No longer do people decide to walk into a church on a Sunday just to check things out. Your website is key for pulling visitors in.
Through mentorship and coaching, the embers of your aspirations can be reignited into a blazing fire of purpose and action.
Take your best next steps in the right order. Plan your work and work your plan.
In the midst of all the gloom and doom about the state of churches, I remain an obnoxious optimist.
So you'd love to see more volunteers serve in your church or organization. Who wouldn't? And yet when it comes to volunteers, a surprising number of leaders struggle.
While today's virtual teams leverage new technology, the underlying principles of what makes that work haven't changed.
It is tempting to ignore what lies beneath the ticker symbols on our brokerage statements. But we cannot take the shot that numbs us to the real pain and suffering on the other end of our investment activities.
If you are indeed growing in your leadership, you should see evidence of a growing number of leaders emerging whom you are building into.
Leaders often ask me, "How far ahead should our ministry plan?" The answer depends on the change cycle of your ministry.
When one of his films lasted only two weeks in theaters, Richard felt like a failure. And he spent the next seven years in a wilderness of projects that never came to fruition.
Nineteen years ago, when I retired from a 40-year ministry at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, I decided to dedicate the next chapter of my life to encouraging other pastors.
When they hired me, I'm pretty certain I was the youngest senior pastor since 1949.
We influence whether we acknowledge it or not. Our influence can be accidental, or it can be purposeful.
You have a lot of choices. You also have a lot of decisions. How will you make the wisest decisions?
Find a simple, but powerful, framework you can use as a tool to assess how your current board is functioning and what it needs to focus on.
In this episode, Rodney Cox talks to Nancy Moore, an expert in the field of pastoral succession planning. Nancy has helped guide hundreds of churches through these delicate leadership changes over her decades of experience.
Ruts pose two hazards for a bike rider. One, they’re hard to get out of. Two, they take control of the steering. The words “go to church” create similar risks for Christ-followers.
Making prayer spaces accessible is important, but so is this often neglected element.
One of the most perplexing questions a Christian and, to be sure, a Christian leader will face when it comes to risk is this: Am I trusting God, or am I simply being foolish? The question isn’t as dumb as it seems.
As the saying goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Successful leaders surround themselves with successful advisors.
