Be one. Build many.
Tim Walburg Recommitting to the Call
If you feel that this is the place God wants you to be at the moment, recommit yourself to your role and thank Him for being there for you. If not, ask God where He wants you to be.
Elaine Vitikainen
4 Ways to Develop Bible Skills for Kids
If we wish to train up children who walk closely with God as they grow into adults, we must influence them to read and reference the Bible.
Eric Geiger
What Does It Mean to Be a Life-Giving Leader
We are experiencing a new day that requires a new kind of leader. This new kind of leader is life-giving.
Tim Elmore
Assumptions Ministry Leaders Make About Ownership
Many Christian workers make the mistake of assuming that they are earning shares in the ministries they work for through their hard work and dedication. It seems logical. God is the sole owner of the church. Always has been. Always will be. He paid for it with the priceless blood of Christ.
Brian Thorstad
A Simple but Incredible Way to Reach Your Community and Grow
Tom’s church tried a unique way of reaching out to their church’s community. We gave each of our members attending a loaf of bread and asked them to give the bread to someone in their neighborhood or community.
Thom S. Rainer
Surviving Feedback From Friends
Too often we ask for feedback when all we really want is praise. Give yourself time to get feedback from others and inspiration from the Holy Spirit through prayer and study.
Michael Voll
8 Tips for Developing Your Workplace Culture
Here are eight important qualities that define organizations with a strong culture.
Fred Noble
What I Wish I Had Known 20 Years Ago as a Pastor
If you are just starting out in ministry, here are five key lessons Charles Stone learned over the last 20 years as a pastor.
Charles Stone
7 Essential Questions for Leadership Focus
These seven questions will help you set yourself on a path to which the Spirit can both hold you to and accompany you on. As you ponder these questions, do so with your spirit open and obedient to God’s.
Ralph Mayhew
A Simple Way to Increase God’s Joy in Your Life
Cultivate the habit of praising and thanking the Lord at all times and letting His praise be continually in your mouth and you will see His joy increase in your life.
Mark Altrogge
The Art of the Second Question
When you ask shallow questions, you get shallow answers. When you ask profound questions, you get profound answers.
Rodney Duttweiler
Leadership Transparency: 4 Ways to Build It
Leadership transparency can build or break trust. Without trust, leadership suffers.
Charles Stone
3 Advantages of Choosing a Target Group
The process of talking and praying about focus groups is challenging, but it is a discussion that can result in good things for God’s glory and Christ’s Gospel.
Brian Thorstad
Church is a Leadership Factory
The church ought to see itself as a leadership factory that stirs up the gifts of God in people, not an auditorium that gathers people behind a leader.
J.D. Greear
What Character Is Not
To help define what character is, we should also examine what it is not.
Malcolm Webber
The Biggest Way People on Your Team Know You Value Them
How can a leader let each person on the team know they are valued? When people you serve sense that you are responding specifically to them they know they are valued. Here are four ways leaders should respond to each person on the team.
Eric Geiger
9 Mistakes Leaders Make
I know no leader who says up front, “It’s likely I’ll commit the same sins I see leaders in the Scripture commit.” I do know several leaders, however, who would say, “I never thought it would happen to me – but it did.”
Chuck Lawless