Articles in this category focus on issues related to leading from union with the Father and building our spiritual life to increase our effectiveness as Christian leaders.
By checking in on the emotional health of her staff and creating spaces for celebration and hope in the midst of the heaviness, Ann stewards her relationships with her staff and their relationships with the patients they care for.
Kelsey McFaul
As we go into this week as well as a new year, let’s check our prayers to make sure we don’t care more about our prayers being answered than we do about being in Jesus’ presence.
Joshua Webber
Your mental health can determine your leadership effectiveness.
Sean Swaby
Workplaces that support employee mental health are progressive. But what about the mental health of the leaders?
Sean Swaby
How do you deal with disappointment? We need to grieve disappointment in a healthy way.
Dorothy Stewart
As healthy leaders, as we believe and live by faith and not sight, we progressively become who we already are … in Christ.
Nick Franks
Jesus models for us a letting go of control, earthly power, and reputation. He empties Himself at the cross, trusting in the goodness and love of the Father. God intends that we follow the same path. Yet, in situations both the large and small, we find this incredibly difficult. Why?
Pete Scazzero
God’s love hadn’t looked over the years how I expected it to, and this failed unspoken expectation had opened a door for me to believe a lie about God’s very character.
Abuk Cross
A lot of people are very fearful of trying to bring discernment into management decisions. But our own intellect may not be enough in making decisions.
Rick James
Leaders do not follow where the path may lead; they go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.
Malcolm Webber
If we want a different story to begin to unfold for us today, then we must understand two very important truths about our life with Christ. In this battle God secured the final victory, and God provides everything we need for daily victory.
Scott Rodin
Perhaps as a leader I should expect to learn from God more in the storms of life rather than in the peaceful, quiet times. What would you say, Mary?
Sven-Erik Fjellström
We, the church leaders, teach so many truths such as salvation, victorious Christian life, worship, prayer, evangelism, giving to the Lord etc., to our congregations, but do we teach them the fear of God?
Abraham Jebaveeran
Pastors and church leaders are on the front lines of the battle, where the smell of smoke, sweat, and blood always hangs in the air.
Brandon Cox
Jesus could have used any kind of power in His leadership, but He chose to be a servant.
Malcolm Webber
I am convinced that God has His dreams for our ministries, just as He has for us as individuals, and that He is willing to download them to us, at least in a “fuzzy” form.
Brian Thorstad
Hurry and noise and incessant busyness are enemies of a healthy spiritual life.
Charles Stone
Amid everything else Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age attempts to accomplish, at its base, it helps the spiritual leader see that our modern society has come to embrace “self-sufficient humanism.”
John Starke
The big deal Jesus made about gratefulness in the one leper (and the lack thereof in the nine), points to the high value He places on a grateful heart. I believe leaders above all should evidence a grateful heart. Evaluate your level of gratefulness against these three gratefulness indicators.
Charles Stone
Can you think of a time when you were quite simply overwhelmed with events and circumstances in your life? In this article, Nick Franks highlights two important principles from Scripture to encourage anyone currently in a season like this.
Nick Franks