Pastors / Leadership Archives

For a book on life-affirming leadership, Jeremie Kubicek's Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It begins with a surprising amount of...

Over the last five years of ministry I have had the opportunity to be in various roles, and under the leadership of incredible people. Here are 10...

Too many churches look at things from the inside. They think about what is easiest for them, best for them or makes sense for them. They don’t...

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...

Some leaders in the American church are "tone deaf" to the realities of the changing culture, and this will ultimately lead to a moment of crisis....

Recently, I shared with our church five changes and one empowering reminder that we need to keep in mind if we are to follow Christ’s commission to...

I’ve been in pastoral ministry for over twenty-five years, and the most difficult experience I’ve had to help people through is the death of a...

For some, this is a time of lament. For others, it is a time of renewal and revival. I want to offer my reflections on the three different phases...

When is the last time you heard a sermon that suggested that a motive for our obedience should be the rewards we receive in heaven? I imagine for...

As often happens, when I began preparing and praying to speak on worship, I realized just how little I actually know on the subject...

I must admit I was speechless for close to an hour. I saw a video posted online, of an undercover operation in which Planned Parenthood’s top...

As I mentioned in my previous post, every person needs a plan, but at the center of that plan needs to be the understanding that identity comes...

Christianity has an image problem. Many of those outside of the Christian faith think Christians no longer represent what Jesus had in mind – that...

If we want to stop the bleeding in this nation when it comes to crime, teen pregnancy, and substance abuse, then we MUST get to the dads!

We need to listen to people’s stories to find out how God has worked and is working. We dare not presume that he needs to fit into our plans or...