Leadership

Creating Great Church Guest First Impressions

How you treat people who are new to your church can be the difference between your church growing or getting stuck.

Why Leaders Lead With Prayer

Imagine attempting to lead without strength, without guidance, and without defense. Personally, I would consider it both terrifying and utterly futile.

12 Encouraging Bible Verses for Leaders

Leading isn’t easy. These 12 Bible verses offer strength, wisdom, and encouragement for leaders who want to stay grounded in faith.

How to Know When You’re Managing Instead of Leading

If you want to be a leader, you can’t focus more on managing the organization than you do on leading the organization forward.

What Not to Say When Talking About Prayer

God loves variety–in creation, in people, in churches, in his methodologies, in everything. He will not be confined to something we found works best for us.

How to Make Sure You’re Preaching to Everyone

7 tips for preaching to young, old and not-yet Christians

Lead With a Contagious, Refreshing Spirit

If someone feels like you like him or her, they’re more likely to respond positively to your leadership. If they don’t, and enough people feel the same way, your leadership will suffer.

Can I Trust You?

No matter what kind of situation I get called into as a leadership consultant, before very long we will be looking at some issue regarding trust that is at the center of the problem or opportunity people are facing.

How to Avoid the 5 Biggest Mistakes Pastors Make on Sundays

The things that keep us from being at our best when people need us

10 Tips on Getting to Know Your Community

Even if you disagree politically with the leaders, develop friendships with them; you need to know these influencers in your community. They can be reservoirs of information about past community struggles, current needs, and future plans.

Which Weekends Have the Lowest Attendance?

Hunting and fishing season can adversely affect church attendance. Deer season was mentioned most frequently.