Surviving a storm sometimes looks like an intentional shipwreck. Because losing your ship on a sandbar beats drowning at sea. When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they saw a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could… [The centurion] ordered those who could…
Leadership
Passivity in Leadership: Do Something!
Most of the time this voice of passivity in leadership begets more reasoning on why we “should not act” rather than why we “should.”
Can We Measure the Deep Work of Ministry Training?
In the work of ministry training and making disciples success is difficult to measure: the best disciple-Maker in history invested three years in a group that looked like failures on the very same night he celebrated a “graduation dinner” with them.
5 Words of Encouragement to Pastors During the Crisis
I love pastors. For the last couple years I didn’t serve as a pastor while I was leading At Leadership Network, but I landed back into an intentional interim role on February 1st. I am pastoring my home church for a season. While I thought I was here to redirect a few things and prepare…
Crisis Response: What’s Your Style?
Leaders: what is your method of crisis response? I love the leadership displayed during a scene in “It’s a Wonderful Life” where George Bailey is about to leave for his honeymoon and panic struck the Building and Loan. As the president, he was forced to avert his plan, go back and save the company. He…
Does God’s Guidance Shows Us How to Lead?
Does God's guidance show us how to lead? I believe we can learn a lot about planting and pastoring by thinking about God's guidance. He prioritizes relationship over arrival. He prefers intimacy over efficiency. He loves trusting over rushing. and perhaps most difficult, he into mystery over simplicity. God's guidance often feels like going nowhere…
