How to experience a breakthrough in your church’s growth
The growth of the church is for the good of the entire world, so your church needs to grow!
5 reasons many pastors struggle with depression
Many pastors really do struggle with depression.
Lessons learned from a hedgehog to benefit your ministry
The “Hedgehog Concept” has helped successful organizations define who they are, focus their energies and become more successful. They do this by answering three critical questions.
4 tactics to guard your heart
As leaders, you need to know that there is a battle going on for your credibility and character.
When should a preaching pastor be asked to resign?
Is ‘preferences’ a biblical reason for not supporting a pastor?
5 key leadership lessons I wish I knew 25 years ago
I’ve been in vocational ministry for more than 38 years, and if only I knew then what I know now.
3 prevention questions that save leaders time and money
I’ve noticed over the years that leaders do more problem suppression than problem prevention—often with damaging results.
Housing allowance appeal moves forward
A Christian-based legal rights group urges pastors to express their support for the clergy housing allowance as a case moves forward in federal court. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago is to consider an appeal of a lower court ruling that the allowance constitutes an unconstitutional preference for religion. The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed the lawsuit. Among others, a group of clergy is contesting the decision. The Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) plans to submit a friend-of-the-court brief and is calling for pastors to sign on to it. Noting the allowance has existed for 50-plus years, the [...]
Book review: Designed to Lead
What? Another book on leadership? Yes, it is, but Designed to Lead: The Church and Leadership Development has a different take on the subject.
The one thing we forget about leadership
As I listen to leaders talk about their organizations, there seems to be a shift from an overemphasis on vision to a neglected emphasis on leadership performance.
3 steps toward a less-stress ministry
How do you manage to be at peace under pressure?
8 questions to help your church focus its outreach
Here are eight questions a leadership team can ask to discover their target group.
13 questions to discover your management blind spots
If we aren’t equipped to see these blind spots on our own, then how are we supposed to address and work on them?
How to navigate a tough staff conversation
It’s easy to neglect such vital conversations for several reasons: fear, they’ve gone sour in the past, we don’t know how, etc. But to lead well, we must not avoid those talks.
Maybe God is calling you to be a small-church pastor
Karl Vaters begins his new book, Small Church Essentials with three facts that may change your perspective on small-church pastoring.
3 advantages of choosing a target group
In my experience of helping churches with strategic-planning tasks, the most controversial part of the process is choosing a target or focus group.
5 words that say everything
These five words of gratefulness could change the way you approach life and leadership.
What does servant leadership look like?
Do you spell it s-e-r-v-i-c-e or serve-us?
Leading open and closed people
When it comes to leading difficult people, who do you continue to invest in and who do you stop spending time and energy on?
5 ways to have better relationships at church
It’s easy to focus on the negative people and interactions and spend a lot of time discussing them (if not complaining).
