Leadership – Page 3 – Healthy Leaders

Know Your Impact

None of us can forget that we aren’t just the list of tasks we do, we are the collective difference we make for those we serve.

Corey Olynik

The Story of the Little Swallow

This is a precious story written by an Asian leader during a time of deep trial and brokenness in her life.

LeaderSource Team Member

Why Many Christians Are Deceived – Video

David Platt discusses why many Christians are deceived.

David Platt

Three Kinds of People that Fill Every Church

In the Leadership Labyrinth, Judson Edwards describes 21 paradoxes in ministry. He defines the “relationship paradox” in this way: the people who like you most will be the ones you try least to please. He writes that three kinds of people fill every church. Would you agree with his assessment?

Charles Stone

Three Things You Should Communicate to Your Leader

What should you communicate to your leader, to your boss? What needs to be shared with your leader to help him/her understand the area you are leading and stewarding? Here are three things you should communicate to your leader.

Eric Geiger

Rhythms of Grace in Discipleship and Growth

For over a decade I was a pastor of spiritual development. As I analyzed the process that I had seen bring radical breakthrough to so many, I discovered over and again the rhythms of grace consistently playing a significant role at key points of change.

Patrick Hegarty

Don’t Despise Small Beginnings

I want to be like Christ and I want it now. I want God’s blessings and I want them now. I want my church to be huge and I want it now. But God doesn’t work that way. God begins His work with seeds hidden in the earth and babies in mangers.

Mark Altrogge

5 Signs You’re a Leader Who Talks Too Much

Unfortunately, leaders can talk too much, not necessarily by monopolizing conversations, but by giving too many answers. So, how do you know if you are a leader who talks too much and what can we do to stop?

Charles Stone

The A-E-I-O-U of Living Your Life Like Jesus

A pastor recently contacted me to ask if there was any hope for his church to survive. The few people in his church were aged, and the church was slowly but surely declining in numbers. My answer shocked him. I said there was great hope for him and his church ‒ because the Father was already at work in his town.

Rod Denton

Regaining Hope

How do you deal with disappointment? Some of us hide it away. We deny its reality with fine words. But deep down we become numb. We become afraid to trust God again. “Surviving disappointment” becomes our background story, influencing our response to every interaction. We need to grieve disappointment in a healthy way.

Dorothy Stewart

What About Those Stubborn Sinful Habits?

We know healthy leadership requires good character, but how do we deal with those headstrong, sinful habits?

Patricia Tillman

4 Questions to Ask When You Face Conflict

Everybody faces conflict. Wise leaders, however, know how to manage conflict when it comes. Four good questions arise from Acts 15 for how to face conflict.

Charles Stone

8 Ways for Expats Who Stay to Stay Well

At one point, I was a comer. One day in the future, I will be a leaver. But for the past twelve years, I have been a stayer. And I’ve passed through all the feelings: joy at new friends, sorrow at goodbyes, anger at goodbyes, self-righteous judgment of newbies, carelessness about my current circumstances, delight in my situation. It [...]

Rachel Pieh Jones

Growing Healthy Leaders to Grow Healthy Churches

Much has been written on growing healthy leaders who can in turn grow healthy churches. It seems an obvious concern but in my experience many Christian leaders do not really see it as part of their brief; church growth is something for the specialist or the traveling evangelist. Too many appear called to maintenance rather than mission.

Gordon Mylchreest

6 Faith Qualities Every Leader Should Embody

Hebrews 11 lists several faith heroes from the past and includes details about their lives that evidence great faith. We often refer to this chapter as the “faith” chapter. It offers leaders profound insight about faith that we must believe and embody to effectively lead. I suggest these six faith qualities every leader should embody.

Charles Stone