Category Archives: Leadership
Soul care, equipping and encouragement of those who find themselves on the front lines of vocational ministry. The endless demands of church growth, budgets and growing healthy vibrant communities of faith place a lot of pressure on leaders and their families. Be equipped and resourced to lead well, proven strategies for balancing family and ministry demands, conflict resolution plus preventatives to avoid burn out. Focusing on your needs as a ministry leader so you can continue to serve those within your community.

Loving Yourself: Forgiveness

Rhythms of the Heart - Video- We are encouraged to love our neighbour as ourselves (Mark 12:30-31) but what if we don't love ourselves? Jesus also taught after the last supper with His friends that we need to love each other as He loved us (John 13:34-35). One key way in which Jesus loves us is through…

It seems we are always looking for heroes, someone to place upon a pedestal and inevitably they fall from the heights we have elevated them! Sometimes it is simply they don't live up to the unrealistic expectations we place upon them but sometimes they fall from the pedestal because of their actions. Recent history is…

Challenges Ripe with Opportunity – Leadership

Whether we realize it or not, all of us are leading in a multiplicity of ways all the time and while we may lead well verbally, our actions and posture may be saying something else! Leading well is as much an art form as it's models and strategies. One such example of this is how…

Is our Spiritual Life Connected to Real Life?

Many people are realizing the disconnect between their faith life and their everyday life, and this sense of disconnection is inhibiting the deep life transformations so many of us are looking for in Christ. In this video, Dallas Willard talks about spiritual growth, the church, and our responsibility as it relates to these. Willard says…

According to researchers, 72% of a sampling of American pastors report only spending time in the Bible when they had a sermon or lesson to prepare for. This suggests that only 28% read the Bible regularly for personal study and encouragement. This isn’t a big surprise to any of us if we are really…

If ever there was a career path that was uniquely vulnerable to burnout, it is the pastor/minister. It is estimated that 40% of pastors and 47% of pastors spouses report suffering from burnout. According to some sources, 33% of pastors experience burnout within the first five years of ministry. Other sources suggest 1500 pastors per…

World peace is a journey That begins with a single, faltering step Upon the cobbled path of inner peace. Inner peace is the perfection of inner healing. Inner healing is the fruit of acceptance. Acceptance is the tree of life That springs forth from Love. Love is the seed. Christ is the Seed. God is…

In an organization, leaders generally consider themselves in the right. It is part of the paradigm they create for themselves: if you have succeeded in making your way to the top of an organization, then, by definition, the values for which you stand, must be right, because they have been authenticated and validated by peers…

So far in this series on effective leadership we have looked at the importance of leaders being trustworthy and caring. The next important aspect of effective leadership is STABILITY. When leaders are unstable: team members don't know what to expect. They often have to walk on "egg shells" as they don't know how the leader…

It is a very disappointing feeling to have put our hopes in someone's promises only to find that what was promised did not eventuate. It may be the promise of promotion, the claims of a miracle product or the untold wealth that would come from joining a business venture. Some people knowingly peddle false hopes…

December 15, 2011
Building Hope

We have been talking about the importance of leaders having real hope and how that can help the people in their teams to move ahead with enthusiasm. However, the past few years of the global financial crisis has really knocked many people's hope levels down. Hopes of a business being successful or of long planned investments paying off richly or Continue Reading...
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April 11, 2019
Two Parades. The Lie of Sacred Violence

It was the beginning of Passover as Jesus and his friends headed to Jerusalem for the to celebrate Israel's liberation from Egypt. Word spread that He was on His way to the city. People ran out to meet this Jesus who was taking the land by storm, with his radical teachings of love; turning the other cheek, forgiveness, mercy, peace. Continue Reading...
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February 14, 2018
Giving up Chronic Outrage for Lent

I’m giving up chronic outrage for Lent. I'm exhausted dumping my energy into being chronically outraged because there is an endless supply of situations to be outraged about. I just can’t do it anymore. I am finding that chronic outrage doesn't make way for us to do anything about the issue other than joining in on the choir of those Continue Reading...
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Loving Yourself: Forgiveness

Restoring Fallen Leaders

Challenges Ripe with Opportunity – Leadership

Is our Spiritual Life Connected to Real Life?

Pastors: Take Care of Yourself

Pastor Burnout

The Cobled Path to Peace

Is it Godly Leadership or Control?

Stability in Leadership

Don’t Sell False Hope

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Building Hope

Two Parades. The Lie of Sacred Violence

Giving up Chronic Outrage for Lent