A Theology of Hospitality: Say No to Bad Coffee

A Theology of Hospitality: Say No to Bad Coffee

Good coffee matters, and so does your theology of hospitality. A few years ago, I was put in charge of making the coffee at my church for a small group event in the summer. I’m the master of making coffee in my own home with my own coffee pot. I’ve got the...
How to Raise Your Leadership Ceiling

How to Raise Your Leadership Ceiling

Have you ever felt like you were destined to be a better leader? The Peter Principle tells us that people in an organization will rise to the level of their incompetence. That’s a tough thing to hear, but it’s generally true. Put simply, if you’re...
Maximizing Your Team

Maximizing Your Team

How’s that weekly staff meeting going for you? Church leadership and staff teams get bogged down by the day-to-day grind, but it doesn’t have to be that way.  When vision is established, creating a plan of attack is critical in reaching the big goals, but...
Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence

Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence

Cool. Calm. Collected. Unemotional. For the longest time, seminaries have tried to churn out pastors who embody those words. The assumption is that if we can simply preach the Bible as it is, exegete a text, people will change. This is all that is required to lead a...
Leading Your Church Through Racial Tension

Leading Your Church Through Racial Tension

You have an unprecedented opportunity to let 2020 be the most pivotal year for positive change your church has ever seen. The Internet is filled with memes that joke about how 2020 is one long disaster story. In many ways it’s true. We started the year with an...