There are few better friends for a leader than self-awareness. You’ve seen leaders who think they’re doing great when, in fact, everyone around them begs to differ. How do you not become that leader? One of the best things you…
Here’s a leadership secret. Almost anyone who has ever led anything significant has felt like they’re in over their head at one point or another. You might be there right now. I hear from young leaders all the time or leaders…
Chances are you’re likely struggling with the same issue almost every church leader is—a lack of truly great leaders for ministry. Whether I talk to megachurch leaders or leaders of churches of 50 people, they say the same thing: they…
Twice this week so far, I’ve heard of church leaders who are moving out of leadership because they had affairs. Last weekend, another well known pastor had to step down after admitting to having had an affair. Yesterday I got a…
In 2020, my wife Toni and I celebrated 30 years of marriage. I love her more than I ever dreamed of. And it’s also been a totally different experience than either of us thought it would be. I love this picture of…
Every once in a while I hear from a leader who says “We don’t any need more ideas/strategies/conferences…all we need to do is pray.” Well actually, writing this blog, quite often I hear from people like that. Maybe you have…
You’ve heard it said here more than a few times, you are the hardest person you will ever have to lead. How do I know that? Because I’m the hardest person I have to lead. It was 20 years ago…
Find yourself becoming a little more cynical every year as a leader? Few of us decide we’re going to be cynical…we just kind of end up there. How does that happen? How does a heart grow hard? How do you end…
Remember report card time? It always freaked me out a bit. Teachers would get to evaluate my life and tell me how well I was doing (or not doing). I always had a love/hate relationship with report cards. I loved them…
Sometimes progress in life can be tough to measure. You might feel stuck right now. Or just the opposite—you might feel like you’re making incredible progress. But are you? How would you know? Of all the areas in which I want to…