Leadership

How Often Do You Feel Lonely?

Jesus’s life was more beautiful, more intentional, and much less lonely than our lives feel.

3 Warning Signs Your Church Might Be in Decline

Every church that has declined has had a mission, but they failed to follow it.

Leaders as Shepherds, Servants and Stewards

The reality of the unreached makes the need for leader development exceedingly acute and exposes the dire consequences of not having well-formed leaders.

Michael Fletcher: Empowering Leadership

How a Leadership Development Culture Builds Better Leaders Faster

Good Preaching Requires Good Thinking

To preach well, we must be committed to expend the mental effort to understand the Scriptures and exposit them for our hearers.

Expository Exultation

John Piper: Christian Preaching as Worship

The Books That Have Influenced Me Most

How many books you read is not the important thing. How deeply you read them will determine the lasting effect they will have on you.

Karl Vaters: Small Church Essentials

Karl Vaters: Field-Tested Principles for Leading a Healthy Congregation of Under 250

How God Preaches to Us—and Through Us

When a preacher speaks, God is the one who is speaking. Therefore the preacher has the dual privilege of preaching and listening.

Juggling the Daily Demands of a Pastor

It's eye-opening to consider all the small ways a pastor is involved in the life of the church. How can we find balance?

Faithful and Fractured

Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell and Jason Byassee: Responding to the Clergy Health Crisis