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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.

Gabe Kolstad in a vineyard with the words "What You Celebrate, You Reproduce"

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What you celebrate determines what you reproduce.

I said that sentence twice in a teaching earlier this year, and I haven't been able to shake it since. It's one of those lines that sounds simple until you hold it up against your own church. Then it starts asking uncomfortable questions.

This is t...

Stop Competing, Start Celebrating — Gabe Kolstad, Next Level Pastor Coaching

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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...

Notes For Pastors Who Lead

The Assumption That's Quietly Costing You

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