Birth vision out of prayer

Church Development, Leadership, Visionizing

Note: This blog entry is part of a series on church planting. If you would like to see all entries that have been posted so far in this series, you can bring them up by doing a search for “church planting series” on this blog. You can also purchase the full 27 page...

Permission vs. ownership

Leadership

  A critical mistake many pastors make is they assume that if they get their governing board to give permission or approval, they’ve won the battle. It’s true that governing board permission is needed for certain initiatives, but the more critical issue isn’t...

Great TED Talk on Grit

Leadership, Prioritizing

  I ran across this TED Talk by Angela Lee Duckworth recently about the value of “grit”– what followers of Jesus might term “perseverance.” It was a great talk, geared mainly toward educational settings, about how important this quality of “grit” is to...

Maximize the vision, minimize the change

Leadership, Outreach, Visionizing

  There’s a young guy who lives in the inner city. He works outside the city most of the week, but on Sundays he plays basketball to relax and exercise. His vision is to reach inner city youth, but he felt he didn’t have much time to invest in any official type...
Become a Better Leader in 30 Days

Become a Better Leader in 30 Days

Leadership, Training

Become a Better Leader in 30 Days by Steve Richardson is not a specifically Christian book, but it is written like a devotional. In 30 brief sections (just 1-3 pages each), Richardson gives you a principle to reflect on along with an activity to incorporate that...

Sovereign foundations and soap box derbies

Leadership

In Bobby Clinton’s classic book The Making of a Leader, he writes about the concept of “sovereign foundations”– the contexts a person was born into that give shape to their lives. That could include the family they were born into, any disabilities they have, the...