Notes For Pastors Who Lead
Honest, practical writing on pastoral health, building a team, and leading a church that grows without grinding you down — the same ground I walk with the pastors I coach.
The Gap No One Warns You About
You can't just keep increasing your leadership responsibility without also increasing your emotional resilience. Those two have to grow together in order for your leadership to be sustainable. If they don't — if responsibility climbs and resilience stays flat — the we...
The Assumption That's Quietly Costing You
What if one of your assumptions about how to be effective is actually working against you?
Here's the one I want to put on the table: competition. Not the healthy kind that sharpens a team, but the quiet, low-grade version that lives inside most of us — th...
What would it look like to create a ministry that outlives you?
That question can change the way you walk into work on a Monday morning.
Most of us arrive with a more immediate set of questions: What needs my attention? What’s coming up this weekend? How are we going to fill that position, solve t...
Have you ever looked at your week and wondered, “How am I working this hard and still feeling this stuck?”
You’re preparing messages. Caring for people. Answering questions. Making decisions. And before you’ve had a chance to catch your breath, Sunday is coming again.
Most of the pastors I talk wi...
You delegated the task.
You explained what needed to happen.
You assigned it to a capable person.
But somehow, the questions, decisions, and responsibility eventually came back to you.
If this keeps happening, you may assume your team lacks initiative. You may wonder whether you need better peop...
Will You Let Hesitation Steal Your Destiny?
There was a time in the history of Israel, during their wandering years in the wilderness, when God moved them into action.
“You have stayed at this mountain long enough.”
(Deuteronomy 1:6, NLT)
When Preparation Time Has Expired
Sometimes, your p...
What does your team actually need from you this week?
It’s a question every leader wrestles with—whether you’re leading a church, a business, a nonprofit, or your own household. You’ve probably had moments of uncertainty, asking yourself:
“Am I doing the right things? Are they getting what they
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