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.

Pivoting Your Church Budget

As we continue in this Ministry Pivots Series during this season of COVID-19, we have to look at how our ministry budgets need to...

12 Things the Analog Church Has Learned About Going Digital

COVID has been like a mission trip for the analog church. We thought we were going on a short-term trip to a place that felt...

3 Practices to Keep Your Brain Sharp

I have a passion for the brain and how applying newly discovered brain science can impact leadership and spiritual growth. I even wrote a...

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...