One of my favorite leadership expressions says that if you think you’re leading people but no one is following, you’re not leading – you’re just taking a walk. A surefire way to get people to stop following is to be demanding and correct them constantly without offering profuse encouragement. As Mark Chanski says in his…
This month on the blog we are trying to touch on the theme of leadership in different ways. Whether you are a single mom trying to lead her home, a husband struggling to lead his family, a manager at a local store trying to lead your employees, or a pastor trying to lead in your…
Recently I finished Chip Heath and Dan Heath’s book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and they give six principles for making ideas stick that I found helpful. To preface, the Heath brothers do say, “there is no ‘formula’ for a sticky idea — we don’t want to overstate the case. But sticky ideas…
Always Take the High Road (taken from Bill Hybels book Axiom) When I was in my early twenties, I served as one of the youth leaders for a group called Son City. We had grown from a whopping attendance of twenty-five people to more than a thousand in less than three years, and God was rocking…
“If we are going to help Millennials to come or come back to church, we need to understand why the Millennials don’t come now. Here are five reasons.” Millennials have less patience with institutions. Millennials don’t trust institutions – that includes the church. Millennials are less likely to be married. Single people are less likely…
“If we are going to help Millennials to come or come back to church, we need to understand why the Millennials don’t come now. Here are five reasons.” Millennials have less patience with institutions. Millennials don’t trust institutions – that includes the church. Millennials are less likely to be married. Single people are less likely…
This year I’m going to be much more intentional with my time and one way I’m doing that is planning out my reading list 3 months in advance. Here’s what I’ve selected for January – March: January 2016 Generational IQ (helping me think through making decisions in the church that has, for the first time in…
Joshua Harris wrote a fantastic little book entitled Stop Dating The Church: Fall In Love With The Family Of God, where he walks through the beauty of the local church and the expectation that God puts forth in His Word that believers be connected to a local church. To that end, here are ten questions he gives…
I read Margin several years ago as I saw Tony Merida mentioned that he had read it. And if you know Tony you know he’s a godly dude so I decided to read it and I’m grateful I did. Here’s a 12-page summary of the book that I received via Leadership Book Summaries: The Growing Leader. By the way, you…
I read Margin several years ago as I saw Tony Merida mentioned that he had read it. And if you know Tony you know he’s a godly dude so I decided to read it and I’m grateful I did. Here’s a 12-page summary of the book that I received via Leadership Book Summaries: The Growing Leader. By the way, you…
Theology Along the Way 