It’s never too late for a miracle
Over the past year, you've likely needed to help many people in your community find hope. After a year of helping other people find hope in one of the most difficult seasons any of us have experienced, you may find yourself in need of hope.
The reasons Holy Week is hard for many people
For hundreds of millions of Christians around the world, this week symbolizes the very heart of our entire faith. But for some, this week with the most positive of meanings can still be a reminder of pain.
When God disciplines you
When something goes drastically wrong in our lives, we often wonder why God is punishing us.
The church is on the move
What we're seeing is not that Christianity is disappearing—instead, it's spreading and shifting its geographical center.
Navigating conflict (or sin) on your team
Brittany Rust shares the biblical model for addressing sin and conflict on your team. (This is a snippet from Brittany's online leadership course for women, Leading and Loving From the Woman's Heart, found at brittanyrust.com.)
Do staff performance reviews help or hinder?
As a senior pastor I've performed annual staff performance reviews for years thinking that I was helping those leaders improve their performance. But recent neuroscience has shown that negative feedback (including such feedback given in evaluations) may actually hurt the self-esteem of those we evaluate. If staff evaluations potentially hurt the cause rather than help, should we eliminate the evaluations or make some other changes? In this post I answer that question. The researchers in one study performed a simple experiment on college students. The students first performed a mock interview. Afterwards as they lay in an MRI, they received [...]
Strengthen your meeting agendas!
How many meeting agendas have you read where the leader listed topics but gave you no clue as to what outcome he or she wanted?
4 ways to shift your leadership from control freak to growth freak
Effective leaders know that to maximize growth, they must be willing to give up a measure of control.
2 essential qualities of great leaders
How do we develop ourselves, and how can we pursue being "great" at leadership?
How to pull out of a leadership lull
The next time you face a leadership lull, try one or two of these simple steps and see what happens.
Networked people in the post-pandemic church
Online communities often enhance offline friendships.
Interview with Tom Crea: Keys to learning servant leadership
Tom is a servant-leadership ambassador and the author of Unleash Your Values: How to Lead and Succeed in Business Today . . . A Helicopter Pilot's Spin on Developing the Leader in You.
From the depths of depression
The psalms are written as a balm for the soul. They demonstrate the cries to a God who does hear, who does understand. These words allow us to recognize that we are not alone.
4 blind spots that sabotage organizational culture
Rather than extravagant employee perks or outrageous office antics, the most common cultural blind spots are related to your everyday behaviors as a team.
When people frustrate you
In this video clip, Sean Lord shares how Jesus models the way we should interact with people -- even the ones that pull out in front of us (and deserve a loud honk).
Generosity and the brain
I believe my leadership calling is to bring insight about the incredible gift from God called the brain into conversations about Christian leadership.
Responding to the different seasons of growth
The analogy of a growing plant can be used to describe a person's faith journey.
Leaders need clean lives
It was just me, alone and tired in the little motel room. I flipped on the television only to have messages immediately hitting me from the "adult" viewing channel.
Finding deep soul rest, no matter your season
Leadership can be draining and we all face seasons of exhaustion. Brittany Rust shares the key to rest in every season.
Where God guides, he provides
Where is he leading you today?
