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Thinking Too Highly of Our Leaders

Do we need to re-humanize the leaders and spokespeople in our lives?

3 Ways to Develop Contextual Leadership

Leadership is contextual. You can learn a lot from renowned leaders inside and outside the church but not everything they teach will automatically translate to your context.

Joe Hoagland

Who Me? A Servant?

Freedom is the foundation for servanthood. We are free but we can make the conscious choice to use our freedom to serve others because we are following the example of Jesus, and because we believe that the best kind of leadership in this turbulent world is the kind of leadership that rises above the temptation to “lord it over” others.

Mike Mowery

3 Ways to Develop Contextual Leadership

Leadership is contextual. You can learn a lot from renowned leaders inside and outside the church but not everything they teach will automatically translate to your context.

Joe Hoagland

Learning from Peers

We often learn more from peers than from any formal training processes.

Rick James

I’m Allowed to Change Slowly, but You Must Change Fast. Really Fast.

Yes, it’s hard to wait for others to change. But if God patiently waits for us to change, we can also wait for others.

Stephen Altrogge

6 Ways to Lead Your Team Through Turbulent Times

How you handle hard times will set the tone for how your team handles those same hard times. If you’re running around like a headless chicken, or acting like a sulky toddler who missed out on their favorite ice cream, people will consider the way you are leading – and then they will quickly follow suit.

Suzi McAlpine

Simple Kindness

Let’s spread more kindness this year, without expecting anything in return. This week let’s commit ourselves to a simple act of kindness each day at our workplace.

Elaine Vitikainen

Putting the “We” in Leadership

Watch your pronouns. It might just make you a better leader!

Mike Mowery

Not Ashamed of the Gospel

Awkwardness in evangelism, and indeed no evangelism at all, is because we desperately need to re-examine how we do life as followers of Yeshua.

Nick Franks

Stop Complaining, Start Engaging

Pastors may lead the church as shepherds, but they are not the owners. They are not the only ones who will be held responsible for the condition of the church. That’s on us all.

Tyler Edwards

Peace Within and Around

With God’s grace, we can be at peace wherever we are.

Priya Ashvita Raj Kumar

8 Questions to Help Your Church Focus Its Outreach

The church’s leadership team worked through the delicate discussion of whether to choose a target demographic group to focus on reaching for Christ. Here are eight questions a leadership team can ask to discover their target group.

Brian Thorstad

We Need to Learn Empathy!

Studies have linked empathy to greater patient satisfaction, better outcomes, decreased physician burnout, and a lower risk of malpractice suits and errors. Doctors need to understand people, not just science, and healthy leaders need to cultivate empathy in order to affect the lives of those around them.

Malcolm Webber

Building a Connected Prayer Army

During this crisis that forces isolation, we must make sure to look beyond our quasi-connection with millions of people. Let’s make a real effort to foster a few strong individual connections. May God lead to safely help others without contributing to the transmission of the disease. Instead we want to let God lead us to contribute to [...]

Jim Brenneman