have taken days took forty years! Along the way God realized He had a bunch of crybabies on board that didn’t see the vision for the promise. What did He do? He STOPPED the bus! That’s right. All the people that bought into the vision, were freed from slavery, but then blew the opportunity of a lifetime. All this to say – God had the right people on the bus and they turned into the wrong people, so He stopped and let them off and then got the right people in the right seats.
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The lesson here: Don’t be afraid to stop the bus, or rearrange the seating to make your organization better . Take if from Jim or take if from God, having the right people on the bus is key to success.

Wesley Middleton is the managing partner at MRZ LLP, a Houston, Texas-based accounting firm voted Best Place to Work by the Houston Business Journal. Wesley is the author of Violent Leadership (Forbes Books, 2017) and is represented by PumpJack Speakers Bureau. To book Wesley for your event, email Wesley.Middleton@PumpJack.me or click here.
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Citizenship Sunday

7/2/2017

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Curt Smith guest preached at First Assembly of God in Fort Wayne, Indiana on a biblical perspective regarding responsibility and opportunity to be both citizens of heaven and citizens on earth.

Deicide from First Assembly of God on Vimeo.

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