How to Identify and Handle a People Problem
You improve people problems by improving people.
Leadership
E Pluribus Unum? Racial Reconciliation in the Church
God delights in our diversity and calls us to pursue racial reconciliation wherever needed.
You Can 94t Please Everyone (and Shouldn 92t) -> You Can 94t Please Everyone
Learning to balance the natural tension of loving and caring for people, you can't please everyone, but not allowing someone to leverage their personal agenda or hijack the vision of your church is part of the leader 92s responsibility.
An Atheist’s Take on the Decline of Christianity
Strange that a famed atheist bemoans the Decline of Christianity and what it has meant for culture and community.
Silencing Antagonists
Skillful leaders understand that silencing antagonists requires compassion toward people who, perhaps due to past hurts, live angry, defensive lives.
Resilience After Adversity: Bouncing Back From Adversity and Failure
Sometimes, we wallow in our failure or rejection in an effort to understand it. But often, it’s just a matter of timing, chemistry, or circumstance. Resilience after adversity comes from learning to bounce back.
Rise of the Nones in America: They Simply Stopped Believing
In the rise of the nones, Only 3% of Americans who grew up in a religiously unaffiliated home said they joined a religion.
Roots Before Fruit
“Our identity as daughters and sons is more important than our impact as leaders.”
After Easter, Now What?
The season after Easter is a great time to launch a new small group series or a new Bible study plan, and of course, to launch an outreach project for the church to join and make a major impact.
John Currie: Leadership Flows From Preaching
The fundamental commitment for a pastor is to be an expositor of the Word of God. Their job is not to put their own agenda into the Word.
