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.

5 Resolutions for the Leaders of Your Church

The best pastors find ways to create a collective vision with input from various church members. They do not champion their preferences as the vision for all.

3 Reasons to Encourage Teenagers to Serve in the Church

Why the church should embrace teens serving on Sundays

Considering New Year’s Resolutions for Your Church?

We make resolutions because we want to bring change to bear on our circumstances. We want to improve ourselves and our quality of life. And the top resolutions, for most people, tend to revolve around the same three poles: money, health and family.

How Your Pressure Shapes Your Leadership

Chronic stress leaves the stress hormone, cortisol, in your body and brain for extended periods of time (as well as imbalancing brain chemicals called neurotransmitters).

How to Handle Resistance to Change as a New Pastor

The default setting to change something is only natural for a good leader. Having a vision means being dissatisfied with the status quo.

Pastors, Consider These 4 New Year’s Resolutions This Year

While you won’t always be as consistent in your followthrough as you had hoped, the process of setting resolutions can be an important spiritual discipline that at least sets our focus in the right direction.

Preaching to Ourselves

As a pastor, there’s something I don’t like to hear after I preach. I get where people are coming from when they say it,...

Do You Know These 5 Things About Your Church’s Community?

Rarely do pastors and church leaders know how many in their communities live below the poverty line and struggle to pay medical bills. If you want to care for the least of these, then you must know this data about your neighborhood.