Rebuke unapologetically
If a car is heading up an exit ramp the wrong way, the most loving thing you can do is blare on your horn. When we see hazardous behavior in the lives of fellow believers, we need to love them enough to rebuke them in the most effective way possible.
5 trends in small groups coming out of COVID
Most of the attention has been focused on the regathering of in-person worship services, but small groups are regathering as well.
Finding work/life balance in a work-from-home world
There will always be days when life takes over your work and other days when work takes over your life.
3 things to know before a church rebrand
A rebrand doesn't change the gospel message, instead it compels people to receive the message of hope in a way they'll feel like they're understood and loved.
What are you letting become normal?
Begin searching your life for the things you've let become normal that shouldn't be. I'm sure you'll find a whole host of them. I know I did!
10 signs a leader may need a new challenge
If three or more of these are true of you, you need a new challenge.
7 healthy ways to raise a leader’s performance (and lifespan)
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that America is going through its longest sustained decline in life expectancy in a century.
BiblicalLeadership.com writer profile: Rob Streetman
I spent many years of my Christian walk subconsciously assuming God wanted every part of my life except for my career (after all, I worked for a bank). Eventually, my controlling nature led to a level of pride that God would no longer tolerate.
Leading through preaching
As a retired pastor, now looking for a church home, I have visited several churches and listened to preachers casting vision, reminding us of their mission, explaining their detailed strategy and describing the culture they wish to create.
Why the healthy post-pandemic church will be a church of congregations
Understanding the different sub-congregations in your church is the starting place to make you a better leader.
Gender issues in leadership
Many of us have formed our views about women and leadership by osmosis. We've simply absorbed the beliefs of denominations, our leaders, our parents, and our mentors without asking the questions and studying the issue for ourselves about what makes a leader and who is eligible to lead.
At last, a simple way to bring your strategic plan to life
Years ago a leadership mentor taught me a simple yet profoundly effective tool to keep an organization aligned with its plan. It's a matrix that looks at each opportunity or idea and asks two basic questions.
Does your business invest in Kingdom impact?
The best investments in business are the fields that yield abundant harvests into eternity.
Question-storming
Brainstorming focuses on solutions; question-storming focuses on identifying the problems and issues that need to be addressed to create unparalleled success.
The biblical cure for anxiety and despair
When I get in a funk, something that helps me snap out of it is to analyze why I'm down. It's beneficial to define reality and identify the source. I determined three issues were negatively impacting me.
What’s hiding underneath?
Martha and I bought a house that didn't have a traditional cement sidewalk. Instead, it had a "paver" sidewalk. But there was a root problem — literally.
The battle is calling you
The only place for you right now, as a field sergeant in the army of God, is on the battlefield.
The critical connection between context and culture
I've started churches, served more established congregations, and been the vice president of a half-billion-dollar company. Now, I am privileged to lead the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. In my roles, I have seen leaders who overwhelmingly succeed and those who phenomenally fail. One of the key differentiators of success for leaders that I have observed is their ability to create, protect, shape, and embody an appropriate culture that matches the goals and purposes of their organization. In the discussion about culture, it is easy to make broad, sweeping statements about the need to shape culture. But good leaders [...]
Blurred lines and how to avoid them
I've been in several situations, mostly in churches, where a lack of a clear purpose, clear directions and clearly stated goals led to confusion, frustration and wasted time.
Leaders who focus on helping others change the world
It's easy to miss what's in front of us when we are hurried, stressed or thinking only of ourselves.
