Leadership

Derwin Gray: Choose Growth

Growing as a leader is not optional—it’s your responsibility. It’s your yes to the call God placed on your life.

Meet the Moment

If people lose courage in the face of pressure to compromise the Bible, it’s our job to help them stand firm.

Souls Settled, Hands Moving: Joy and Urgency in Following Jesus

Don’t just find joy in what God does through you. Find joy in what He’s done for you. Results may rise and fall. Attendance fluctuates. Seasons change.

When the Mental Load is Affecting Your Leadership

Toward the end of the day or a week when a leader has had to make too many decisions, he may find himself losing his cool more easily, flying off the handle, or saying thing things he shouldn’t.

7 Things Joyful Pastors Do

And how I try to practice their habits

Finding Clarity

“Activity is not the same as productivity. We need to figure out what the right things are.”

5 Ways to Build Character for Long-Term Leadership

How to go the distance as a leader without having a catastrophic moral failure.

7 Lessons Learned While Leading Change

It’s difficult to know the perfect time to make a change, but doing the right thing at the wrong time can end up being the wrong thing – no matter how much change is needed.

Don’t Carry the Weight of Ministry Alone

Addressing the chronic stress that is burning many pastors out

Colorful Compassion

What Jesus praised as the very paragon of love is compassion across boundaries of difference.

3 Keys to Any Successful Organization

One goal of a team could be to balance the strengths of the team members around each of these, so the team is always starting, maintaining, and finishing.