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3 Dangerous Lies That Tempt Leaders
I’ve observed explosive lies beneath the surface bring devastating fallout to friends, family, ministries, and a watching world. Here are three of those lies.
Eric Geiger
8 Ways Older Believers Can Invest In Younger Believers
Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good (Titus 2:6-7a). Here are some ways to “jumpstart” that commitment.
Chuck Lawless
8 Benefits of Silence and Solitude in a Leader’s Life
Hurry and noise and incessant busyness are enemies of a healthy spiritual life.
Charles Stone
Don’t Just Fill the Bucket – Engage Your Leaders!
Jesus challenged and engaged His learners. We must learn to do this too.
Malcolm Webber
Distinguishing a Boss from a Leader
Being a leader doesn’t mean you allow poor quality of work to prevail. There are times a leader has to micromanage. We need good systems and processes.
Ron Edmondson
Dennis Fletcher Hard Advice for Young Leaders
I want you to have responsibility and authority. I want you to be fully rewarded and recognized for your contribution to society. I also want you to realize, however, that most things of lasting value take time and discipline to achieve.
Ron Edmondson
How to Turn Passive Followers into Passionate Leaders
What follows are the leadership development gems that Jesus used when turning a passive group of followers into passionate leaders.
Ralph Mayhew
People Learn by Doing, and Your Emerging Leaders Are No Exception
Your leaders will always learn best by doing. Building them requires both instruction and practical, “hands-on” ministry.
Malcolm Webber
How to Preach to the Secular Age
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
12 Questions to Ask Ourselves in Conflict
Remember, it’s not about winning or being right; it’s about God’s glory.
Mark Altrogge
4 Ways Great Churches Keep It Simple
Simplicity brings with it focus, energy, clarity, understanding and power. Is it easy to get to this level of simplicity? Definitely not. It is excruciatingly difficult and totally worthwhile.
Brian Thorstad
7 Ways to Make Strategic Decisions Quickly
Strategic decisions are a discipline and a practice; but leaders, the better decisions we make, the better our organizations will be. Let’s be strategic.
Ron Edmondson
5 Ways to Build Leaders in the Classroom
Most leader development occurs outside the classroom. But there are some specific things that can be done effectively in the classroom.
Malcolm Webber
If You Are Not Faithful With Little …
Jesus taught “Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much” (Luke 16:10). Those who are not faithful in the important aspects of leadership now likely won’t be later.
Eric Geiger
Are You a Grateful Leader?
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
Tim Walburg Five Limitations of Church Programs
Let’s consider five limitations of church programs so that we don’t treat these programs as if they’re simple formulas for producing mature disciples of Jesus.
Paul Alexander