Reflection: Are You Partying at the Wrong Time?
If you are enjoying your holidays on a big cruise liner that safely glides over the calm sea, your focus is on fun, leisure time, drinking, partying and other kinds of pleasures. But if the ship is caught up in a deadly storm and is about to sink within an hour or two, your priorities change in a moment, dramatically. Instead of continuing to indulge in partying, fun and other leisure or entertainment activities, you are now investing all your strength in whatever is needed to save lives – your life, the lives of your family, and others around you. The urgency changes your priorities. The tragic truth is that so many of us are immersed into the pleasures of partying so much that we do not want to hear the storm raging and lightning striking all around us.
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Tihomir Kukolja, born in Slavonska Pozega, Croatia in 1954. Studied, lived and worked in Yugoslavia, Croatia, United Kingdom, Australia and the US. Educated in theology, communications, and radio journalism. Worked as a church pastor, radio producer and presenter, journalist, religious liberty activist, humanitarian, and reconciliation and leadership development activist. Lives in Baytown TX, USA. Currently serves as the Executive Director, Forum for Leadership and Reconciliation (Forum), and Director of Renewing Our Minds (ROM) initiative.
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Category Archives: Leadership
A Metaphor for the Hijacked Church
The newly elected Brazilian president Jair Messias Bolsonaro promised: “God above everything. There is no such thing as this secular state. The state is Christian and the minority will have to change, if they can. The minorities will have to adapt … Continue reading
Aren’t We in a Coma Already?
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Devouring Midterm Elections
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Jesus is Never About the National Prosperity Gospel
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Becoming Agents of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Tihomir Kukolja wrote this article for the October 2017 Forum for Leadership and Reconciliation Newsletter The 2017 Renewing Our Minds (ROM) leadership gathering held in Fuzine, Croatia this August brought together, a group of seventy young and seasoned leaders from … Continue reading
A Painful and Sobering Reflection
A slightly upgraded version of my message shared yesterday on my Facebook page. For more than fifteen years I have been privileged to lead a leadership development and reconciliation ministry that continues to teach the young leaders of the Balkans … Continue reading
Inappropriate Message from the President
I have been privileged to attend the National Prayer Breakfasts (NPB) in Washington DC almost every year since 2004. I was there too one week ago at the 65th annual National Prayer Breakfast. A number of people involved from the … Continue reading
The Night Jesus Wept
Yes, Jesus is the King! But this is not so because the choruses of Trump’s supporters are saying so as they are celebrating his presidential victory this morning. That “Jesus is the King” is even more true in the face … Continue reading
My Statement On the 2016 Election
I have been placed under much pressure and intimidation lately. This would happen every time when I shared a link on my Facebook page expressing a concern about the presidential fitness of Donald Trump. The same happened, even more forcefully, … Continue reading
Specks and Planks
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer The current US presidential race looks more like the gladiators’ game, … Continue reading
