Words matter when you’re a leader, and not all words are equally useful. In fact, you should banish at least three from your leadership vocabulary. Nobody wins when you use these words regularly, and they might be damaging your leadership without…
In 2003, Joshua Whitehead left the business world to start serving at Faith Promise Church. Since 2005, he’s served as Executive Pastor and has seen the church grow to 5 locations and 6,800 people. Josh and I talk about why so many…
Church on the Move in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is known for innovation. It’s also about to undergo a significant leadership transition. Today I talk with the driving force behind much of the creative innovation at the church in the last decade,…
If you want to become a better leader (and who doesn’t?), the key is simple: learn to ask better questions. I wish I knew that 25 years ago when I started. I thought leadership was about giving answers, not asking…
Leading a turnaround church is tough. Leading it after the previous leader experienced moral failure is even harder. Doing it all at age 29 makes the story remarkable. Brent Ingersoll stepped directly from student ministry into the senior leader’s chair…
As a leader, people are always anxious to figure out who you really are. It’s understandable. A leader’s primary commodity is trust. People follow leaders they trust. Violate that trust, and people stop following you. Many leaders talk a good game. And that’s…
Emotions. Some days you probably think it would be better if you could lead without them. You get excited about a new idea only to become discouraged when no one else thinks it’s a great idea…or it doesn’t work. As…
Every week you hope to have new people at your church. But there’s a world of difference between reaching the unchurched and attracting serial church shoppers. While it’s easy to think of a visitor as simply a ‘visitor,’ not all visitors…
Is telling others about Jesus an act of extremism? What about waiting for marriage to have sex? David Kinnaman, author, speaker and President of Barna Research, joins us with some shocking findings on what unchurched people really think about Christians…
Of all the dynamics you handle as a leader, leading people is by far the most challenging. Very few leaders I know actively set out to discourage their team, yet all of us do it—most often unintentionally. There’s an edge…
Leading change is hard, but Rob Cizek has navigated those waters successfully. Rob sits down with Carey and shares a practical step-by-step approach to leading organizational change that will maximize buy in and minimize opposition. Welcome to Episode 81 of the…
Ever wonder what might happen if you actually went for it? Did what you always felt called to do but were too afraid to? I hope you wonder what might happen. If there’s one thing the church in the West needs…