Clamoring for Culture
I deeply believe that the culture of your organization matters. The environment you create in your organization is either attracting or repelling. And as leaders, we set the tone for the culture.
Jenni Catron
Community
Articles in this category focus on rejoicing in the community of other believers, how to build and nurture community, and how to better reflect Jesus Christ to our brothers and sisters in the faith.
Jenni Catron
Have We Lost the Vision for Reaching Our Community?
Reach out to your community and live. Or, neglect it and die. It’s really that simple.
Thom S. Rainer
12 Questions to Ask Ourselves in Conflict
Remember, it’s not about winning or being right; it’s about God’s glory.
Mark Altrogge
Across the Street; Across the Ocean
How do we reach across cultural divides? How can we really listen?
Jim Brenneman
What Mac & Cheese Taught Me About the Needs of Others
A very successful businessman inadvertently taught me a lesson about paying attention to other people’s needs … with macaroni and cheese.
Charles Stone
How to Be Joyful in Your Leadership
As a biblical leader, I choose to model joy for the people I lead. By choosing to model joy, I hope my colleagues can see “work” and “vocation” as synonyms for joy.
James Bruyn
Is Your Leadership More Than Words?
If you want to be the kind of leader whose organization is on the cutting edge, stop asking for someone to give you an answer you already know. Great leaders have the courage to act!
Mike Mowery
How Devotionals Almost Broke Up My Marriage
Being a leader approved by God is different from being a leader put in a position by God. Sometimes, when God is training a spiritual leader, He will let us fall on our faces because we can see Him better from that position.
Jess MacCallum
The Church’s Dirty Little Secret
Immature believers abound, and that’s all right. Babies must complete all stages of development before they achieve maturity. But we should never put an infant in a place of leadership. Leaders must be adults in the faith if they are to be role models and examples to those coming after.
Joe McKeever
A Simple but Incredible Way to Reach Your Community and Grow
Tom’s church tried a unique way of reaching out to their church’s community. We gave each of our members attending a loaf of bread and asked them to give the bread to someone in their neighborhood or community.
Thom S. Rainer
Surviving Feedback From Friends
Too often we ask for feedback when all we really want is praise. Give yourself time to get feedback from others and inspiration from the Holy Spirit through prayer and study.
Michael Voll
8 Tips for Developing Your Workplace Culture
Here are eight important qualities that define organizations with a strong culture.
Fred Noble
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
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
Leaders Need Community
No healthy leader will ever be built in a vacuum. Even the hottest embers grow cold in isolation.
Malcolm Webber
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
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 
Elaine Vitikainen Healthy Leaders Choose Accountability
The task of Christian leadership comes with high standards – the highest, we would hope! Therefore, every emerging leader must learn to choose accountability.
Malcolm Webber