Tag: Leadership

Despite the team’s initial desire to keep the positive momentum, avoid further anxiety and move on, the dissenting voice forced us to slow down. It turned out to be a gift as we got to grips with heartfelt issues.

Much has been written on growing healthy leaders who can in turn grow healthy churches. It seems an obvious concern but in my experience many Christian leaders do not really see it as part of their brief; church growth is something for the specialist or the traveling evangelist. Too many appear called to maintenance rather than mission.

There’s a lie floating around out there that goes something like this: getting older will automatically make you closer to Jesus. Just the mere passing of days doesn’t do that. I sure wish it were that easy.

Paul Tripp discusses how to fit mission into your schedule without causing it to become one more thing on the to-do list.

We must not deny or ignore the fact that if we are followers of Jesus Christ living in this world, we are engaged daily in a great spiritual battle.

David Platt shares what it means to follow Christ and the dangers of being safe.

God is more concerned with who we are, and who we are becoming in Him, than the work we produce each day.

How you measure success in this life will dictate the way you live and the legacy you will leave.

Don’t grow weary in doing good. Remember, the seeds we sow are powerful. Something good really is happening even if we suffer initially. Our seeds will bear fruit in God’s timing. We will reap a harvest in God’s perfect timing, in his “due season.”

David Platt shares with us how a Word-saturated ministry propagates and sustains a radical lifestyle for the Gospel.

Have you become so busy trying to change the world for Christ that you have no time for Christ to change you?

We are called to be one kingdom people, which means cultivating a holy, reverent fear of God.

Do we need to re-humanize the leaders and spokespeople in our lives?

What is your response to Jesus’ invitation to embrace the kingdom of heaven and follow Him?

How do you find joy even through the difficult times of ministry?

Do you know that the Lord Himself finds joy and satisfaction in His people? God’s people give Him pleasure! He joys over us with singing and takes delight in us. The new creation that is the church is a foretaste of the New Heavens and New Earth. While awaiting that glorious future God Himself says that we ought to rejoice in the people He has created. Enjoy the fruit of the ministry. See what the Lord has done and be glad in it!

This is a precious story written by a Chinese leader during a time of deep trial and brokenness in her life.

When you woke up this morning, did you get pumped that you could have an encounter with Christ, that you could meet the Spirit of God to see Him living through you in a supernatural way? Or did you go back to the flesh-and-blood stuff again?

The long view, a generational view, is the kind of view that provokes patience and compels us to initiate collaboration with the generations before and after us in accomplishing Kingdom work. God has included in the assignment of each generation, the intentional sowing into those who are coming up after us.

I still laugh at when my dad built a birdhouse and put it up in his back yard. Thoughtfully, he stuffed the cute little structure with twigs to help the birds with their nest-building. Watching one day he saw a bird go inside the birdhouse and come out with a twig in her mouth, take it to a tree and return, only to get another twig. That resourceful mother bird had found a great cache of perfect twigs to build her nest somewhere else!