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.
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...
If you keep running from that nagging frustration, you'll never push through it and get back to the fire that got you into ministry in the first place.
I know what it's like to live with that frustration. Most weeks I'm collecting more opportunities, more problems, and more things that need my atte...
The Lie I Kept Telling Myself
I used to tell myself a lie: I just need more help. I said it in my head on long weeks, and if I'm honest, I said it out loud to the people closest to me more than once.
Over the years God has confronted me with what was really going on. I had all the helpers I needed...
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...
