Leadership

Clean Your Bookshelves and Your Soul

Don’t let the comfort of familiar pain prevent you from embracing the unknown discomfort of positive change.

15 New Year’s Resolutions Straight Out of Scripture

What would a set of New Year’s resolutions look like for you and your church, your role as a leader, or simply as someone who wants to live a life of strategic kingdom investment? And specifically, what if they came from the Bible?

Perfectly Imperfect Churches

Most of the great breakthroughs and innovative ideas are a result of problems being viewed not as a problem to solve, but an opportunity to make things better.

Leadership Lessons from Charles Stanley

Millions of people around the world were impacted by Dr. Stanley and learned from him over the course of his 60-plus years of ministry. We learned through his preaching and teaching.

Signs That You’re Difficult to Work With

Being self-aware matters. We don’t have to be hyper-sensitive and obsess over our lapses (I certainly don’t).

How to Wound Your Pastor

A number of pastors said that they get complaints about something they did or did not do, and they have no idea when or if this alleged offense took place.

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.