You’ve heard it said here more than a few times, you are the hardest person you will ever have to lead. How do I know that? Because I’m the hardest person I have to lead. It was 20 years ago…
Remember report card time? It always freaked me out a bit. Teachers would get to evaluate my life and tell me how well I was doing (or not doing). I always had a love/hate relationship with report cards. I loved them…
Want to know what might be holding back your leadership? Fear. Most leaders I talk to struggle with fear in one measure or another. Fear can be so difficult to wrestle down until you realize how fatal fear is to leadership.…
There’s an urgent question many church leaders are asking as we all try to figure out how to respond as people who attend church now attend less often. The question is this: How do you interact with infrequent church attendees who…
Change is an issue you actually face daily. I don’t mean to imply that you’re actually changing everyday, I just mean you’re facing change. You’re either leading change resisting change avoiding change fearing change mishandling change (don’t like this one either,…
So are the Pharisees running your church? Interesting question. How would you know? And perhaps, more appropriately, how would you know if that was you? You could argue that the since the religious leaders nailed Jesus to the cross, there’s no…
Very few leaders go into church leadership as pastors, staff, board members or volunteers hoping to be ineffective. And yet so many churches and church leaders end up that way—ineffective. You might be stuck in a church like that right…
So you probably want people to like you. Who doesn’t? Often when people say they don’t care whether people like them, it’s because they used to care whether people like them, but they got burned and as a result have become a bit…
There’s a single word every true leader uses regularly, that far too many leaders abandon early into their leadership. In fact, the more successful you become, the more tempted you will be to abandon it. Others abandon it too. Leaders…
The issue of spiritual maturity seems to provoke one of the super strange conversations in the North American and Western church today. Here’s the bizarre part: some Christians end up criticizing other Christians for not being ‘deep’ enough or committed enough to…
Happy January! So…what conversations are you planning on having with your team this year? One of the things I love about a new year is the Top 10 lists that help us look reflect back and plan ahead. They can…
Everything has its season. And the season of the cool church is, in many ways, coming to an end. There was an era when simply being a cooler church than the church down the road helped churches reach unchurched people. There…