Category: Leadership

17 Symptoms of a Toxic Team Culture

Great leaders take responsibility for bringing clarity to their team culture. How do you know if you’ve got a healthy volunteer and staff team culture, or a toxic team culture?

Pornography and Church Discipline: Is it Ever Appropriate?

Articles, Leadership

For all the time and prayers, hopes and hugs, promises and good intentions, resolutions and moral resolve—nothing seems to happen. It all appears futile. Is there ever a time to connect pornography and church discipline?

Ministry Isn’t a Marathon: Sometimes the Most Spiritual Thing You Can Do Is Take a Break

Articles, Leadership

While well-meaning and good-intentioned, I’ve now come to find this statement to not only be inaccurate, but potentially destructive. Maybe ministry isn’t a marathon.

The Lessons of Christmas

Articles, Leadership, Worship

Some things hide in plain sight. Others hide behind fancy names. And still others hide among the over-decorated trappings of tradition dressed up as garish holiday cheer. Sometimes it’s all three. These are the lessons of Christmas.

“Radical Church Planting” Means Going Subterranean

Articles, Leadership

Truly radical church planting requires us to go deep: the “subterranean” life of the church must be rooted at least four ways.

The Secret of Christmas: He’s the God of Nobodies

Articles, Leadership, Worship

This season, if you are a nobody—rejoice! You are not far from the Kingdom of God, because He’s the God of nobodies, like you and me.

Why You Shouldn’t Plan Your Church’s Devotionals

Articles, Leadership

It’s tempting when a believer comes to you, saying, “Pastor, I have a hard time reading the Bible regularly. Can you give me a devotional plan?” Resist this temptation! There is a better way.