By Mandy Smith From Leadership Journal Pastoring has always been hard. Today it’s especially challenging; we’re in a time of radical upheaval. Some pastors are watching their congregations and denominations shrink. Others find that the ways they’ve...
From Leadership Journal by G. Jeffrey MacDonald For years, dinners consisting of granola bars or peanut butter crackers on the run were good enough for Pastor Ross Varney. He’d munch them as he sped off to one evening meeting or another. He saw it as putting the...
From Center For Creative Leadership Too many tasks, too many people, too much stuff. Whether fueled by the roles they want to play or a multitude of obligations, most people are overloaded. Companies and leaders are waking up to the fact that a relentless focus on...
By Martha Beahm, D.Min., Ed.S. I Cor. 6:19: “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?” When we are in the role as a servant leader, we often do not include ourselves...
By John Stackhouse Count up all of those hours: Is that what we really think our preachers are worth? The way some Christian churches and other organizations pay their speakers, it makes me embarrassed to be a member of the same faith. A friend of mine is a gifted...
