Organizational and Cultural Trends
7 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2018
The culture continues to change rapidly around you as a leader, and especially as a church leader. If anything, the pace is accelerating, not slowing. The question is: are you and your team ready for all that’s ahead? For the…
The Top 10 Podcast Episodes of 2017, Determined By You
2017 was an incredible year of change, in the world, in the church and often, in your life. In this post, I share the Top 10 Leadership Podcast episodes of the year determined by downloads. It’s hard to beleive that…
9 Fresh Approaches to Innovation That Can Change Everything
So you think of yourself as an innovative leader. You just wish your church or the organization you’re a part of valued innovation more. How do you change the innovation game where you work? I was recently at a two-day…
5 Dangerous (And Faulty) Reasons That You’re Beginning To Feel Inadequate, Even Though You Aren’t
If you’ve led anything, you’re likely familiar with the feeling. You wonder whether you have what it takes. Maybe you even wonder how you got this job And you just don’t know if you can accomplish the responsibility you’ve been…
The Current American Tension and 4 Opportunities for the Church
You don’t need to be anything more than a casual observer of American (and Western) culture to know that something significant is happening. In the past few years, we’ve seen North America roiled by civil rights movements, a pandemic, natural…
7 Things Every Leader Should Know About Working With Millennials
I have a confession: I love working with Millennials. As a Gen Xer, that puts me at odds with more than a few other Gen Xers and Baby Boomers who love to complain about a lack of work ethic, poor grammar…
6 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2017
The culture continues to change rapidly around you as a church leader. You get that. And yet sometimes the change is easy to miss. Last January, I outlined 5 disruptive church trends that would dominate 2016. 2017 is no different.…
5 Things The Decline of Radio and TV Can Tell Us About the Future of the Church
When was the last time you sat down to watch a TV show (other than, say, a football game) when it aired live? And in the car, how often do you listen podcasts or your own playlists compared to the…
7 Counter-Cultural Opportunities Most Church Leaders Simply Miss
There’s likely little doubt left in your mind that culture is changing rapidly. Even in the Bible Belt, preachers are explicitly engaging an ever-more post-Christian culture (just check out some recent series by Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel). If you want to reach people outside the…
5 Ways Christians Can Approach The Rapidly Changing Moral Culture
Ever feel like the world you stepped into when you began in ministry no longer exists? You’re not alone. The culture around us is changing. You can debate when the collapse of Christendom in the West began, but there is…
Why Christians Should Let Non-Christians Off the Moral Hook
I feel like I need to get something off my chest. It bothers me that Christians continually express shock, disapproval, and judgment at the way non-Christians live. You’ve seen it, and maybe even done it: Doesn’t anyone believe in marriage…
The 10 Best Ways To DeMotivate the People You Work With
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…