God is using this season of chaos to prepare His children for a season of opportunity that is likely beyond our imagination.
I want to encourage you to persevere! Here are four obstacles you may not even realize you’re overcoming every day on your servant leadership journey.
Right now, more than ever, the church needs to model what it looks like to be good neighbors.
Leading your church in between "closed" and "open" is uncharted land. Here's how to begin navigating it.
As Christ-followers, if we were to live out these verses all day, every day, our world would experience amazing healing.
Traversing the "neutral zone" will be hard, but it will be easier if you use these 6 interventions.
After years of trying and failing to eat fewer sweets, I changed my strategy.
Our carnal mind attempts to inhibit God’s work by distracting us and/or dissuading us of the notion that God is up to something.
Don’t let your sorrow be wasted. Use it to motivate you to find a way to accomplish something purposeful.
What your church needs, and what my church needs, is a pastor that is reentering with a mission.
The principles of servant leadership are applicable in all aspects of life. Probably no area is more important than in the lives of parents and grandparents.
The main idea of the book is that in order to solve the most important problems, you have to catch them upstream.
On April 1, 1981, I began full-time ministry. Since then, I’ve thought a lot about my early days as a pastor – both the good and the bad.
Preparing and delivering an effective story takes work and practice. But storytelling remains one of the most effective methods of engaging communication. Here are three key elements of effective storytelling.
If you feel like quitting your job, remember this encouragement.
Short on new ideas? Look to the past.
Pastors should seek out people with whom they can process the pain that ministry inevitably brings.
If you want to last in ministry, you need to learn how to deal with disappointment.
Now may be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rethink how we do church. Here are 12 new rules for church-going.
Your church may or may not be responding, but you as a leader have a chance to influence the team members under your care. You can respond in the sphere of influence God has given you.





















