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There are many things that Christians are doing in the postmodern era that are exemplary, often ignored by the media. For instance, the...

I recently came across a fascinating geographical factoid. The writer at The Acadian Ideal overlayed the Mediterranean Sea map on top of...

Pray for Ukraine. The recent Russian invasion of Ukraine has been overwhelmingly condemned by world leaders, baffled by Putin’s shocking...

I’m writing this on MLK Day. The non-violent protests for voting rights in the 1960’s, particularly in Alabama, had raised the ire of...

At the start of a new year, rather than thinking about resolutions and future-thinking, I prefer to first mentally review the past year:...

How do leaders pray? Or more specifically, what do leaders pray? If our ultimate leader in this Kingdom movement is Jesus, how and what...

One day while working in Ephesus, the apostle Paul dictated a letter to a terrifically dysfunctional church he had founded earlier. In it...

“No one in my master’s house is more important than I am.” ~Joseph (Genesis 39:9a CEV). It seems the fall of prominent Christian leaders...

In the decades that I’ve been following Jesus, I’ve met numbers of people who have questioned how they’ve spent their time after...

After years of working with churches, we’re finding that the Imagination element is typically the least exercised of the four critical...

In my years of coaching pastors, I’ve found that the conversation will inevitably drift into one of three tracks that will determine what...

I was recently invited on a podcast with William Vanderbloemen. I wasn’t completely sure what the interview was going to be about, but it...

Some years back I had lunch with a young man who had immigrated to America at fifteen to escape an abusive father and a broken family...

Often in churches like the one I pastored years ago, we turned the mainstream view of “believe, then belong” upside down. That’s because...

Decades ago, becoming a learning organization was a common call-to-action in organizational development circles. That is, it was...

So how often do you get to tell the story of someone you know coming back from the dead? And not just sucking air again. Even Lazarus did...

Before we begin, a quick reality check: all pastors struggle with leadership challenges. In a recent survey, over half U.S. pastors found...

From the tribe of Issachar, there were two-hundred leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood the signs of the...

Successful leadership of any organization is dependent on the ability to effectively delegate. Good delegation is a defining feature of...

Every church leader has to wrestle with the financial demands of ministry. The apostle Paul was bi-vocational as a tentmaker. But Acts...