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I recently had an interesting interaction with ChatGPT. As a thought experiment, I asked two separate contrasting questions about...

About three-thousand years ago, Israel was once again in a bad place. They had this pathological spiritual pattern: after having some big...

For those of us with perfectionistic personalities, the fear of making a mistake can be debilitating as a leader. But if we’re not...

Leadership by its nature makes one prone to take hits. Imagine how hard it is to be the U.S. president in these hyper-polarized...

Of the four essential elements that every leader must exercise—Integrity, Passion, Servanthood, and Imagination—Servanthood seems like it...

The present love affair with corporate mission statements must be more than a framed eight-by-twelve well-wordsmithed paragraph hung on a...

In the tribe that I pastored in, creating space for worship was very important. It typically meant the musical part of the service, where...

Yeah, I know, I know. It’s a tacky mashup of Pixar and Peanuts. But the point is: do we really need “church consultants”? I have to admit...

People can abuse power in a non-profit organization or on a church board, around a dinner table or in a street gang. Or in a marriage....

The Integrity value is one of four key elements we’ve identified as being absolutely essential for the health and effectiveness of any...

How about a video this week? In this quick 2½ minute video, Dave Workman offers the most important question the leader of a group must...

Leadership is crucial, but not all leaders are the same. Over the last few decades there has been an emphasis on church leadership, with...

Perspectives From A Pastor And Nonprofit Director I love pastors. Of course, I have to say that because I am one—but this time, I mean...

There are many things that Christians are doing in the postmodern era that are exemplary, often ignored by the media. For instance, the...

Over the years that we’ve worked with churches, it’s been our observation that of the four critical elements of healthy, effective...

I’m writing this on MLK Day. The non-violent protests for voting rights in the 1960’s, particularly in Alabama, had raised the ire of...

In our work with churches in assessing the four key elements of healthy organizations, the first one we typically look at is the...

Last week my wife and I were having dinner with our small group when someone brought up a sermon they heard that had originally been...

Some years back I noticed a man walking across a field near our house with a big labrador retriever running circles around him. The dog...

About 35 years ago, the Journal of Community Psychology featured a landmark article by David McMillan and David Chavis outlining four...