Timeless wisdom for pastors with forward-thinking solutions.
Why Suffering Belongs in Our Sermons
Matthew D. Kim believes addressing pain is part of a preacher’s calling.
Sermons Alone Don’t Make You a Teaching Church
It takes more than a pulpit to train up your people in the way they should go.
3 Reasons Not to Confront by E-mail
Douse flames face-to-face.
More than a “Church-Like Place”
Are you truly being the church or just going through the motions?
Back to School
As Christian colleges and seminaries multiply your options for pursuing further education, now might be the time to start or finish that degree.
Flipping the Switch
A review of “Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard” by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.
Let the Little Children Come
These churches are learning to welcome children into their worship and mission.
Can Your Church Handle the Truth?
Recovery ministries demand a level of honesty many congregations aren’t used to.
Co-Ed Staff Dynamics
Leadership book review of Mixed Ministry: Working Together as Brothers and Sisters in an Oversexed Society.
Full-Service Facilities
These churches are using their buildings to make an impact way beyond the weekend.
The First Church of Second Life
What is the role of real Christians in a virtual world?
Which Half-Brain Do You Lead With?
Comparing the latest books by Andy Stanley and Tim Keel.
Show, Don’t Tell
Angelic host proclaims: Jim Walker calls his approach to preaching “fellowship with the Word.”
Leader’s Insight: Hero Boycott
Why the big-name celebrity leaders are turning me off.
Reverse Mentoring
The new learning curve is from the bottom up.
Leader’s Insight: It’s Not My Fault?
Why short-tenure leaders are doomed to repeat their excuses.
Put an End to Trading Season
What it takes to make your ministry a true contender.
Discerning Your Church’s Hidden Core Values
It’s the unstated, underlying purpose that really drives a church.
Leader’s Insight: Ministry Gone Stale
Do leaders have a shelf life?
Leader’s Insight: Overeager and Dangerous
Recognizing the difference between excited servants and mature leaders.
Leader’s Insight: No Simple Church Solutions
Why I’m not jumping on the new bandwagon.
From First Chair to Second Fiddle
Your calling to ministry may lead from senior pastor to associate.
Church Is Simple. No, Really
Simple Church book review.
Leader’s Insight: Under-Communicating
Why aren’t people listening to what I think I’m saying? Conclusion of the series The Three Legs of Trust.
Leader’s Insight: How Competent Are You?
Part three of a series, “The Three Legs of Trust.”
Leader’s Insight: Assessing Character
Part two of a series, “The Three Legs of Trust”.
Leader’s Insight: Can I Trust You?
Strengthening the three legs of trust.
Leader’s Insight: The L-Laws of L-Leadership
Leadership for the rest of us.
Looking for Leaders
What does leadership look like in the emergent generation?
Leader’s Insight: Leader’s Lessons from March Madness
What a fan and a foreigner learned from an annual basketball liturgy.
Leader’s Insight: Who Really Needs Church?
Coping with the death of ecclesiology.
Leader’s Insight: Don’t Stuff the Dog
The leadership perils of spiritual taxidermy.
9 Clues to Secret Core Values
More on discerning your church’s hidden agenda.
Put an End to Trading Season
What it takes to make your ministry a true contender.
Reverse Mentoring
The new learning curve is from the bottom up.
Going New School
Emerging business trend can energize ministry.
Currents Shaping My Church: Has Your Church Jumped the Shark?
Leadership lessons from Fonzie’s waterskiing feat.
When Ministry Jumps the Shark
Can we recover from goofy, life-altering episodes?