Discover the joy of coaching — As generational and economic shifts continue to influence our world, rewards and challenges will come in equal measure. What skills, experience and passions do you have that could help others dream as the future unfolds? …

The three values that define a leader in crisis — Have you ever considered this? COVID-19 is not the first pandemic we have faced. Generations before us have weathered similar crises — and survived. In fact, that is why we are still here! …

Conquering the three mistakes of the low-tech church — Some people are called to ministry. I felt called to be a nerd. I grew up a preacher’s kid. Any time those church doors were open, I was there. Every Sunday and Wednesday my entire family would be at church for hours. …

Lessons learned in the classroom of crisis — Crises tend to be the training ground for leadership. Wars produce great presidents and prime ministers. Oppression becomes the breeding ground for liberators and activists. Troubled times seem to be the harvest season for greater leaders and leadership. This is not in the least coincidental — adversity births greatness. People…

Letting God use you while He changes you — One day, though, God used a rather innocuous incident to teach me a lesson I will never forget. I was staying on the tenth floor of my apartment building, and I accidentally knocked off a shampoo bottle resting on a raised ledge near the open bathroom window. Later, as I…

Taking the Sabbath approach to life — By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. …

There’s no such thing as automated leadership — You know, God has created the universe in such a way that things go from order to disorder — from order to chaos. It literally takes effort to build a ministry, like it takes effort to build anything. It takes energy to take blocks and stack them on top of…

Your value is not found in your performance as a leader. — Early on in my leadership career, I learned a valuable lesson about capacity. I discovered that in the truest sense, capacity has more to do with our ability to contain or receive than our ability to produce. What enables us to produce much is determined by our ability to receive…

Putting words to our experience with God — The word worship comes from the old English word worthship, which means “to give worth to something.” When we “worth-ship” God, we attribute worth (or value) to Him. Worship always communicates something. When the world sees a believer worship, people think, Oh, that’s what God is worth to that believer…