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If you are considering a transition in your personal ministry, stop and reflect on these eight questions before you move forward to ensure that...
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In a previous post I discussed how ministry stress can sometimes make pastors feel like zombies: listless, unmotivated, and mentally distracted. Many of you took the...
The Taxing Consequences of Constant Urgency for Pastors and Church Leaders
“Pastor, I’ve got to show you something.” Sunday mornings come with various tasks, but I could tell by his tone that I needed to...
Getting to Know You: Questions and Answers with Kathi Holcomb
Kathi’s Bio: My name is Kathi Holcomb, and I am the proud wife of Barry Holcomb, a grateful mom to Nathan and Abigail, and mom-in-law...
7 Practical Skills of the Best Coaches
Very few people can climb to the top of the mountain alone. They need a guide and individual training. In fact, if the mountain...
How Chronic Stress Affects Leadership
Our brains play a vital role in effective leadership (duh!). That’s pretty self-evident. Yet, this often overlooked brain fact profoundly reduces leadership effectiveness – chronic...
7 Mistakes Some Young Leaders and Pastors—and Older Ones, Too—make
I’ve been a seminary professor for 26+ years, and I’ve mentored young leaders and pastors most of those years. I’ve watched young leaders do...
Leadership Is an Endurance Sport
People regularly ask me why I continue to participate in endurance sports. These endurance sports range from half marathons, to biking, and more. Endurance...
10 Telltale Signs of Bad Church Leadership
The vast majority of church leaders get into leadership with good motives.
If that’s the case, then why do so many people end up leaving...
The #1 Most Advantageous Leadership Trait I Observed In 2022
2020 was a year of crisis.2021 was a year of adaptation.2022 was a year of transition.
2023 will be a year of where we can...
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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...
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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...
