When the critics come, here are a few encouragements from Scripture.
I was sitting in a team meeting when that all-too-familiar feeling swept over me. Bob was speaking again in a condescending way to Tony, whose face had already started reacting.
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.
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.
When we feel rejected, hurt, or fearful, we often react, get visibly angry, or become defensive. Those responses can hinder God’s work in our lives and hurt our leadership. So what can we do?
For years I looked at criticism as negative words meant to tear me down.
Have you ever realized, mid-conversation, that the person you’re arguing with is actually right, but you’re already in too deep to turn around, so you keep going?
You can’t have true innovation without some level of disagreement.
People are brutal. They don’t care what they say, how they say it, or how much their words hurt. People will trounce you for taking a stand.
If you've served your people for many years and now only receive criticism and complaints, apply these leadership tips from from Moses.
As ministry leaders, we get a lot of feedback on how we operate and even who we are. To sort through it all, we must learn to differentiate instruction from criticism.
Call me crazy, but I love people who are abusive, unsupportive, or unhealthy emotionally.
Traversing the "neutral zone" will be hard, but it will be easier if you use these 6 interventions.
Don’t let your sorrow be wasted. Use it to motivate you to find a way to accomplish something purposeful.
What is your church doing to energize a reconciliation ministry?
As Christian investors, what should our response be?
Some states recently banned all gatherings over 250, including church worship services, because of the possible transmission of the coronavirus.
Of all the deadly poisons known to humanity, none is more dangerous than pride.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the things that hold me back.
