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3 Distractions That Stunt Growth in Ministry
Do you ever feel like the day flies by and you haven’t accomplished anything? Yeah, I’ve had that feeling too. In fact, it’s something I’ve often struggled with and that’s why a few weeks ago I attended a webinar on the Read more →
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The Affair Tempting Every Pastor
So could you end up having an affair as a leader—even as a well-intentioned Christian leader?
I think the answer is absolutely.
Obviously, some leaders have emotional or sexual affairs with people to whom they are not married. As hear...
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5 Tips to Tame Your Inner Control Freak
So you might have a love-hate relationship with control: you love controlling things, but you hate being controlled.
It’s not surprising. People who like control seem to have a natural ability to get into leadership positions. Or sometimes they cr...
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5 Reasons Engagement Will Drive Almost All Future Church Growth
As culture changes in front of our eyes, you might be wondering, what will drive future church growth?
In addition, you’re probably frustrated that the things that used to help a church grow don’t ‘work’ anymore (here are Read more →
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12 Brainstorming Ideas That WILL Improve Team Creativity
Brainstorming can often improve creativity when you need many possible ideas. Consider these 12 suggestions the next time your team needs to generate solutions to a problem.
- Encourage debate, dissent and healthy criticism of ideas. Heal...
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5 Keys to Finishing Your Next Project
“I don’t start something unless I know I’ll finish it.” That’s what my wife told me yesterday in our kitchen. And I wonder how many others operate like she does. I wonder how many potential ministries haven’t been started because th...
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Become a Better Leader Today—5 Keys
Sometimes leadership can seem so overwhelming.
In reality, though, leadership is simpler than it first appears.
In many ways, great leaders master some very basic things that other people miss. The advice in this post is so simple you might be...
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Why Broken-Hearted People Make the Best Leaders
When I served as a pastor at Saddleback Church, one of the things that impressed me most about the church was the hiring requirement Pastor Rick Warren laid down:
If you haven’t been through pain, you’re not ready to be on staff at Saddl...
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7 Shared Traits of Growing Churches
Once a month at Sun Valley Community Church (the church I have the privilege of serving at) we gather all of our staff from all of our campuses to have some fun, cele...
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Is Your Church Like Walmart?
Walmart, with all of its success as a company, has continued to come under public criticism in recent years. A quick Google search will provide a litany of articles about the company devaluing employees in order to pad bottom lines and the big box st...
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Stop Imitating Other Leaders
If you’re like me, you like to track with people who are ahead of you in what they’ve accomplished, both in terms of their lives and in terms of their leadership.
Chance are you do this in real life (I hope you have mentors). But the online world...
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What to Do When People Don’t Recognize Your Talent or Potential
If your goal is to make an impact in your career or calling, it won’t be long before you meet someone who doesn’t recognize (or even dismisses) your talent. Early in my career, I worked for a man who thought so many of my idea...
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Is It Time for a Ministry Do Over?
I’m the new guy once again. As a kid, I hated being the new guy because there was a lot of unknown. As an adult, there still is a lot of unknown with being new and that’s okay. In fact, it’s better.
It’s goin...
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How to Handle Rejection in the Workplace
If you’re a creative person, at some point you’ll find a boss, investor, studio or colleague who rejects your ideas. Sometimes it will happen so often you’ll start to question your own ability, and wonder if you’re really crea...
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7 Traits of the Long-Term Pastor
They have been at their present church at least 10 years, often much longer.
They have persevered. They have served multiple generations of the same families.
They have known the highs and lows of ministry. And they have not succumbed to the si...