4 Ways to Care for Those You Lead

4 Ways to Care for Those You Lead

Put an x on where you’d place yourself on this continuum. I’m about ¾ of the way toward task (maybe more). The tension in every ministry position is to serve both of these things well.  There are both tasks and people involved in every ministry endeavor. If you’re a...
Four Principles for Ordinary People In Ministry

Four Principles for Ordinary People In Ministry

God has always used regular ordinary people to do great things. He used anxious people and depressed people, he used hesitant people, arrogant people, and busybodies and tightwads, he used liberals and conservatives, scared people and broken people. The more ordinary...
3 Ways Satan Attacks the Families of Church Leaders

3 Ways Satan Attacks the Families of Church Leaders

For the past several decades, I’ve seen example after example of pastors and church staff members and volunteer ministry leaders being forced to leave ministry because of a breakdown in their family. Church leaders come with a target on their back. Satan knows that if...