Articles in this category focus on practical issues of how we build healthy leaders and lessons learned
God has wired us with intrinsic power to explore new avenues and to venture out, trusting Him who alone is omniscient and omnipresent. Perhaps we should reach out beyond the closed walls and the locked screens and start sharing our questions and hopes freely with those who journey along with us. With God we will make it through these [...]
Dr. Jessy Thomas
Followers possess extraordinary power. Here’s how they can use it.
Malcolm Webber
This was the kind of leadership Jesus taught and modeled to His disciples: a leadership born of brokenness, produced in pain, forged in the fire of suffering.
Malcolm Webber
A great alternative for older pastors is the ministry once known as “interim pastorate.” Whatever you call this position, the interim pastorate isn’t what it used to be. Increasing numbers of interim or transitional pastors are now deliberately using the “in between time” in churches as a great opportunity to bring about congregational [...]
Brian Thorstad
Jesus’ purpose is to build His Church. That must be our purpose: to work in the building of His Church.
Malcolm Webber
Don’t start big. Start small. Concentrate on one bite of the elephant at a time.
Ron Edmondson
An organization has three primary stages of its life cycle, and leaders are responsible to focus on all of them.
Malcolm Webber
This is the kind of advice that sounds good on paper, but when the rubber meets the road, it can be scary. The only thing that’s scarier would be for a generation of high-potential leaders to walk away from an inflexible church.
Mike Bonem
No leader will ever be perfect, but every leader must be growing.
Malcolm Webber
It seems counterintuitive, but the more you replicate yourself, the greater your job security.
Justin Rizzo
We limit our thinking when we assume that staff are simply motivated by external rewards. Research reveals a different reality.
Elaine Vitikainen
Sometimes we have to look at things on a deeper, heart level and understand why people and situations are the way they are. Even why we are the way we are, and what we might need to change.
Adrian Pei
Jesus built leaders who were “with Him.” He did not do it at a distance; He did it closely, He did it personally. He did it properly.
Malcolm Webber
For most people, programs will not automatically transform them into superior leaders, as if they were butterflies emerging from cocoons. We should spend more time on accurately identifying which ones we should work with.
Malcolm Webber
The teaching of the Word of God was central in Jesus’ method of building leaders, and it must be in ours.
Malcolm Webber
I love thinking about leadership through the lens of belaying. Belaying is something I hated to do when I first began to ice climb. I felt inadequate and unfit to hold someone’s life in my hands. But what can this experience of belaying teach you about leadership? Let’s take a look.
Joseph Lalonde
There are three kinds of leaders, but only one is truly effective.
Malcolm Webber
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.
Chuck Lawless
Jesus challenged and engaged His learners. We must learn to do this too.
Malcolm Webber
Dave Odom