You set the pace
As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, "Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying."
The tension of not yet
We are what we are now, but we are constantly aware that we could be more. We may be an average leader, but we could become much more effective with work, mentoring, and study.
Interview with Joseph Lalonde about Reel Leadership
This book is great for any biblical leader who enjoys movies but struggles to find a way to use them effectively.
The 7 critical ingredients of effective executive communication
Think of the main messages you need to communicate over this next week, month or season of your organizational life. Take 15-20 minutes to think through the questions I've asked here.
When you feel exhausted and discouraged
"I'm just drained!" That phrase jumped out at me from an email I received from a discouraged pastor.
Did you “stick the landing”?
You have a variety of people who will gladly judge your effectiveness, but their understanding is quite limited.
5 actions for better team members
Your team members are the lifeblood of your organization.
12 things churches changed during COVID that they are keeping
For many churches, the quarantine was a time for introspection and evaluation.
You have to keep growing
You have got to grow if you want to grow your team.
5 signs you’re a leader who needs to be needed (and needs a break)
Leaders who need to be needed rarely develop other leaders. At best, they simply attract doers and followers, and that stunts everyone's growth.
What do you have that God can use?
Tammy gathered together a group of church and community leaders to discuss how they could help solve the homelessness crisis in their area.
Transitioning staff well
Staffing turnover dramatically increased during the global pandemic, and organizations need to become better at transitioning staff well.
4 ways to create better company culture
Are your values producing the results you want?
Book review: Gun Lap, by Robert Wolgemuth
I enjoyed this book. It certainly helped me evaluate my stage of life and think through a number of important issues. I want to end well.
Don’t waste your life
If God needed a good reason today to let you live tomorrow and beyond, what would you offer him? How would you join him in his work of building a better world?
Should your church be revitalized or replanted?
In the post-COVID world we are entering, I see the need for many churches to replant instead of revitalizing.
Reasons for rest even when you’re not tired
Sometimes a season requires rest to master new movements, new rhythms of grace and wonder.
The cultural mandate’s connection to the Great Commission
To understand the Great Commission is to understand that each person alive today has been created in the image of God and participates within God's story.
In-person church services have changed in these ways
Church leaders thought long and hard about how church online should change in light of COVID. Now our physical services are altered as well.
With a firm reliance on divine providence
Skeptics may call the Revolutionary Army's survival and ultimate defeat of the British as good fortune. But George Washington called it Providence.
