Everything rises and falls on leadership. As pastors, teachers, and church planters, we should be life-long learners, especially in the area of leadership.
Last night I had a dream that I was sitting in the back seat of a car riding around the streets of 1950s Clearwater, Florida. Everything I saw in my dream had a yellowish tint, like the way the Cohen brothers filmed the movie No Country For Old Men. At some point in...
Planting a life-giving church requires leaders to have a clear understanding of what they are called to achieve. Here...
“No one in my master’s house is more important than I am.” ~Joseph (Genesis 39:9a CEV). It seems the fall of...
ANTS!!! It seems that no matter what I do they become more. They are in the kitchen, the bathroom, the dining room,...
It has been over 20 years since I first became a pastor. I've had the privilege of equipping many for the pastorate...
I spend a lot of time in churches with church leaders and their people. I gave a lot of thought to what the game...
Every new business tries to differentiate itself from all others. The same kind of thinking holds true for churches....
As a leader, there are many times I feel like the mediator between opposing viewpoints. I’m steering our team towards...
Ernest Gordon was a Christian, author, and former dean of Princeton Seminary who died a couple of decades ago. Gordon...
I’ve lost count of how many Senior Pastors I’ve talked to whose churches are hemorrhaging financially. Dealing with a...
There are many reasons we should start a church. There are even more reasons we should plant churches that plant...
In my years of coaching pastors, I’ve found that the conversation will inevitably drift into one of three tracks that...
In Acts 2, when Peter was inspired to preach mightily by the power of the Holy Spirit, he was evidencing an amazing...