Integrity isn’t lost in one dramatic fall—it erodes slowly, often unnoticed. Recognizing the cracks early could be the difference between lasting influence and quiet collapse.
Integrity is crucial for success. Do you have it? Strengthening integrity is key to surviving personal and professional crises.
When passion fades, it’s easy to assume it’s time to quit—but what if it’s actually time to stay? Sometimes perseverance is not just the harder path, it’s the one that leads to renewed purpose and unexpected breakthrough.
What if one focused goal could transform your year—and your leadership? Discover how prioritizing a single, meaningful objective can lead to breakthrough results in both ministry and business.
Solitude recharges, restores, and connects, while isolation drains and disconnects. Distinguishing between the two is crucial for leadership and well-being. Prioritize intentional breaks for solitude to fuel energy and clarity.
My spirit is gentler, my mind sharper and my input more helpful if I show up rested and ready.
There are some people who cultivate wisdom that makes everything they contribute to better. If you can bring this to the table on the majority of your days, you will bring more than most people.
The leader who leads by intimidating others can hinder personal growth and innovation. It limits creativity, stunts personal development, and impedes originality. True leaders must strike a balance between learning from others and developing their own unique voice and ideas.
Maintaining long-term passion in leadership can often be a challenge. Initial passion may come from first experiences and new endeavors, but substitutes like caffeine, overscheduling, hype, time off, and new interests can't sustain it.
Saying no is crucial in leadership growth to focus on what truly matters. Embracing "no" can lead to better results and personal development.
Most of us spend a lot of time trying to figure out whether we think God is trustworthy. Maybe the only question isn’t whether we can trust God.
Are some people just a waste of time? Are there people you need to cut out of your life now?
Every once in a while when I read the Bible stuff pops up that I just plain never noticed before.
More and more I’m seeing at the end of the day all we’ve got is our relationship with God and with people. Not the idea of a relationship, but the reality of a relationship.
Everything has its season. And the season of the cool church is, in many ways, coming to an end.
Every leader has a choice between self-care and self-medication, and subconsciously, many choose the ‘polite’ version of self-medication.
So, what do you do if you want things to change and pretty much no one else does?
Is there anything you or I do–as regular, average pastors–that hurts rather than helps the cause of the local church?
We’re all gifted at something. Sometimes in the name of false modesty we pretend we’re not really that gifted. But that’s just not true. You’re gifted at something.
One of the biggest challenges you will face as a leader is figuring out how to treat people.
