Articles for Pastors
Want To Become a Better Leader? Grow Some Self-Awareness
Sin is humanity’s great problem, but a wholesale lack of self-awareness (then other awareness) is a leading contributor to the problems and troubles we create for ourselves.
Articles for Pastors
Strategic Flexibility – How Adding “For Now” Will Keep You Relevant Forever
The reason there are so many books, articles, and blogs on strategic flexibility is because we can’t seem to embrace one simple, two-word concept.
Articles for Pastors
How To Experience God’s Presence
We need more than a theology of God's presence: we need the experience of his presence. He is here, now. Are we awake?
Pastors
Is Being ‘Nice’ a Requirement for Leadership?
Looking back over my career, the greatest leaders I’ve had the honor to work with weren’t always very nice. They were driven, passionate, and hated doing work that was less than the best we could do.
Outreach Leaders
3 Reasons You Should Learn From Different People
Here's a question I’m working through about learning from different people: Does the breadth of your learning impact the depth of your learning?
Pastor How To's
How to Get Speaking Engagements at Churches
If you're available for speaking engagements, public speaking events, organizations looking for speakers, engagements at schools, engagements at colleges, here are 8 strategies to set yourself in a great position for landing them.
Pastors
Should Church Planters Receive a Full-Time Salary?
Except in rural areas, with the success of church planting networks and multi-site churches, you really don’t often hear of bi-vocational pastors anymore.
Articles for Pastors
Porn: The Subtle Anesthesia
The Catechism states that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, but most of the time, if I’m honest, there has been little to no enjoyment of Him. In fact, in the midst of my porn addiction, there was often no enjoyment of anything at all.