Inspire Your Team: 5 Ways to Lead by Example and Motivate Others
While leaders are meant to get results, one of their other responsibilities is to inspire those they lead. Leaders are meant to build up,...
Pastoral Care for Healthy Churches (and Pastors)
I’m sure there are a few leaders who want to keep their churches small, or who don’t care about church growth.
But most small church leaders...
A Natural Disposition Toward Shallowness: the Preacher’s Occupational Hazard
“I was born with a natural disposition toward shallowness. I now work as a pundit and columnist. I’m paid to be a narcissistic blowhard,...
When a Pastor Falls, Is Restoration Possible?
When a Pastor fails morally there is extensive “collateral damage”. The pain isn’t limited to the pastor’s family, the entire church takes a punch...
3 Common Mistakes Churches Make When Hiring
There are few processes as important to your staff as hiring. That’s why you’re probably willing to spend however much time and effort it...
How to Be a Likeable Leader
Great leaders lead by influence and a likeable leaders influences others better. Their character, competencies, and relational skills or lack there of, can determine...
How to Throw Away Accumulated Junk In Your Church
You might be surprised that this issue really exists in churches.
It really does in a lot of churches.
In fact, it is so bad in...
Five Essential Accountability Standards for Pastors and Paid Church Staff
Accountability is the acceptance of responsibility for your actions. But what does this acceptance look like with paid church staff?
It’s more than theology. For...
Some Thoughts on the Life, Death, and Legacy of Tim Keller
If you’re like many church leaders, you felt a deep sadness when you heard the news of Tim Keller’s death. Tim’s passing was emotional...
6 Principles to Help You Thrive Through the Long Middle of Your Leadership Calling
Leadership is a lifetime endeavor.
The anticipation in the early years
The mundane middle
The clarity of the closing season
The beginning of your leadership journey and how...
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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...
