The Silence Test
Want to know how you’re really doing? Sit in silence. Sit silently for at least 10 minutes – even an hour if you can handle it. More and more, I’m learning that silence reveals what’s really happening inside me. Whenever…
Carey Nieuwhof
Carey Nieuwhof is a best-selling leadership author, speaker, podcaster, former attorney, and church planter. He hosts one of today’s most influential leadership podcasts, and his online content is accessed by leaders over 1.5 million times a month. He speaks to leaders around the world about leadership, change, and personal growth.
What to Do When Your Passion Fades
Most of us would love passion to fuel our life and work every day. That’s always how it starts, right? When you begin something, it’s pretty much all passion. Whether you’ve felt a call into ministry, you’re starting a new…
Elephant Room Insights
I was at Elephant Room this week, a forum hosted by Harvest Bible Chapel for pastors and church leaders. The best part for me was the honesty, candour and wisdom shared by the panel: James MacDonald, Mark Driscoll, Steven Furtick, Jack…
Is there Balance in Greatness?
I finished the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson a few months ago. Not only is it one of the few books I actually wished was thousands of pages longer than it actually was (I LOVED it), it offered fascinating insight into…
Focus on One Big Thing
The problem with most of us is not that we don’t dream big enough, it’s that our dreams and goals get lost in the shuffle each working day. The biggest casualty of the daily grind, surprisingly, is not your inboxes…
Solitude vs. Isolation
More than ever before, I enjoy being alone… but there’s a world of difference between solitude and isolation. It’s easy to miss the difference because, on the surface, they look the same. You’re by yourself. But that’s where the similarities…
If You Don't Take the Sabbath, the Sabbath will Take You
“It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones.” Psalm 127.2 Most ministry leaders I meet are tired. I had this…
I Wish God….
I need your help. I know you’ve thought about this. Doesn’t matter how strong your faith is, you wish some things were different. In fact, you wish God were different. I’m writing a message series for the summer (or fall) of…
11 Ways to Bring Your Best to the Table
What you and I should bring to the table every day is our best. There are some people who can solve a crisis in a moment that others couldn’t solve in a millenium. There are some people who are constantly…
Why I Dislike Easter (and Good Friday and Christmas)
So we get ready to celebrate the greatest moment in human history (Easter), and I’m worked up about it. It’s not that I dislike Good Friday, Easter and Christmas themselves. I love what they’re about. But as a lead pastor,…
Is Christianity Becoming Extinct?
This study profiled by CNN last week suggests religion might be extinct in Canada within 100 years. More and more people are affiliating themselves with the category called “unaffiliated”, which I think is the technical term for ‘no thanks’ when…
Five Questions about Confession
Confession is a lost art. Blame? Not so much. I find that there’s a link between how well I confess and how often I blame others and justify myself. Avoiding confession allows me to think the fault lies with someone…