Years ago a leadership mentor taught me a simple yet profoundly effective tool to keep an organization aligned with its plan. It's a matrix that looks at each opportunity or idea and asks two basic questions.
The best investments in business are the fields that yield abundant harvests into eternity.
Brainstorming focuses on solutions; question-storming focuses on identifying the problems and issues that need to be addressed to create unparalleled success.
When I get in a funk, something that helps me snap out of it is to analyze why I'm down. It's beneficial to define reality and identify the source. I determined three issues were negatively impacting me.
Martha and I bought a house that didn't have a traditional cement sidewalk. Instead, it had a "paver" sidewalk. But there was a root problem — literally.
The only place for you right now, as a field sergeant in the army of God, is on the battlefield.
I've been in several situations, mostly in churches, where a lack of a clear purpose, clear directions and clearly stated goals led to confusion, frustration and wasted time.
It's easy to miss what's in front of us when we are hurried, stressed or thinking only of ourselves.
Questions can help leaders go further and do more. Yet, many leaders are unwilling to ask.
Has God equipped your church to minister to "people like us"?
When will our churches get back to normal? If "normal" means pre-COVID behavior, we will not return at all. We will, however, experience a new normal. We have to be ready for it when it comes.
An expansive update built on Faithlife's preexisting software, Logos 9 offers user-friendly features to accompany its extensive selection of books, lexicons, and commentaries, which I found especially helpful for my research papers and exam study times.
Most leaders fear change not because they're afraid of change, but because they're afraid it's going to backfire. The truth about change is that it's more mysterious than it needs to be.
Do you have a job or a calling? A job is something you do, often for compensation. A calling defines who you are and what you are created to do.
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In this short video interview, Bob Whitesel explains some of the most creative uses of technology he's seen since the arrival of COVID-19.
I taught at a Christian university for 11 years, counseling and guiding young men and women either already in the ministry or those that soon would be. Even then, I saw their struggles with sexuality.
Moses experienced God in near-fatal doses. How do you experience him?
When we remember to use a person's name, we're saying they are important to us. People feel more respected and valued when they hear their name.
