Do you desire to be rich?
Is the aspiration to be rich against biblical teaching?
Book review: Building the Body
In Building the Body: 12 Characteristics of a Fit Church, Gary L. MacIntosh and Phil Stevenson identify characteristics that distinguish fit churches from the merely healthy.
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.
President Carter speaking at Liberty U. commencement
Liberty University, whose president’s early endorsement of President Trump foreshadowed a groundswell of evangelical support for the chief executive, has invited former President (and liberal Democrat) Jimmy Carter to speak at its spring commencement ceremony. Carter will be the third president to speak at the school, following George H.W. Bush and Trump. Scheduled for May 19, the school’s 45th commencement will recognize about 18,000 graduates, including the first class of the College of Osteopathic Medicine. In a statement regarding the invitation to Carter, Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr. said he had tremendous respect for the former chief executive as a [...]
The difficulty in finding your purpose
Everyone was born for a purpose. That’s right, even you. You are here for a reason.
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.
8 questions to help your church focus its outreach
Here are eight questions a leadership team can ask to discover their target group.
The prayer God always answers
Here are four of Jesus' promises that are sure to impact your leadership.
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.
Guiding cause-driven Millennials toward Christ-driven leadership
There are two things we can do to lead our cause-driven young adults to Christ-driven leadership for the cause of Christ.
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?
4 solutions to vision, mission and strategy challenges
What is vision to you? How does it differ from mission and strategy? Does it really matter how you define those terms, as long as you have an overall goal?
10 ways this effective leader understood and encountered culture
Excellent biblical leadership enables people to taste, smell and touch the culture of God’s kingdom. Here are 10 things Jesus understood and practiced about culture, which will help us do the same.
A missional people
Consider this mode of mission to help clarify, challenge and encourage church leaders toward missional effectiveness and multiplication.
3 ways to cultivate a toxic leadership culture
In a secular society passionate about including others, we cannot afford an atmosphere of exclusivism if we want our ministry message to be heard.
4 mistakes to consider from biblical leaders in the Old Testament
In every situation, we have the opportunity to focus on God and live by faith.
3 ways to elevate mission over method
The mission must be greater than the method or we are in trouble. This isn't just a church problem, but a business problem as well.
Wise leaders develop a vision for rest
Are you in the habit of tackling life at a frenetic pace? You may want to rethink that.
They said I was a narrow-minded leader
As a biblical leader in business, and in life, wisdom requires you to be a fool.
