HIS NAME IS JESUS!

First of all, Merry Christmas to you and your family. I trust that thinking about who Jesus is, what he accomplished through his  birth, his life, his death on the cross, and his resurrection will inspire you with fresh hope and inspiration as you enter 2026. One...

EFFECTIVE VS. EXCELLENT

As leaders we’ve all been in groups, organizations or churches where excellence has become an all-consuming and financial sucking idol. If I were to give you $5,000 and ask you to improve some aspect(s) of what you are doing to make it more excellent, I am sure...

Four Wrong Beliefs That Feel Right

Sometimes it’s not the things you don’t believe that can hurt your leadership, but rather the things you do believe that are not true! As leaders we can be trying to operate with lies we have come to believe are true. In today’s guest post, Dan...

Some Characteristics of a 1 Corinthians 12 Church

We’ve all heard it from time to time that we want our churches (our church) to be a New Testament church! But what exactly does that mean? What characterized the New Testament church in the Bible? Chuck Lawless gives us some very practical, and specific answers...

TRY LOWERING THE BAR

Some of you might be thinking that the last person you can think of that would encourage somebody to lower the bar would be me. Now before you overreact and think that I’ve gone soft in the noggin in my old age, hang with me for a few paragraphs. This might sound...