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.

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Random Thoughts: Community

Random Thoughts: Community
A random snippet reflecting on Ephesians 2 and Galatian 3 as it pertains to Unity and Kingdom Community. How in Christ, we are one. The basis of our Kingdom membership is Christ alone and as God forms community on this basis, communities who live love, we become a sign and wonder of the Kingdom of…
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Loving Yourself: Forgiveness

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…
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Restoring Fallen Leaders

Restoring Fallen Leaders
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…
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Challenges Ripe with Opportunity – Leadership

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…
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Is our Spiritual Life Connected to Real Life?

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…
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Pastors: Take Care of Yourself

Pastors: Take Care of Yourself
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…
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Pastor Burnout

Pastor Burnout
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…
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The Cobled Path to Peace

The Cobled Path to Peace
World peace is a journey That begins with a single, faltering stepUpon the cobbled path of inner peace. Inner peace is theperfection of inner healing.Inner healing is the fruit of acceptance.Acceptance is the tree of lifeThat springs forth from Love.Love is the seed.Christ is the Seed. God is Love. God loves us…All. All of us.…
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Is it Godly Leadership or Control?

Is it Godly Leadership or Control?
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…
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Being More or Doing More?

Being More or Doing More?
The wrestle with the dichotomy of being and doing comes from the emptiness that often accompanies doing religious things out of religious obligation. The idea that we have to do things for God for love, acceptance, duty, forgiveness. For many Christians this thinking sets us up for spiritual burnout. Many pastors burn out because they…
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