Discerning Whether to Accept a New Position
How do you discern whether God is leading you to accept a new leadership role? Here’s my process. … More Discerning Whether to Accept a New Position
How do you discern whether God is leading you to accept a new leadership role? Here’s my process. … More Discerning Whether to Accept a New Position
As sure as train traffic increases with the fall harvest, each year I’ll work with a handful of churches nearing the end of their life cycles. I see a symbolic relationship between the two. … More Churches Need Skilled Switch Operators
There were a couple of years I thought this week’s trite saying had disappeared from use. But like Chia Pets and mullet hair styles, it just keeps coming back. … More It’s Better to Fade Away than to Burn Out
The anniversary of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks is an opportunity for churches to review how to respond the initial 24 hours of a crisis. … More Leadership Lesson from 9/11
Of the five trite saying leaders need to abandon, this is the one I don’t won’t to let go: “It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission.” … More It’s Better to Not Need to Ask
Americans spend more than 10 hours a day staring at soft glowing screens. It’s healthier to move some of the time consuming to creating. … More A Case for Creating over Consuming
This the third trite saying needs abandoning because it’s flat out untrue. If you use this saying, you might as well also say the world is flat. … More New Flash! Time Doesn’t Heal All Wounds!
The faster the rate of change, the more time it takes to keep up with the changes. This irony is challenging churches. … More Ministry at the Speed of Change
Practice does not make perfect. It’s time to stop telling people it does. … More Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
The most important decisions about starting new churches happen at the beginning. Here are five key questions to ask when discerning where to start a church. … More Discerning Where to Start a Church