Every leader battles their nerves. By nature, leadership is going to require you to do things that push you past your comfort zone pretty much every day. And in seasons leadership will push you further than you’ve ever gone. You’re…
There’s a lot of church bashing that happens these days. I get that. Some of it is deserved. Like me, maybe you’ve noticed that a lot of people feel justified in dismissing the church as anything between a complete disappointment…
How do you handle growth when it comes your way? What do you need to do with staff, structure and scale as your church grows? From record industry executive, to executive leadership at Cross Point Church and Menlo Park Presbyterian…
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.…
This is a guest post from Mark Riggins. Mark is the Community Life Pastor at ENCOUNTER | Bible Fellowship Church in Ventura, CA. His new book STUCK When You Want to Forgive but Don’t Know How is available now on Amazon. Sign-up HERE for a…
What does it mean to be the church in a post-Christian culture? And why are more and more American Christians becoming churchless? David Kinnaman, President of Barna Research Group, talks about why Americans are becoming churchless more quickly than ever…
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…
One trend almost every church leader is talking about today: people who attend church are attending less often. This podcast episode is the second part of a 5 part series on why people are attending church less often. Part 1: 10 Reasons…
Sometimes progress in life can be tough to measure. You might feel stuck right now. Or just the opposite—you might feel like you’re making incredible progress. But are you? How would you know? Of all the areas in which I want to…
So you were in love. And then life and leadership happened, jeopardizing, and sometimes even killing, almost everything you once valued in each other. Justin and Trisha Davis honestly and candidly share how their marriage fell apart, and—more important—how God rebuilt…
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,…
Momentum is such a difficult thing to gain and such an easy thing to lose. What happens if you don’t have it? Can you regain it? And can you regain it quickly? Brian Dodd explains the 10 steps he used…