Leading Change: Unveiling the Power of Innovation Adoption
Every leader's desire is to not just bring vision to their church, but to see that vision become reality. If you're like most leaders, though, you've found implementing new ideas to be very difficult - and this is why many give up in the process, and most churches...
A Simple Plan for Making Big Changes in a New Church
You've probably heard the old adage, "how does a new pastor move the organ from one side of the platform to the other? One inch at a time!" It sounds funny and even sounds true, but I disagree completely. The sentiment behind the statement is that big changes can...
4 Simple Steps to Life Transformation
Many Christians are never taught about life transformation beyond salvation. Instead, they’re taught to learn information, modify their behavior, and to act and behave according to guidelines for acceptance, community, and ministry promotion. Unfortunately, this leads...
30-Plus Side Income Ideas for Pastors
In today's church leadership reality, most pastors are either the sole employee of the church or are working bi-vocationally to make ends meet. Pastoring is a full-time job, no matter how you look at it, and the reality for most is they need either a second job or a...
Should We Follow the Successful Churches? How Survivor Bias Kills Ministries.
Are you like me? I mean, are you a pack rat when it comes to collecting resources, ideas, and methods of other ministries? I confess I'm an unabashed student of others who seem to be 'getting it done.' After all, why reinvent the wheel, right? It's normal to look at...
5 Tips for Delegating to Volunteers
If you need to relieve yourself of some of your workload and know you need to ask unpaid volunteers to do it, let me share a plan for how to recruit them without feeling guilty about it. Whether you're a paid pastoral leader or unpaid, full-time or bivocational, one...
4 Reasons to use Triads in Discipleship
Have you heard of triads? They're small groups of three people who meet regularly to support, encourage, and keep each other accountable. In Dave Logan's book, "Tribal Leadership", he suggests that triads can be a valuable tool for creating the type of collaborative,...
7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started
A better understanding of our past helps us ensure a better future. This is just as true for ministry as it is for life. As I reflect on my ministry over the past 30+ years, I realize that there are things I know now that I wish I had known years ago when I started....
7 Secrets to Practicing the Presence of God
So, you've been craving a deeper relationship with Jesus, but seem to keep falling short? Join the masses of ministers who have also struggled with this. The good news is, you don't have to stay in that club. I didn't. If life is divided into two simultaneous realms -...
How Leaders Find Strength in Valleys
Even as ministry leaders, we can find ourselves walking through valleys and wondering if there are any mountain tops ahead for us. Sometimes we can even question whether there’s hope in our valley. It might just be that you are struggling a bit with this right now....
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