You know how difficult church leadership can be. You work hard to reach people. Then you ask them to give meaningfully, volunteer their time, and invite their friends. And all the while, they’re volunteers. CEOs at least pay their team.…
“5 Unexpected Reasons Every Leader Should Be a Reader” is written by Joe Terrell, Carey Nieuwhof’s Content Manager and host of The Art of Leadership Daily podcast. Let me be honest. Anytime someone in authority says they “haven’t read a…
“4 Reasons Your Team is Quiet Quitting” is written by Carly Voinski, Carey’s Executive Assistant and Social Media Manager. Carly lives in New Jersey with her family, where she serves local ministries as a Worship Leader and spends too much…
Many Christians will treat sexual sin like it’s the worst of sins, but then gossip about sexual sin as though they did nothing wrong. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you think back on your leadership, gossip is…
Every once in a while, you hear a question you can’t get out of your head. A while back, I was listening to Sean Morgan’s interview with Ashley Wooldridge from Christ Church of the Valley. It was a great conversation…
“5 Essential Tips for Leading a Remote Team” is written by Jenni Catron. Jenni Catron is an author, speaker, and Founder and CEO of The 4Sight Group, where she and her team focus on cultivating healthy leaders and thriving team…
By now you’ve heard the number. According to a recent Barna poll, 42% of pastors have seriously thought about quitting ministry in the last year. As you can see from the graph below, that number has risen significantly, jumping from…
Ah, to be out of crisis. You thought it’d feel different as a leader, didn’t you? But as Craig Groeschel has aptly pointed out, leading out of crisis can prove more difficult than leading through crisis. If you’re like a…
As you’ve noticed—as everyone’s noticed—there seems to be something rotten in the Denmark of Christian leadership. Every time you think there can’t be another megachurch pastor who fails, well, there’s another megachurch pastor who fails. And those are the stories…
In a moment (or era) when so many people—especially young people—are deconstructing their faith, what do you do as a pastor or church leader? How do you even begin to respond? Recently, Joe Terrell wrote a brilliant and beautiful post…