How Churches Will Grow In 2024 – by Jim Graff
Healthy pastors have healthy churches. Sadly, many pastors are not healthy. They’re disconnected from the friendships they need, the information they need, to succeed....
Burnout: How to Dig Out
From time to time every leader and pastor and person faces burnout. The well runs dry. He or she becomes weary in well doing....
10 Indicators You Have No Margin In Your Life
In Richard Swenson’s seminal book, Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, he defines margin this way. Margin is the space between...
6 Ways Leaders Can Keep Their Brains Sharp
As our bodies age, so do our brains. Are we doomed to irreplaceable cognitive decline? Or, can we make some choices to keep mentally...
4 Subtle Dangers of Pride
One of the most dangerous things about pride is that it’s easy to see in others but difficult to see in ourselves.
Any leader can...
How Curiosity Can Make You Less Defensive
Defensiveness. We’ve all been guilty. Someone in our family says something that hurts us and we say something back to retaliate. A person at work...
5 Brain Benefits from Creating Routines
I read a great book called Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown. In one chapter on ‘flow’ he describes the routine Michael Phelps...
Sloppiness In Ministry Is Not Allowed
“Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, knowing that you will receive the reward of...
Balancing Work, Family, and Faith: 4 Ways to Set Priorities
If you’ve been a leader for any amount of time, you know that your time is a critical asset. People are reaching out, trying...
Just Because You Are Competent to Develop a New Competency, Should You?
As leaders we all face the challenge to choose the right priorities, work on our weaknesses, and wisely manage our time. Once in a...