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Shepherding God’s people with truth, love, courage, and care.
Resistance is not always something a leader should simply overcome. Sometimes it contains information about the follower, the change, the process, the relationship—or the leadership itself. Wise leaders investigate resistance before deciding what it means, distinguishing what belongs to the follower, what may belong to the leader, and what faithful stewardship requires of both.
Ending employment is one of leadership's most difficult responsibilities. Learn how to make necessary decisions justly, communicate truthfully, protect dignity, fulfill obligations, and preserve the trust of those who remain.
The very personality strengths that make people valuable can also make them frustrating to one another. Discover how DISC differences can lead to misunderstanding, discouragement, and withdrawal—and how humility, understanding, and deliberate appreciation can turn those differences into strengths that serve relationships, teams, and organizations.
A warm greeting is only the beginning of Christian hospitality. Learn how hospitality teams and entire congregations can move beyond hello to build meaningful relationships, discover needs, offer prayer, and demonstrate Christlike love through ordinary Sunday morning conversations.
Teachable leadership can be cultivated. Discover seven practical habits for receiving honest feedback, examining criticism, correcting mistakes, and building trust through consistent, accountable action.
Leaving a church does not always mean leaving the hurt behind. When trust has been broken and the heart is exhausted, healing may require grief, rest, forgiveness, truth, wise boundaries, and time. You can remember without remaining there—and you can love again.
Good people rarely leave without a story. Long before the resignation letter, there may have been wounds, attempts to speak, learned silence, emotional exhaustion, and leadership signals that difficult truth would not travel. Faithful leaders cannot know everything, but they can build systems that make consequential reality more knowable while the wound is still small enough to heal.
Before asking how well our churches are working, we must ask what Christ designed His Church to become. Scripture presents the Church as Christ’s redeemed people—gathered to worship God, share life, pursue holiness, exercise their gifts, and grow toward maturity in Christ, then sent into the world as His witnesses. Programs, structures, and ministries can serve that calling beautifully, but they must never reverse the relationship and turn Christ’s people into resources for sustaining the institution.
A pastor may love his church, preach faithfully, lead effectively, and correctly identify the failures of others while remaining blind to ways his own use of authority is harming the people entrusted to him. A biblical and research-informed examination of domineering leadership, self-awareness, accountability, protection of the flock, repentance, and the faithful stewardship of pastoral authority.
English claims to have grammatical rules. The evidence suggests otherwise. From “fought” and “went” to “mice,” “meese,” and the newly recognized plural “spice,” it may finally be time to fix English.
