5 Shifts Every Pastor Needs to Make When It Comes to Ai This Year
Pastors and church leaders seem to be developing a curious relationship with AI. They generally don’t use it, but almost everyone has an opinion...
4 Steps to Help You Rise In Your Organization
Most leaders have a desire to rise in within the organization they serve. It’s no different in the church, but in all environments, it’s...
Seven Tips to Make Sermon Points More Memorable
My wife recently found a box of old church bulletins with notes from my previous sermons. She is a prodigious note-taker. These old bulletins...
4 Ways to Balance Leadership Roles and Personal Identity
When I started to blog, I found myself losing myself. I wanted so badly to be successful that I gave up a lot of...
It’s the Little Things About Pastoring That Drive Ministers to Early Graves.
…there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches (2 Corinthians 11:28).
Pastoring God’s people can be exhausting.
Even when you do...
3 Ways Leaders Can Deal with Their Shame
Shame is a powerful and often silent killer of our soul. It has afflicted many pastors and ministry leaders. Edward Welch, author of Shame Interrupted (a...
The One Big Change Taking Place In Church Hiring Practices (and It’s Under the...
It is a movement. It is an undeniable movement.
In the midst of all the changes taking place in churches, this one factor is rarely...
The Power of Active Listening In Leadership
There’s an age-old saying that people don’t care what you know until they know how much you care. This quote has been attributed to...
Why Nobody Wants to Work at a Church Anymore: Toxic Culture, Low Pay, and...
There’s a crisis brewing in the church that almost no one is talking about: Nobody wants to work at a church anymore.
Very few next-gen people...
Things No Pastor Should Ever Tell
My insurance man called, but not to sell me a policy. Jim had something else in mind.
He called urging me to vote for a...