Tag: leadership

  • Tearing Down Leadership Idols in the Church

    Tearing Down Leadership Idols in the Church

    A quick Google search on “Church Leadership” will turn up literally over 170 million links. That’s a lot of content to dig into on church leadership. For all of the talk about church leadership out there today it sure seems that the church is pretty leadership poor. I know some folks down in Texas that…

  • Stop Blaming your Team for Under Performing

    Stop Blaming your Team for Under Performing

    If you’ve ever managed a team you know how easy it is to grow frustrated when individuals on the team don’t perform well and the team doesn’t get the results you’re looking for. Unfortunately when things go wrong, the first place most leaders and managers look to place blame is on the team. Don’t hear…

  • Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit 2016

    Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit 2016

    If you missed the 2016 Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit, then you missed some great content, great speakers, and incredible ideas that have the potential to shift your thinking when it comes to leadership. But no worries! Now you’ve got all the notes to every session right here at your fingertips for free! Hope you…

  • Hope is Not a Strategy

    Hoping things will get better at your church won’t help things actually get better at your church. In fact the opposite may actually be true. The Bible says this about hope in Proverbs 13:12 “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” In other words when we place…

  • My Top 10 Church Leadership Posts of All-Time

    My Top 10 Church Leadership Posts of All-Time

    More than six years ago I reluctantly began blogging. I started this journey kicking and screaming. I didn’t want to start a blog. After all what would I have to say? Who would listen? Did the Christian community really need another voice in a conversation that already seemed pretty loud to me? What started as…