Leadership

Creating Great Church Guest First Impressions

How you treat people who are new to your church can be the difference between your church growing or getting stuck.

Why Leaders Lead With Prayer

Imagine attempting to lead without strength, without guidance, and without defense. Personally, I would consider it both terrifying and utterly futile.

12 Encouraging Bible Verses for Leaders

Leading isn’t easy. These 12 Bible verses offer strength, wisdom, and encouragement for leaders who want to stay grounded in faith.

Why Healthy Churches Are Messy

Why do some healthy churches look unhealthy from the outside?

Reaching Smallville: What Happens When Rural Pastors Band Together

Jesus cares deeply about small towns and small communities and places that no one’s ever heard of before.

Leaders, Stop Walking on Eggshells

I’m not advocating that leaders be jerks, and there are times to be sensitive to the people around you, but I am advocating that if you’re serious about changing the world, stop walking around on eggshells.

Do Guests Notice the Little Things?

I felt I needed more buy-in from them in helping to lead the church. They were a great group of people who were passionate about reaching the lost, but they had begun to neglect some of the little things to keep a church operating.

21 Nuggets of Wisdom From Trial and (Lots of) Error

Preachers, Bible teachers, and those who work with youth and children will not know until they get to Glory how God has used them.

5 Tips on Listening Well

Active listening is a communication technique used in counseling, training, and conflict resolution. It requires that the listener fully concentrate, understand, respond and then remember what is being said.

To Revitalize or to Replant?

Should some churches seeking revitalization think about replanting instead?

5 Clarifications as You Navigate a New Position

Within the first month I asked one of the longest tenured staff members lead a discussion with the entire staff during a staff meeting.