Individuals interested in joining the TLC team are assessed for what we simply call the five Cs: calling, character, culture, chemistry and competence.
I've been competing all of my life. It seems like the very air we breathe pushes us toward individualism, not cooperation.
More than 1,000 volunteers from 10 churches united to serve over 40 schools throughout the Louisville community.
Did you know that your work and your workplace are under a curse?
Don't miss your Sunday ministry, as it may be the most important ministry you will ever have.
Ministering to the incarcerated doesn’t take special skills or training. It just takes saying “yes” to God. Once you do that, says Derry, there’s no limit to what God can do.
I have spent a lot of time drafting my Anti-Bucket List—things I am intentionally sacrificing in this life so that I can accumulate as many eternal rewards as possible per Jesus's command.
We’ve invented a million anti-aging products in an attempt to preserve our physical lives longer. What if we took seriously the idea that who we are becoming is an eternal matter?
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.
