Train, Train, Train

As I’m continuing to make my running comeback after COVID-19, the importance of training and training has been at the forefront of my mind. COVID...

2 Steps to Wage War on Worry

Over many years in church leadership, I’ve learned that there are no more powerful tools at my disposal than prayer and the Word. You may...

5 Tips for a Personal Planning Retreat

My undergrad degree is industrial engineering. So, planning is second nature for me. As a busy pastor, I’ve found that I can never get...

Are You Willing to Change Your Ministry Approach? 

Are you willing to change? If you do the same thing the same way, you’re going to get the same result. Is that enough...

Five Surefire Ways to Identify and Grow Potential Leaders

Identifying and growing potential leaders can be tricky. You may not know what to look for or what you can do to develop these...

Experts: Read/listen, Then Decide for Yourself

What started this for me was a fascination with the fourth of Jesus’ seven parables found in Matthew 13. As I often do when...

Please Stay on the Wall — Someone Needs You!

Tom had reached out to a friend for prayer. As he conveyed his request, the individual began to pray over his need. When the...

5 Common Temptations for Leaders and Their Devotional Life

Forty years of ministry has taught me that only Jesus brings real power and the life-changing authority that makes it possible for any church...

God on a Baseball Diamond

At a fund-raising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the school’s students delivered a speech that would...

5 Leadership Books to Read In June 2022

A leader is always learning. One of those ways to continue to learn is to continue to read. Every book you read, you begin...
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10 Ways to Tell You Are Slipping Spiritually

For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.  (Hebrews...

12 Things That Tempt Men to Peruse Porn

As I’ve researched the issues caused by porn, I am shocked not just at its moral consequences, but at its social costs, damage to marriages,...

Course Corrections to Church Growth – by Jason Swann

We took over a 36-year-old church rebounding from the moral failure of their Senior Pastor on the other side of COVID. We came in...