What aspect of your character is God ripening?
When life shakes us, what fruit is revealed?
Make the most of where you are
What really matters to you?
When it seems you’re headed backward rather than forward
Sometimes we go the wrong way on our way to the right way.
4 focus group questions for helping your ministry
"Why did you decide to attend our church for the first time?" Asking focus groups questions like this can help you understand your church in a deeper way.
Where are you in your leadership journey?
Exodus 18:19-23 shows us the best way to distribute responsibility and authority.
My favorite question to ask leaders
Leadership is not as much about knowing the right answers as it is about knowing the right questions.
Exercising your leadership
As leaders, we're often tempted to believe that a conference or book or program will instantly solve our problems. But lasting solutions always require significant work.
How to introduce change and navigate the risks involved
To introduce significant change, leaders must know when and how to cash in their “change chips.”
How leaders can navigate privacy with their team
How do you know when to draw the line and stay out of your employees' private lives?
The dangerous chains of habit
The kind of habits we form in life will play a large part in our success or failure.
5 faulty assumptions about the future church
If you get your assumptions right as a church leader, the future should be a lot easier than if you get them wrong.
4 levels of leadership—where are you?
Leaders need to grow and change or their organizations won’t.
Do you have a problem only Jesus can solve?
Would you allow anything to stand between you and Jesus?
Why I’m ready to go home
When this world wounds you, don’t you sometimes muse, “Lord, I think I want to come home now”?
How to reach your community with compelling communication
You want to reach people. But is your church compelling to your highways and byways (your community)?
Developing spiritual habits
How do we carry out this great commission in our everyday lives?
Transform your leadership to-do list
Leaders must be able to end their day, look back, and know with certainty whether or not this was a good leadership day.
Excuses don’t grow leaders
The excuses I made about my physical condition sound a lot like ones I’ve heard from leaders about their developmental needs.
6 reasons your church welcome ministry is vital
The church welcome ministry is more important today than it’s ever been.
How to grow through adversity
We are not helpless. We can face our fears and overcome this adversity.
