Leadership

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.

The Spiritual Longings of Young Adults

Young adults want both—an encounter with the Spirit of the Living God and messages rooted in God’s timeless Word.

5 Reasons This Season Is a Window of Opportunity for the Church

As congregations return methodically to in-person services, something else will be taking place. It will be obvious to some churches; it will be more...

Essential Characteristics of Merger-Friendly Pastors

What you need in order to ease the pain of transition.

How to Find Rest in Restless Times

I’ve been thinking about confessions lately. Augustine’s Confessions in particular. I even quoted The City of God in my Sunday message—I felt quite scholarly...

10 Things Great Leaders Do

Leadership is more important now than ever. In fact, good leadership is essential if we hope to make progress toward a better future. In well over...

Pivot the Way You Connect With Your People

Prior to COVID-19, we could connect with those in our congregation and communities almost whenever we wanted. We could have lunch with them, meet...

Defining Reality and Inspiring Hope During the Pandemic

Several of the most famous quotes about leadership point to the paradox of embracing the challenge of the season and giving vision and hope...

How Can We Help Others Uncover Their Spiritual Gifts?

The more we pastors help people discover, develop and deploy their spiritual gifts, the healthier our churches become. In this post I suggest six...

21 Great Practices You’ll Never Regret Adopting

You probably already have some regrets as a leader. I know I do. Not only as a leader, but as a husband, dad and friend too....