Expecting the Unexpected

Expecting the Unexpected

Leadership

You’ve prayed and sought counsel, strategized and planned. Things might roll out exactly as expected. But let’s face it, that doesn’t happen often. Sometimes the response is better than you hoped for and sometimes you flop. Other times, the result is completely out of...
What are you waiting for?

What are you waiting for?

Leadership, Outreach, Visionizing

You long to see the Lord transform hearts, minds, and lives. It’s why you’ve dedicated your life to ministry. But instead of joyful participants, it’s getting harder to inspire action, recruit leaders, or even volunteers. At times, ministry feels more like marketing...
4 Unexpected Routes to Joy

4 Unexpected Routes to Joy

Leadership

Is joy escaping you? Does it feel more like something you are supposed to have and so have to conjure up? That pressure can really build up around the holidays. The good news is that there are things you can do to connect with joy. 4 Unexpected Routes to Joy 1. Admit...
Are you feeling the love?

Are you feeling the love?

Leadership

You love God, your family, and your friends… but is it getting harder to love your job, the people you work with and minister to?  It’s a rough time to be in ministry. Culture is changing, people are changing, and, while the mission of the Church will never change,...
Connecting Pastors to Peace

Connecting Pastors to Peace

Leadership

You have certainly had troubles in the past year: difficult transitions, attacks from within and without, possibly dwindling numbers or lack of visible results… Are you craving peace? It is a balm to body, mind and soul.  I once heard peace defined as not the absence...
Hope for Pastors

Hope for Pastors

Leadership

Hope. That essential well from which you must continue to drink if you are to continue on in life and calling. You who have borne the weight of ministry for these past few difficult years understand how crucial hope is to the soul. It’s vital for the energy to...