Resisting the Urge
Our inherent personality traits, emotional makeup, and “nature”are so strong, that as the parable states – even when it hurts us, we still can’t help it.
Leadership
What Is Your Church Doing to Help Children in Need?
The church is not designed to be a shield protecting the Christian bubble of safety. Rather, the church is a vehicle engineered by God to send people into the darkest corners of the neighborhood, focusing on helping children in need.
How to Create an Awesome Internship Program
Best practices for training up the next generation of church leaders
10 Healthy Church Signs
Whenever Gods people do the hard thing in the Lords waywhen we love the unlovely, when we forgive our attackers, when we do good things to our enemy, when we soldier on in the face of adversity, when we maintain our joy in the midst of disaster and retaliate with lovetwelve things begin to happen from that moment, revealing key healthy church signs.
My Biggest Ministry Fail
It would be many years before I began to realize how much I needed others. My failure to recognize the beauty of believers serving together cost me much in those early years.
7 Tips to Become Better Leaders
Let God lead you through Scripture. Find passages that relate to your daily struggles. Many Bibles today have additional tools to help you. A simple study note or devotion can give you more confidence in your decision-making and help you become better leaders.
Look to Proverbs for Leadership Training
Leadership has to start with leading yourself well. You may be skilled, charismatic, or gifted, and those things may serve you well and advance your influence. Nevertheless, those abilities will only get you so far if you have not cultivated integrity, but effective leadership training from proverbs can help.
Who’s In the Driver’s Seat? Understanding Informal Authority in Leadership
While much power comes from formal positions with legitimate authority, a different kind of power is found in leadership roles with informal authority, particularly within church settings.
Pastor, What Pastor What Not To Love?
Flattery is like perfume, were told. It smells good but will make you sick if you swallow it. Ive known too many preachers who swallow all the flattery they can find, then look around for more. Not wise. This article explores the pastor what not to love pitfalls.
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson: Reading Women
When considering resources for our church, we must include the contributions of women. In recent years the hashtag #ReadWomen has surfaced to draw attention to this need, highlighting the importance of works by authors like Natasha Sistrunk Robinson.
