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.

Auditing Your Various Ministries Going Forward

We cannot eliminate uncertainty. In this season of ministry, we can only address what is known. When it comes to the number of volunteers...

Pivot Your Church Calendar Planning

For many churches, planning for the year is a big deal and requires a lot of time plus energy. If you or your church...

What’s Next for the Church as Attendance Declines?

As you know, long before COVID, it was already difficult to get people to attend weekend church services. Travel sports, weekends away, the death of...

4 Ways to Keep Your Emotions In Check as a Leader

One of the greatest strengths a leader can posses is his (or her) ability keep his emotions in check, to stop reacting. However, when...

Avoiding the Comparison Trap

It is hard to lead a small church or a young church. Perhaps it is even more challenging today than it once was. Church...

How to Raise Up Women Leaders

Raising up women leaders should matter to all of us, but it requires an oft-lacking intentionality. Women make up more than half the church, and...

What the Working From Home Trend Could Mean for Your Ministry

When the pandemic went into full swing and the lockdowns began, I was working with a ministry client who also owned a successful business....

12 Practices That Have Made Me a Better Preacher

I don’t claim to be a great preacher, but I love to study and proclaim the Word. Below are some things—some that may be...