A prudent leader tunes into God and discerns His wisdom. But how? And how can he know he’s truly hearing from God? Let’s open the Word and find out. (Todd… maybe someone sitting with their Bible open and a pondering look on their face as they look into the distance.) One of the first times […]
It happens to all of us. We’ve had a particularly full week or month or season, and we don’t realize how dry our interior terrain has become. Fortunately, it’s fairly easy to assess and God has plenty of living water. The other morning I decided to spend time with God in our sunroom. I settled […]
Planning is a key to successful leadership. But are “the best laid plans of mice and men” destined to fail like Robert Burns’ poem suggests? Perhaps – especially when the plans are solely manmade. The very best plans are laid with God and men. Let’s take a look. For years, our ministry did traditional strategic […]
Purpose-driven leaders with laser-beam focus. There’s something to be said for that. But are we so fixated on our goals that we look right past other key things around us? I sometimes do. On my quest to savor summer by watching a sunrise each week, I slipped out of bed at 5:30 last Tuesday. With […]
Give God a day’s worth of one-on-one time with you, and He’ll turn it into a week’s worth of impact. Several times a year our staffers take a paid day with God, and several times a year God dollops blessings on us. If it’s been awhile for you, leader-to-leader I challenge you to put it […]
For leaders, the verse – “redeeming the time, because the days are evil” – can spur us to burn midnight oil and candles at both ends. After all, time’s a wastin’ and there’s important work to be done! The second hand of our watch can be like a whip-cracking slave driver who shouts, “Hurry up, […]
When a seasoned leader urged me to join hands with other ministries years ago, I thought she was nuts. I barely had enough time to keep our own ministry afloat much less reach out to others. But God has a way of squaring these tensions – the reality of time constraints and His heart for […]
Great leaders surround themselves with other great leaders. They’re not afraid to have significant bench strength – a team of talented individuals who shine in their own right. That’s not to say they don’t occasionally wince with envy while applauding an associate’s success. If you can relate – you’re in good company, and Jesus has […]