Leadership

How the Church Can Take the Lead in Suicide Prevention

"The church is for the broken. A church without the broken is a broken church."

How to Overcome Betrayal Trauma in Ministry

With their friends’ departures, pastors have had to recalibrate the very real cost of spiritual intimacy in doing life together.

How Loneliness and Belonging: How Often Do You Feel Lonely?

Jesus’s life reveals loneliness and belonging as a blueprint for healthy relationships.

Dreaming Through the Difficulty

Do not allow the past to dictate your church's future. Free yourself by dreaming of what can be as you work together to accomplish God's plans.

Moving Forward with Microsteps for Churches

Push through these doubt moments by leaning on God to guide you as you share through your fear the faith you have in microsteps for churches as you lean into this new phase of the church.

Capturing God’s Vision for Your Church

Inside every local church is a vision that God's Vision for Your Church has for it. The question that must be asked is, will we follow it?

5 Truths to Help Lead Pastors Serve Strong

What fuels passion and morale for ministry isn’t your educational background, your grace-gift of teaching, your experience as a communicator or your riveting personality—lead pastors serve strong.

Flourishing With a Small Church Mindset

There is a longing in the world today for people to feel valued. They are valued not for what they can bring to the table but for who they are. God has placed giftings in each person that the local church needs today—many leaders and churches long for authentic relationships that make a person feel seen and heard. The small church mindset invites authentic relationships and meaningful engagement.

Develop Guests into Future Leaders

Churches that integrate visitors into members have a clear direction of where they are going as Develop Guests into Future Leaders.

Pastors Can Achieve a Good Work-Life Balance: 5 Ways

Improving one's own spiritual well-being is a deeply personal journey that supports pastors work-life balance.

Embracing an Aging Congregation Renewal

The people who made up the church had to believe again that God could use them, us, to reach out to the community. The fact of the matter is hard choices had to be made, and it started with reclaiming the property for the Lord to enable aging congregation renewal.