Leadership

The Easter Illusion

Easter exposes the gap between attendance and belonging, between membership and engagement, between connection and discipleship.

Living and Leading Above the Warning Signs

We can’t lead well from last year’s spiritual fuel. We need a fresh touch from God today.

Seeking Humility

Biblical synonyms for pride include conceit, superiority, insolence, arrogance, boasting, contempt, wrongdoing and self-centeredness.

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.

Becoming a Leader With Substance

In a world that rewards appearances, the great challenge is to become a leader with substance who can demonstrate actual strength rather than just strain.

7 Ways to Overcome the Blindness That Comes With Familiarity

Seeing your church with new eyes

Jeff Simmons: Becoming Faithful Stewards

Becoming Faithful Stewards invites readers to consider generous giving; When people give money, they’re giving it to the Lord. We have to be good stewards of that.

10 Warning Signs of a Siloed Staff

Is your team really behaving like a team?

Who Are You Following?

Humility isn’t a skill, it’s a disposition of the heart, it’s a way of life. Who are you following? It’s not something you get better at, it’s a virtue you embrace.

Listening to the Younger Generation Leaving Church When They’re Done With God

Too many older believers have simply criticized their doubt and called them to “just believe,” overlooking the younger generation leaving church and the complex questions they bring.

Gandhi Leadership Lessons

American pulpits and some discipleship strategies have often reduced the magnificence of the gospel to simply to a trip to heaven when we die or only the forgiveness of sins. Gandhi leadership lessons remind us that the gospel is a royal announcement that Jesus of Nazareth is the true Lord of the universe who won a decisive victory over sin, death and the powers of darkness.