The Ripple Effect of a Trustworthy Leader
Whatever that “best” might be, you trust the one who leads you in that direction.
Leadership
What Seminary Doesn’t Teach: Even After Seminary, I Was Ignorant About Ministry Life
What Seminary Doesn't Teach reveals why seminary alone cannot prepare you for ministry life.
Follow These Steps for Pastoral Retirement Planning
Retirement means many different paths to people. This guide centers on pastoral retirement planning for church leaders and helps address unique concerns.
Avoid These Threats to Your Church’s Organizational Health
When an organization gets too comfortable, threats to organizational health emerge—boredom, complacency, and indifference are common results.
A Better Conversation in Church
The guide for a better conversation in church: Unless we plan on uprooting the Spirit from our lives, we’d better plan on being gentle, loving, kind, and patient, and letting the political chips fall where they may.
How Much Shut-Eye Do You Get?
When we don’t get adequate sleep we can become more rigid in our thinking and less adaptable. Rigid thinking impairs good decision making.
Am I Cut Out for This? Leadership Insecurity
When leaders build internal legitimacy, their leadership insecurity rests on their sense of calling from God.
The Missing Ingredient in Church Leadership
What we’re overlooking in our conversations about leadership
20 Things I Learned From Attentive Church Leadership
"The well-defined leader continuously pursues internal alignment, embracing their true self before God. Attentive Church Leadership defines who they are more than the expectations of individuals or the apparent successes or failures of any organization." -Kevin Ford and Jim Singleton
What to Do When Your Sermon Falls Flat
7 tips for those weeks when you didn’t bring your best stuff