Looking Ahead: Wisdom & Resilience for a New School Year

I spend many of my days in conversations with Christian school leaders from coast to coast. What I’ve heard repeatedly over the past year...

6 Reasons Why Genuine Friendships Are Crucial to Your Leadership

The core of true companionship is acceptance, honesty, and trust. The need for genuine friendship, especially in ministry, has always been real, but perhaps now...

6 Brain Barriers to Healthy Church Change

Healthy change is necessary for any church, ministry, or business to thrive. However, leaders often run into invisible brain barriers when they attempt change....

Six Ways Social Media Toxicity Is Hurting Pastors

“There is a group of former church members in my community,” the pastor said, “that is causing me great pain. They are regularly posting...

7 Steps to a Great Vacation: How to Take a Full Month Off Work...

Have you had a real break this year? If you ask most leaders, the answer is no. Sure, they took time off, but they kept...

It’s Not the ’80s Anymore! It’s Time to Talk About Church Giving

I know I’m giving my age away, but I’m a child of the ’80s. Those were my teen years. I met my wife, Emily,...

7 Practical Ideas to Recharge Your Leadership Battery

How are you? Need a break? What level is your “leadership battery” at? Fully charged.Good, but drained.Weak, probably need a jump start.Very little left; may need a...

The Once-a-month Churchgoers Are Becoming More Common

It is fascinating to watch the trends among congregations as they start to regather with COVID-19 beginning to fade. Some of the trends are...

7 Neuroscience Keys to Effective Performance Reviews

Annually in my first 35 years in ministry, I had spent hours preparing and delivering multiple staff performance reviews. I was shocked to learn that...

4 Reasons to Make Women’s Ministry a Top Priority In Your Church

Fall is on its way, so that means we’re about to dive in again to the rhythms of going back to school, sports, and...
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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...