Leadership

15 New Year’s Resolutions Straight Out of Scripture

What would a set of New Year’s resolutions look like for you and your church, your role as a leader, or simply as someone who wants to live a life of strategic kingdom investment? And specifically, what if they came from the Bible?

Perfectly Imperfect Churches

Most of the great breakthroughs and innovative ideas are a result of problems being viewed not as a problem to solve, but an opportunity to make things better.

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.

Ruth Haley Barton: Saved by Rest

God, who knows us best, has given us the Sabbath as a gift.

Going Beyond Cosmetic Changes

A new church sign is not going to reverse the decline in attendance.

6 Mainstays for Leaders

You don’t need anyone’s permission to rest, but that’s not the problem. But, unfortunately, we often don’t permit ourselves to rest. Is that a struggle for you?

Providing Pastoral Care in Growing Church Plants

When pastoral care must come from someone other than the pastor

The Church and the Creative Soul

It is important to drink from deep wells, expanding your own tastes and horizons of thought and emotion.

10 Things That Get Pastors Into Trouble

Distractions that can sideline pastors

Remembering Our Legacy

While we all work, serve and minister in different ways, the longer we do this important kingdom work, the more we realize that some of the teachings and practices of old are still applicable now and will be in the future.

10 Insidious Ways the Devil Gets Into the Church

Watch out for these tactics of the Enemy in spiritual warfare.