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...
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...
3 Virtuous Traits In a Leader — That Make Us Want to Follow
Why do you follow the leaders you choose to follow? The key word in that question is “choose.” We all make a deliberate choice...
6 Dangers of Self-appointed Leaders
Malcolm Webber is one of my favorite leaders of leaders. With a PhD and over 20 books on leadership to his credit, he insightfully describes...
Resilience: 5 Signs You’re a “bounce Back” Leader
Inevitably all leaders face disappointment, setbacks, and difficulty in their roles. As a pastor, I’ve faced my share at times: significant budget deficits, losing crucial staff members,...
6 Reasons Empathy Is Powerful In Leadership
Being in an organization where the leader is unable to understand or share the feelings of an employee is destructive to the employee. And...
Why You Need to Hire an Executive Pastor In 2024
Every church is in constant pursuit of its dream team - joyful conflict resolution, efficient operations and attitudes, and trustworthy stewardship of life and...
Nuances for Delivering Short Powerful Funeral Sermons (with Examples)
Preaching a funeral sermon for the first time?
Let me guess. No seminary class prepared you to step into the reality of a grieving family...
What Is Expository Preaching? Four Different Approaches to Hone Your Sermon Prep.
You’ve probably heard of expository preaching …and exegetical preaching …and topical preaching. If you’re looking for clarity on how these differ from each other,...
3 Essential Practices for New Christians
Christmas services will soon be here and we’ll be communicating the message of salvation through Christ. That IS good news.
And the great prayer of...
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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...
Ai and Church Answers: Full Disclosure
Note: This article is original. None of it is AI-generated. (You will understand why I led with this disclaimer later in the article.)
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