Does Anyone Hate Me?
There are many things that Christians are doing in the postmodern era that are exemplary, often ignored by the media. For instance, the...
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Mar 23, 20222 min read
What's Your Leadership Perspective?
I recently came across a fascinating geographical factoid. The writer at The Acadian Ideal overlayed the Mediterranean Sea map on top of...
Mar 1, 20222 min read
Leadership Under Fire
Pray for Ukraine. The recent Russian invasion of Ukraine has been overwhelmingly condemned by world leaders, baffled by Putin’s shocking...
Jan 17, 20223 min read
The Danger of Moderation
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...
Jan 5, 20223 min read
The Future, Funerals, and Mentoring? All in One Post...
At the start of a new year, rather than thinking about resolutions and future-thinking, I prefer to first mentally review the past year:...
Dec 14, 20212 min read
What Do Leaders Pray?
How do leaders pray? Or more specifically, what do leaders pray? If our ultimate leader in this Kingdom movement is Jesus, how and what...
Oct 27, 20212 min read
Jesus and The Really Big Idea
One day while working in Ephesus, the apostle Paul dictated a letter to a terrifically dysfunctional church he had founded earlier. In it...
Sep 22, 20212 min read
Are You More Important Than You Think?
“No one in my master’s house is more important than I am.” ~Joseph (Genesis 39:9a CEV). It seems the fall of prominent Christian leaders...
Sep 15, 20212 min read
Searching for Significance
In the decades that I’ve been following Jesus, I’ve met numbers of people who have questioned how they’ve spent their time after...
Aug 3, 20213 min read
How To Dream...
After years of working with churches, we’re finding that the Imagination element is typically the least exercised of the four critical...
Jul 16, 20212 min read
So What Does A Coach Do? Depends.
In my years of coaching pastors, I’ve found that the conversation will inevitably drift into one of three tracks that will determine what...
Jul 6, 20212 min read
Life After Pastoring...
I was recently invited on a podcast with William Vanderbloemen. I wasn’t completely sure what the interview was going to be about, but it...
Jun 3, 20213 min read
Are Leaders Born or Made?
Some years back I had lunch with a young man who had immigrated to America at fifteen to escape an abusive father and a broken family...
Apr 20, 20213 min read
To Creed or Not To Creed
Often in churches like the one I pastored years ago, we turned the mainstream view of “believe, then belong” upside down. That’s because...
Apr 7, 20212 min read
Conflict Avoidance = Innovation Killer
Decades ago, becoming a learning organization was a common call-to-action in organizational development circles. That is, it was...
Mar 31, 20211 min read
What's Wrong with Easter?
So how often do you get to tell the story of someone you know coming back from the dead? And not just sucking air again. Even Lazarus did...
Mar 24, 20212 min read
The Big Issue in Your Church
Before we begin, a quick reality check: all pastors struggle with leadership challenges. In a recent survey, over half U.S. pastors found...
Mar 10, 20212 min read
Deciding Your Course of Action
From the tribe of Issachar, there were two-hundred leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood the signs of the...
Feb 23, 20213 min read
The Power of Delegation: Part 1
Successful leadership of any organization is dependent on the ability to effectively delegate. Good delegation is a defining feature of...
Feb 8, 20213 min read
6 Principles for Giving Campaigns
Every church leader has to wrestle with the financial demands of ministry. The apostle Paul was bi-vocational as a tentmaker. But Acts...
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