Wallace B. Henley

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Wallace Henley is a former pastor, White House, and congressional aide. He served eighteen years as a teaching pastor at Houston's Second Baptist Church. Wallace, the author of more than twenty books, now does conferences on the church and culture, church growth and leadership. He is the founder of Belhaven University's Master of Ministry Leadership Degree.

His latest book, Who Will Rule the Coming ‘Gods’?, offers groundbreaking spiritual insight into emerging AI technologies.

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Jan 25, 2013
Five Stages of Leadership – Honing (Part 4)
His voice is raspy as a film noir mob boss, its message erudite as a polished scholar, and dynamism zesty as one of those TV product-pitchers who can persuade you to dial immediately for a combination carrot-dicer and log-splitter.
Jan 21, 2013
Five Stages of Leadership – Honesty (Part 3)
The lack of honesty following glaring humiliation brought on by dizzying hubris destroyed a President of the United States.
Jan 15, 2013
Five Stages of Leadership – Humiliation (Part 2)
One of the most important lessons President Barack Obama and his minions must learn as they bask in political success is that humiliation follows hubris – sometimes quickly.
Jan 11, 2013
Five Stages of Leadership – Hubris (Part 1)
And now, after the hand-wringing, the nail-biting, the promises and platitudes of the autumn election, we are in the winter of hubris. Hubris is the embrace of the seducer's line first uttered in Eden as the adversary tempted Eve to chomp down on the forbidden fruit.
Jan 3, 2013
Presidential Mandates and the Need for Push-Back
It should encourage no one – not even President Obama's supporters – that many of his partisans are encouraging him to see his re-election as a mandate. America's political landscape is littered with the wreckage wrought from Chief Executives, Democrat and Republican, who believed voters were giving them a license to govern like an autocrat.
Dec 24, 2012
The Sublime Logic of Christmas
Because God is love, it is logical that He would create beings with the capacity to respond to that love, beings in His own Image. Because God is love, it is logical He would provide a way for the reconciliation of His beloved to Himself.
Dec 18, 2012
The End Is Near: Terminal Hysteria or Blessed Hope?
It has begun – "it" being the end of the world. Of people, time, cluttered closets, the IRS, the fiscal cliff, final exams, leftover Thanksgiving turkey. The end of everything. Some interpretations of an old Mayan calendar seem to predict the finale of something or other on December 21. Is it a "baktun"-cycle that terminates, or the whole world?
Dec 7, 2012
Pearl Harbor: The Tale of the Sundays
"That night, there on my farm, God began to come into my heart," Fuchida later wrote. And what God starts, He completes. Mitsuo Fuchida, whose voice on December 7, 1941, shouted the attack code – "Tora! Tora! Tora!" – now, with the same voice, proclaimed the Gospel of Christ. Fuchida spent the rest of his life as an evangelist for Christ and His Kingdom.
Nov 28, 2012
The Loss of the Fourth Estate and the Threat to American Liberty
One of the most chilling realities of the contemporary age in the United States and other Western nations is the demise of the Fourth Estate. The death of a vigorous and free press came when mainstream media and other vital components of the information establishment became propaganda organs for the government.
Nov 14, 2012
The Need for Prophets More Than Prognosticators
The re-election of President Barack Obama shows we need the prophetic voice more than the shrill of the prognosticators.