Perspectives

Are you a visionary leader?

Sometimes it is difficult to implement visionary leadership into our day-to-day tasks. However, visionary leadership is biblical leadership.

Fred Noble

7 Bottlenecks a Leader Must Avoid

Leaders should aim to never be a bottleneck in the process of building a healthy and growing organization. Here are seven bottlenecks a leader must avoid.

Ron Edmondson

Reasons to Make Waves When Introducing Change

Though leaders are responsible for maintaining peace, it is also their job to occasionally be the architects of plans that disrupt status quo and complacency. If you want to affect change, consider these three reasons why you should first start by dropping a well-placed pebble in the pond.

Phil Wood

5 Roadblocks of Good Leadership

It’s the roadblocks in leadership which we can avoid that tend to be most damaging. They detract from growth and destroy organizational health. If they aren’t addressed, it can set some leaders back months, years, even an entire career.

Ron Edmondson

Re-Considering 2020 as ‘Pure Joy’? Seriously?

As our idols come into the light we may be better able to let them go. 2020 can lead us to an appreciation of life, restored relations with those around us, recognizing personal strengths we did not know we had and realization of new possibilities. Such post-traumatic growth can be considered as pure joy.

Rick James

6 Reasons Churches are Taking Too Long to Find a New Pastor

More and more churches are struggling because they are going longer periods of time without a pastor. So why are search committees and appointment processes taking so much longer? I see six clear reasons.

Thom S. Rainer

Rip Currents and Leadership

Leaders are constantly dealing with their own version of rip currents – unseen, powerful forces that will pull them away from where God is leading them and their church or ministry. The force may be direct opposition that comes from within or outside the organization. Or it may be the subtler temptation to take the easy path.

Mike Bonem

6 Ways Leading a Worship Team Is Like Leading a Church

Whether we’re leading the whole church or just the band, leadership requires our best selves and God’s amazing, Spirit-given grace.

Brian Thorstad

Biblical Values That Create Raving Fans

Satisfied “customers” – Despite the many books and blogs, conferences and coaches that offer opinions on this topic, this holy grail still eludes the grasp of most companies. Why? Perhaps, the most effective solution is not found in organizational leadership, but spiritual leadership. What we need is the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians [...]

Robert Netzly

The Strategic Nature of Cities and the Unreached at Our Doorstep

As YWAM Minneapolis began pondering their location, they realized that one base for the city is not enough and not even relevant to the needs that God has brought to their doorstep. God is bringing the fields of harvest to our doorstep.

Timothy Svoboda

7 Reminders About Workplace Leadership

Here are seven fundamental truths about God’s intention for the workplace.

Rob Streetman

10 Leadership Tendencies I’m Trying to Change

Here are some leadership traits I would need to change. What tendencies do you want to change?

Chuck Lawless

Should I Quit?

People often quit when they hit resistance. You might be discouraged and ready to give up. But should you?

Russell Moore

Movement and Progress Are Not the Same Thing

In the world that we live in and the culture that we breathe and consume, we easily equate two things that need to be kept separate – progress and movement.

David Appelt

God and Slavery: The Christian and Social Change

The shocking events of recent weeks have highlighted our nation’s troubling history with slavery and systemic racism. As a result, many Christians want to do something about racism. But what? What is the right response? What does the Bible really say about a Christian’s role in social change? You may have heard that the Bible [...]

Malcolm Webber

Leading up the Mountain of Change

"Change starts with commitment, but that's only the first step in a long climb."