A friend recently gave me reason to pause. He was talking about a tendency many of us have as leaders-to over-strategize. Sometimes, in our passion for progress, we fail to wait for our people to catch up. Instead of walking in the light we already have, we chase after new light, new revelations, new ideas.…

When a leader becomes consumed with the idea of what is perfect, it can cause a ripple effect of harm to themselves, their loved ones, and especially to staff and employees. This is because perfectionism cannot be contained. Like that burned popcorn smell that seeps from the microwave, polluting the air and everyone around it…

One of the ongoing struggles in church leadership is learning to separate vision from strategy, especially when leading people toward change. Too often, we focus on the how-how something will be implemented, who will be involved, where it’s going to happen-but we overlook the deeper question: why are we doing this? If we don’t understand…

Did you ever stop to consider that at the heart of everything Jesus did was mobilizing His followers to do ministry? I believe the purpose of the Church-the “big C” Church-is to equip its members to do works of ministry. This follows the Apostle Paul’s teaching that each believer is God’s masterpiece, created for good…

There’s an account in Scripture, in the book of Acts, about the apostle Paul’s own dark night. Luke’s second scroll tells it like this: Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. When they came…

Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem days before his death is recorded in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 21:6-10; Mark 11:6-11; Luke 19:34-44). All three provide details about Jesus’ story from the palms waving and cloaks on the ground to shouts of “Hosanna!” Often, we think of the crowd of the Palm Sunday sermon and the crowd…