A Bit of Advice on Giving Advice
Giving advice is rarely as useful as listening. It’s never as powerful as a great question.
Suzi McAlpine
Competencies
Articles in this category focus on how a Christian leader can build and nurture competencies and apply them practically in ministry life.
Suzi McAlpine
Leadership and Power (from Abusive Leadership)
Abusive leaders and servant leaders relate to power differently. Find out more in this brief excerpt from Abusive Leadership by Malcolm Webber.
Malcolm Webber
Joyful Movement
We tend to act on things that bring us temporary joy in the moment, rather than things that are momentarily painful but bring lasting joy.
Brent Hoover
Facilitating With Grace
Ephesians 4:2 says, "Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love." How can we have grace with the unexpected disturbances in our work?
Elaine Vitikainen
5 Steps for Leading Change
In leading through various seasons of change, here are five steps I encourage you to consider in whatever change you’re facing.
Jenni Catron
5 Signs You’re a Leader Who Talks Too Much
Unfortunately, leaders can talk too much, not necessarily by monopolizing conversations, but by giving too many answers. So, how do you know if you are a leader who talks too much and what can we do to stop?
Charles Stone
The Three Horizons
The effective leader will focus on three time horizons simultaneously: 1. Cultivating current responsibilities, extending and defending the core existing ministries. 2. Tending and nurturing emerging ideas, strategies, and processes. 3. Planting seeds for tomorrow. This pattern encompasses the mature, emergent, and embryonic phases of an [...]
Malcolm Webber
6 Steps to Being Intentional
Demands for our time seem to clamor endlessly. When was the last time you had a peaceful moment when you were not thinking about that next thing to do? Usually the decision to commit to too many things is because we can’t seem to say “no.” How do you say “no” in these busy times? Is “no” being selfish, or is “yes” being selfish when you [...]
Julie Sunne
Six Lessons in Good Listening
Good listening is a great means of grace in the dynamic of true Christian fellowship. Not only is it a channel through which God continues to pour his grace into our lives, but it’s also his way of using us as his means of grace in the lives of others. It may be one of the hardest things we learn to do, but we will find it worth every [...]
David Mathis
A Design for Accepting Healthy Correction
Do you have difficulty accepting healthy correction without justification? This holistic design will help.
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