A quick checklist on how you view change.
How do you find momentum and growth in a season when everything you spend your life working toward changed overnight?
Pastor, God has wonderful opportunities for you and your ministry, but you must be prepared to take advantage of them when they come.
In my review of Improv Leadership, I want to take a look at three of the authors' five leadership competencies, and how they can help you become a leader of champions.
Although my seminary profs never directly taught me to question the dumb leadership assumptions I’ve listed below, even if they had I wonder if in my youthful enthusiasm I would have listened.
Who would have predicted the articulation of these sentences in churches prior to 2020? It has been a strange year. It has been a painful year.
In this true story, a grandmother's emotional response left long-lasting scars in my childhood church. I wish a leader had stepped forward to prevent it.
How do we begin leading our leaders and our people in changing the default metrics that define ministry success?
Ready to get messy? You’ll never know how greatly God wants to use you in this world until you’re willing to move toward the messes.
If you give in to these shortcuts, you can lose credibility, sow confusion, or slow momentum.
These practices can moderate the unhealthy push to produce more, more, more.
The book of Hebrews offers leaders profound insight about faith that we must believe and embody if we want to effectively lead.
If we are to lead our churches to live on mission for God, we must begin with understanding how to “be all there” wherever God has placed us, and with whatever gift God has given us.
Many church and ministry leaders are suffering from decision fatigue right now. There are more decisions, and many routine decisions have become more complex.
Few things in life happen spontaneously. Almost everything in life needs a plan.
The themes and stories that you emphasize in your communication will set the tone for your organization.
You may feel the pain of the losses, but God has a plan for your church to embrace the new reality to which you are headed.
Might there be a person who would dare to stand in the gap before the Lord in this moment?
If you’re a church leader, God has given you a task much bigger than you can handle on your own.
The ability of a leader to speak the truth is not opposed to the idea of being kind. In leadership, speaking the truth is the very essence of kindness.
