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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 standing beside a winding mountain road at sunrise, illustrating a long journey of faithful leadership, with the title "A LONG OBEDIENCE" and the subtitle "The Secret to Leading for the Long Haul."

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A Long Obedience: The Secret to Leading for the Long Haul

Leadership has a drift problem.

Not because leaders wake up one morning and decide to abandon their calling. It almost never happens that way.

Instead, it happens slowly. Quietly. Almost imperceptibly.

One urgent request. One exciting opp...

Preventing Procrastination | Enemies of Excellence #2 action avoidance beat inaction break the cycle excellence fear impact momentum motion procrastination progress stuck taking action unstuck

Inaction—the silent killer of progress. It shows up as procrastination, blame, or simple avoidance, and if you’re like me, you’ve dealt with it more times than you’d like to admit. It’s like this: an object in motion stays in motion, and an object at rest? Well, it tends to stay at rest. And that is...

Notes For Pastors Who Lead

A Long Obedience: The Secret to Leading for the Long Haul

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