Many leaders avoid conflict at any cost…
It seems this is true especially of pastors…
Yet conflict is often necessary for healthy relationships…
When needed conflict is avoided, people grow bitter, relationship development stalls, and teams suffer…
Here’s one thing I’ve learned about conflict…
Perhaps this well motivate you to confront what you need to confront…
Tweet The larger our church gets the more I have to say no… It’s become a necessity… To maintain my health, the health of my family and the church, I…
This is a random Sunday afternoon post…
I want to encourage us to have a great week this next week…
I believe and strive for continual improvement…
In my experience, this happens best when we make intentional changes…
That’s the point of this post…
This next week, I want to encourage…challenge…even dare you to make an intentional change to improve something in your life…
I’ll go first…
Authenticity is a necessary trait for leaders these days…
People are less likely to fall people they don’t feel are transparent or real…
Here’s a word of advice to leaders…
A met with a young man recently who is passionate about growing in his relationship with God, being a better husband and father, becoming more active in the church and community and excelling in his work.
He’s sensing an internal, self-induced tension to do more and be better in each area of his life.
His question to me was basically, how can he balance all the things he wants to do or feels he needs to be doing?
I certainly understood the question. It’s a pressure I’ve experienced many times in my life, especially during certain seasons. In fact, I’m sensing it again as I entered the empty-nester phase of life.
I gave him one word of advice that has helped me during those seasons. Perhaps you need to hear this as well….
Recently I spoke to a group of church planters. My assigned task was to share the “3 most important steps to launching” a church plant in my opinion and experience. After the times of prayer…when you know you have a God-given assignment to plant a church…what next?
Here is what I shared. I believe these are similar for beginning any project.
Do you seem to struggle to get where you hope to get in life? Do you watch as others accomplish their dreams, but yours never seem to materialize?
In my experience, there are a few common reasons people are held back from accomplishing their dreams, even their God-given dreams.
Here are 3 stumbling blocks to moving forward:
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days John 11:5-6
Oh…the stress of leadership…
Jesus chose to stay, even though His friends were hurting…
Not because He was cruel…
Not because He didn’t care…
We know it wasn’t easy on Jesus…
Let’s write a story together!
We did this last year and it was a lot of fun. You can read our finished story HERE. Several asked if we could repeat it. I’ve picked up a few readers since then, so this is new for some of you.
Here is how this works: (Please read carefully)
The goal here is to be creative and see where our imagination and the story takes us, yet write a credible, interesting story. After comments seem to be slowing, I’ll post the entire story in a separate post. If you leave your full name, I’ll give you credit in the excerpts. If you have a blog link when you add your comment, I’ll link to you also.
Have fun!
Here is the first sentence:
Recently I was reposted my parenting model I’ve called “Grace Parenting”. You can read the article HERE.
One of the principles in my model is to Major on the Majors, Not on the Minors and I stated that there are certain non-negotiables I think a parent should enforce in their parenting. A reader commented on the post, asking, “What are the non-negotiables?”
Great question! For my family, these were mostly Biblical characteristics I wanted my boys to possess as adults, things most people would agree are a part of having a good, moral character.
Things such as:
