Leadership

Clean Your Bookshelves and Your Soul

Don’t let the comfort of familiar pain prevent you from embracing the unknown discomfort of positive change.

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.

Race and the Gospel: How Can We Move Beyond a Broken Witness?—Part 4

“When We’re in a Posture of Hospitality, We Can’t Objectify Those With Whom We Disagree. We Can’t Throw Stones While Serving Bread.”

When Leaders Can’t Make a Decision

Sometimes, the leader is distracted. Other times, there are dissenting voices in the organization.

Race and the Gospel: What Happens If We Forget the Poor?—Part 3

“Heaven and Hell Show Up in the Balance as Jesus Pointedly Discusses the Inability to Separate our Love of Neighbor From our Love of Him.”

Getting Better at What You Do

We all have areas where we can improve. Everyone can always get better. We can improve upon the way it’s always been done, learn new ways of doing things, and do things better the more we try.

Avoid These 9 Ways to Lose Trust When You Lead

I think it’s important to know what causes us to lose trust with the people we are attempting to lead.

Don’t Let These 4 Church Frustrations Get the Best of You

It is both weighty and a privilege that Jesus has transferred His authority to those in leadership, yet that authority doesn’t belong to us, it’s on loan, and we are to be good stewards of that spiritual authority.

Race and the Gospel: What Happens When We Compartmentalize Faith?—Part 2

“Surely the Good News of Jesus Has Something to Say to the Greatest Historic Injustice of the Last 500 Years.”

30 Leadership Lessons

If I could go back in time, what would I tell that young church planter in 1992? What things didn’t I know then, and what things did I commit to then that I’ve found were well worth the commitment?