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…
How do you know it’s time to move on? Brad Lomenick explains why he thinks many leaders stay on too long, and shares why he stepped back from leading a world class organization when he was just 40. Welcome to…
You tend to feel a lot of pressure when you’re a church leader. A key source of that pressure is that you’re leading a church. Your church is on a mission. Quite literally, it’s on a mission from God. And the terms…
How do you create a great leadership culture? Tim Stevens, author of Fairness is Overrated, talks about the essential elements every church leader needs to have in place in terms of personal integrity, finding the right team, building the right…
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…