Great Answers or Great Questions?
Four questions I love to ask, and three unexpected benefits that come with them.

Articles in this category focus on practical issues of how we build healthy leaders and lessons learned
Four questions I love to ask, and three unexpected benefits that come with them.
Ultimately, the Church will thrive because of people and not because of structures or ministry strategies!
Apart from leaders, organizations will only ever perpetuate themselves. However, either through or entirely apart from organizations, leaders can perpetuate divine vision.
Building leaders is the central activity of the effective organization. It is hard-wired into everything everyone does. It is everyone’s responsibility to nurture and expect leadership everywhere. This creates leadership multiplication.
Managers and leaders are different. What do we do with this information?
Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good (Titus 2:6-7a). Here are some ways to “jumpstart” that commitment.
How do you know when it is time to go? When is time to step back from ministry? Is there a good time to make a change?
This is good advice for all ages (and not just pastors), but the majority of questions I receive are from younger pastors. I’m not sure what it says about us older pastors but it has been true in my ministry that the younger a pastor is, the more willing to heed advice.
How to form Christians today is unclear. The challenge is that the basic patterns of life have shifted in an increasingly digital and networked world. The new patterns have not fully emerged, but the shifts are as profound as the move from farm to factory in earlier generations.
A video course on organizational leadership
A professor of spirituality and ministry discovers that trust grows when leaders notice and release their own agendas.
The Bible carries definite distinctions between leaders and managers. What does Scripture have to say about the differences?
Spiritual managers fill many vital roles as they manage an organization, none of which can be neglected.
Leaders and managers differ considerably in their approach to basic issues like direction and alignment. By understanding these differences, we can work together better for the kingdom of God.
Every significant moment in history was led by leaders who were committed to another way. Leaders who acted counter-culturally. Leaders who selflessly did what was right rather than what was popular or comfortable.
Almost every leader under 40 feels it – the constant stress, anxiety and uncertainty we’re all plagued by. Dr. Tim Elmore is a world-renowned expert on the issues facing today’s students and young adults. We dive into why so many young adults feel constant anxiety and uncertainty and how to deal with it, with strategies for young adults [...]
An effective leader development process is not a neat series of courses but a fiery immersion in real-life. How do we go about designing such a context?
Although we should aspire to train and build, my encouragement is that we continue to focus on building life in people and by doing so, we will end up transforming people in the long haul.
Anyone can do simple design, and we need to nurture the capacity of every leader (and believer) so that everyone does it.
Recently I ate a very nice dish when I was in Asia. It was a famous seafood dish for the region – one dish with many different ingredients. There were noodles, water, seafood, ginger, sugar, rice wine and other things. There were a lot of unique ingredients but they all went together to make one tasty dish. This is how to design [...]