by Mark Batterson | Feb 26, 2025 | Church Leadership
Handling offense is an unavoidable aspect of leadership. You will inevitably offend and be offended. The crucial questions are: who will you offend and how will you respond to being offended? As your influence grows, so does the likelihood of offending more people.... 
by Ron Edmondson | Nov 8, 2024 | Church Leadership, Communication / Preaching
Words are powerful. As leaders, the words we use make a difference. A huge difference. In my post about life-giving statements Jesus made, I shared some things Jesus said that can encourage us today. As we seek to be like Him, we have an opportunity within our... 
by Dave Alford | Nov 6, 2024 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
One thing my leadership experiences have taught me is that the health of the organization I’m leading depends on me. If I’m healthy my organization is healthy and, if I’m not, neither is it. Your church will only be as healthy as you are. So what do you need to do in... 
by Ron Edmondson | Aug 14, 2024 | Church Health, Discipleship
I’ve often heard people say you can’t measure discipleship. I don’t know if that’s true. It is certainly true you can’t necessarily put a number or percentage on discipleship growth – as easily as you can numerical growth, but you can tell, over time, if discipleship... 
by Brian Jones | Jun 26, 2024 | Church 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...