The Antidote to Hypocrisy
By Thom Schultz After Alan mentioned he was a Christian, everyone around him clammed up and distanced themselves from him. They automatically assumed Alan possessed several unpleasant characteristics. Justified or…
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Great Speaker. Lousy Leader.
Pastor Bob really knows how to captivate an audience with his sermons. People say he’s a “great communicator.” And many people assume that Pastor Bob’s eloquence also means he’s a…
An Answer to the Volunteer Predicament
By Bob D’Ambrosio How can I “get more volunteers.” Church leaders continue to ask what they can say or do to convince people to serve. What are the best recruitment…
Seeing Change Differently
by Joani Schultz Change is scary. What’s happening to the church as we know it makes a lot of us nervous. Even downright fearful. All this change reminds me of…
Piercing the Pastor’s Thick Skin
by Craig Cable Most of my professional career has been spent in leadership positions. I learned early that to be a good leader, I had to have fairly thick skin.…
Combating Busyness
by Austin Maxheimer A continuing struggle of mine is being present at home. I learned some bad habits that I considered “necessary for survival” while living through different seasons of…
Play Ball, Church!
by Rick Chromey I love baseball. It’s truly a beautiful, unique game. Baseball is influenced by its past but not dictated by it. Like Christianity, baseball is Trinitarian. Three strikes. …
Three Lessons for Pastors from Air Traffic Controllers
by Mikal Keefer Something to consider the next time you fly: roughly 87,000 flights crisscross U.S. airspace daily, most of them shuffled into increasingly crowded flight paths. And, at some…
Listen to the Dones
by Josh Packard Why would someone devote his whole life to church and then one day decide to walk out the door and not come back? This was the central…
Change in the Wind
by Rick Chromey Spring has truly sprung. Everywhere you look, trees bud, grass greens, and birds nest. As the days warm, there’s the promise of better days ahead. The dark,…
