What I Wish I Had Known 20 Years Ago as a Pastor
If you are just starting out in ministry, here are five key lessons Charles Stone learned over the last 20 years as a pastor.
Charles Stone
Leaders
Charles Stone
7 Essential Questions for Leadership Focus
These seven questions will help you set yourself on a path to which the Spirit can both hold you to and accompany you on. As you ponder these questions, do so with your spirit open and obedient to God’s.
Ralph Mayhew
A Simple Way to Increase God’s Joy in Your Life
Cultivate the habit of praising and thanking the Lord at all times and letting His praise be continually in your mouth and you will see His joy increase in your life.
Mark Altrogge
The Art of the Second Question
When you ask shallow questions, you get shallow answers. When you ask profound questions, you get profound answers.
Rodney Duttweiler
Leadership Transparency: 4 Ways to Build It
Leadership transparency can build or break trust. Without trust, leadership suffers.
Charles Stone
What Character Is Not
To help define what character is, we should also examine what it is not.
Malcolm Webber
The Biggest Way People on Your Team Know You Value Them
How can a leader let each person on the team know they are valued? When people you serve sense that you are responding specifically to them they know they are valued. Here are four ways leaders should respond to each person on the team.
Eric Geiger
9 Mistakes Leaders Make
I know no leader who says up front, “It’s likely I’ll commit the same sins I see leaders in the Scripture commit.” I do know several leaders, however, who would say, “I never thought it would happen to me – but it did.”
Chuck Lawless
How to Rejoice Under Dark, Dark Clouds
For those of us who do know Jesus, be glad and sing praises, like Matthew Henry or Paul and Silas, no matter what’s happening “down here” in our lives. Remember, the sun is always shining above the clouds, and the steadfast love of our God will never cease.
Mark Altrogge
Are You Wise with Your Buckets of Influence?
Good leaders know when to use the right bucket. The most important thing for you to do as a leader is to use your influence to promote fairness, lawfulness, peace, empathy and real prosperity for everyone.
Mike Mowery
3 Steps to Bring Servant Leadership Into Your Home
We must apply servant leadership not only at work, but – equally ‒ inside of our own homes. We must make that dual investment. You can become more intentional about leading Jesus’ way within your own family. And you can have fun doing it!
Mark Deterding
Collaborating with a Tentative and Open Mind
I’ve learned that if we go into any collaboration with an open mind, even tentatively, this can be both more fulfilling and productive. It results in better relationships and genuinely shared ownership of outcomes.
Doreen Kwarimpa-Atim
Vince Miller Competencies Aren’t Just Knowledge, They Are the Ability to Use It Well
It is absolutely necessary that a leader have strong competencies.
Malcolm Webber
Elaine Vitikainen Joyful Obedience
Joyful obedience looks like growing in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Ben Marshall
You’re Doing the Work, but Do You Love Jesus?
It’s not enough to serve the Lord, we must love Him. As it says in Matthew 22: And one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question to test Him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart […]
Mark Altrogge
13 Questions to Discover Your Management Blind Spots
Every leader has a blind spot or two, or more. God is aware of our blind spots. He knows our weaknesses and vulnerabilities far more deeply than we do. This process cannot be achieved apart from the assistance of trusted friends and mentors who love us and love God.
Ralph Mayhew
Why Jesus Let People Walk Away
In John 6, Jesus is being chased around the Sea of Galilee by a large crowd. He’s healed terrible diseases, fed thousands with a few loaves and fishes, and taught with great authority. Things were going so well the crowd was planning to make Him king by force. In modern language, Jesus was a rock […]
Matthew Rohrs
Authentically Counterproductive
We hear so much about being an “authentic” leader. I believe fully in authenticity. You must lead from who you are; at the same time, authenticity does not give you permission to be a jerk. The most productive leader leads from strengths and dials back those tendencies to react poorly. This week’s question: When might [...]
Corey Olynik