Healthy Leaders – Page 65 – Be One. Build Many.

Acknowledging God in Your Biblical Leadership

God doesn’t impose on any leader the need to acknowledge Him as the source of their leadership abilities or gratitude for placing them in that position.

James Bruyn

7 Actions For When You Can’t Respect the Leader

An individual can continue to grow even with a leader he or she cannot respect – sometimes even more. Here are seven actions I suggest when you don’t respect the leader.

Ron Edmondson

Are Your Goals Harmful to Your Health?

When we focus on our goals instead of our health, if we reach the goal, we have sacrificed an area of health (spiritual, emotional, physical, or relational). If we seek health before goals, we reach our goals healthily.

Matthew Fretwell

6 Essential Identities of a Ministry Leader

As God’s people, our activity must be rooted in the identity He has graciously given us. Eric writes about six essential identities a ministry leader must have.

Eric Geiger

The Meaning of Foreknew

Dennis Fletcher

A Leader’s Real Power: Vulnerability

As a leader, I can't offer renewal for others unless I experience it myself.

Ritch Hochstetler

The Terrifying Danger of Falling off My Own Platform

There’s no shortage of answers, and in the wake of each pastoral scandal, all sorts of finger pointing ensues. Certainly, we could, and probably should, question our definitions of success or our defining ministry philosophies. My goal is much more meager.

Matt Rogers

Quiet Your Ego

It seems like a simple recipe. First, you quiet your ego. Then, you become a better learner. Finally, you emerge a better thinker. If you have ever witnessed a disaster being pulled from a smoking oven, you know that some recipes are more difficult to execute than others. The recipe for better thinking is one of those difficult recipes [...]

Paul Metler

Does God Really Care About Our Suffering?

Our heavenly Father is filled with compassion for His blood-bought children. He has more sympathy than any human parent. Our God is not stoic and unaffected, but is touched by our afflictions. And we can come to our Father and unburden our hearts to Him. He longs for us to do this and He is eager to help.

Mark Altrogge

What Leaders Need from Their Intercessors

The mistake many leaders make is to solicit people to serve as their people of prayer. Here are three reasons we feel that’s unwise.

Dr. Alice Smith

Faith Walk

Many don’t know what it’s like to live in a place with the smell of urine in the hallways, while your mother is in the house smoking crack and heroin, only focused on her next high. Many don’t know what it’s like sitting home, only having a jar of mayonnaise to eat, while your mother […]

Alex Anderson

Get In The Ring: Embracing Healthy Conflict In Your Team

I used to avoid conflict because it made me feel uncomfortable. Over the last few years I have chosen to embrace it and have seen how it could be one the biggest blessings for a team.

Gerhard Duvenhage

What Does God Want From Me?

1 Corinthians 10:13 says that “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.” In other words, you are not alone in the things you wrestle with, including the question of how to please God.

Steve Johnson

Challenging a Culture of Cynicism

Cynicism provides a way out of change — a response restating the issue, often humorously, and allowing for a sense of intellectual superiority before dismissing the issue out of hand. If we are honest, we must admit cynicism is quite often a cheap substitute for honest dialogue. What should we do about our cynicism?

David Goodman

Eight of the Most Common Worship Leading Mistakes

Here are eight of the most common worship leading mistakes that I’ve observed in my own ministry, and through friendships and experiences with lots of other worship leaders too.

Jamie Brown

One Thing

What is the one thing that is making us get stuck as leaders or organizations? Is it pride, ego, mistrust, poor communication, visionless leadership, or leadership style? Once we focus on that one thing, we may get moving again and reach our destination.

Jonathan Mbuna