A Design for Accepting Healthy Correction
Do you have difficulty accepting healthy correction without justification? This holistic design will help.
Malcolm Webber
Competencies
Articles in this category focus on how a Christian leader can build and nurture competencies and apply them practically in ministry life.
Malcolm Webber
Tool: Three Levels of Doctrine and Practice
A three-level framework for understanding the authority and importance of doctrine, conviction, and opinion.
Malcolm Webber
Becoming Kingdom Colonists
This excerpt from Whole-Life Generosity Devotional by GenerousChurch guides us to a more biblical understanding of our citizenship in heaven.
Skye Jethani
Everybody Has a Weakness
Everyone struggles with something and that’s okay – as long as we recognize that there is Someone much stronger than we are Who can help us overcome any sinful weakness or issue that we are dealing with if we allow Him to do it.
Dionna Sanchez
The 2 Things That Every Leader Must Do
To be effective a leader must delegate many responsibilities, as well as – whenever possible – the necessary decision-making authority. However, there are two critical areas that uniquely require the leader’s personal attention: vision and leader development.
Malcolm Webber
A Design for Stewarding Financial Resources
Do you have difficulty stewarding your financial resources? This holistic design will help.
Malcolm Webber
The Importance of Working with Resistance (from Understanding Change)
Efforts to implement change are more likely to succeed if a leader understands and responds well to resistance. An excerpt from Understanding Change, by Malcolm Webber.
Malcolm Webber
Jesus’ First Temptation, Part 1
Listen to our new episode of In the Word with Malcolm Webber.
Malcolm Webber
Model Brief: Seven Key Paradigm Shifts
How can we build Christian leaders who will turn the world upside down for Christ?
Malcolm Webber
Shaping a Culture of Generational Succession
How does generational transfer of life happen? And what hinders it? How can we build leaders with a long-term, multi-generational vision? This is the purpose, the vision and the hope of this brief course.
Malcolm Webber
Identifying Blind Spots and Hot Spots
When we look at ideas for future direction, who we are in relation to what we are looking into will influence what we see – and what we don’t see – how we do it and what conclusions we draw from it. This is because our subconscious assumptions, biases, filters and defence mechanisms create blind spots and hot spots.
Rick James
The Ideal Praise-To-Criticism Ratio That Triples Your Leadership Impact
While negative feedback can be destructive, it is an essential part of the mix. Here are three reasons why negative feedback matters.
Paul Sohn
Video: Leaders, Build Your Intercessory Team!
Effective focused intercessory prayer takes effort, but can mean the difference between success and failure for the leader.
Patty Katzer
Life as a Checklist
I love checklists. On my desk, I have task lists for the day and the week ahead. On my wall is my yearly calendar with medium to long term tasks. My mobile phone gets in on the act with notifications and reminders. I like checklists because they remind me of the things to do. When we […]
Dr. Stanley Arumugam
Dealing with My Stress and Burnout
In this time of COVID-19, many people are experiencing severe work stress and, for some, leading to burnout. It's easy to be deceived into accepting remote working as 'the new normal' as work without boundaries. This way of working is not sustainable.
Dr. Stanley Arumugam
Teaching from the Indwelling Life of Christ (from Transformational Teaching)
Teaching must be rooted in the life of Christ to be transformational. Dive deeper with this excerpt from Transformational Teaching, by Malcolm Webber.
Malcolm Webber
The One Thing to Do to Avoid a Crash when Making Decisions
Leaders are forever facing complex decisions that sometimes carry heavy consequences. Brent Hoover unpacks a singular strategy for approaching these decisions.
Brent Hoover
Less Is More
Every dialogue can be either a competition, or a bond of connection with another person.
Adrian Pei
10 Habits of Highly Effective Small Group Leaders
Steve Gladen, pastor of small groups at Saddleback Church for more than a decade, gives brilliant advice to take your small group to the next level. What makes a group system thrive? Definitely, strong leadership, welcoming groups, small group guidelines. Saddleback’s success from small groups comes from its focus on health. He balances [...]
Paul Sohn