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What Pastors Should Look for in Safe People

As you consider the traits you’d look for in a safe person, consider these Scriptures and the guidelines they infer, because these people are often difficult to spot.

The Most Beautiful People Have Known Defeat

According to world-renowned grief expert, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, “The most beautiful people…are those who have known defeat, known suffering, struggle, and loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”

How Reading People Protects Us and Those We Love From Harm

In his new book, Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell explores why so many of our interactions with strangers go wrong and how we aren't good at reading people.

5 Essential Steps in Planting a Church or Launching a Ministry

Through the years I have been asked hundreds of times about what I would say are the critical steps in planting or launching a...

5 Stages of Recovery When Toxic People Leave the Church

Pastors and other church leaders are often hesitant to deal with toxicity in the church. I get it. It’s just more conflict, confrontation and possible loss of members.

9 Things to Do When You Have Stopped Loving Your Congregation

The congregation we once loved has brought pain, and it’s hard—if not impossible—to love them now.

Fear Is Gripping More People in the Church

Over 50 percent of churchgoers indicated that they lived with moderate to significant levels of fear, compared to 20 percent for whom fear was only an occasional experience in their lives.

5 Traits of the Heart People Want From Their Pastor

People want to know that their pastor loves and follows Jesus. As a spiritual leader, your faith must be real.