Category Archives: For Leaders

Developing Followers

In leadership we are seeking to help the people we are leading discover their purpose and potential. Each leader also may have certain goals, objectives and processes that they are supposed to meet and follow-through on, however the ultimate objective of leadership is the development of our followers. As leaders we need to engage, equipContinue reading “Developing Followers”

Leading “as one with authority”

“As one with authority” “They were amazed at his teaching.” “He taught as one with authority and not as their teachers.” These words were spoken about Jesus. Some of His first words to certain people were: “Follow Me”. Jesus came as a leader. He led people in a different way than the scribes of theContinue reading “Leading “as one with authority””

I don’t know how to lead

In my various roles as husband, father, pastor, prayer-evangelist, chaplain and writer I have one driving desire: I want the people that I live with and interact with to discover their purpose and potential and live in perfect peace and overcoming victory. My desire is that everyone I know comes to a knowledge of allContinue reading “I don’t know how to lead”

What is it like to be a pastor?

I want to share with you a little about what I feel, hear, see and think as a pastor. Indeed pastoring is the hardest and the most draining and one of the most fulfilling things that I do in life. The reason that I don’t say the most fulfilling is because I believe that theContinue reading “What is it like to be a pastor?”

Leadership Language – New Words for New Situations

What makes our words powerful and effective? What we say, combined with how we live can together offer a synergistic force that can literally change the world (or at least the world around us). So if we are trying to help people become all that they can be, what words should we use and howContinue reading “Leadership Language – New Words for New Situations”

Leadership Language – Old and New

We can attract people with our language and we can turn them off just as quickly with the words we use. Which ones are the right ones? Which ones will not only connect but communicate what we are intending? Furthermore what “baggage” do the words we use carry with them? I want to take aContinue reading “Leadership Language – Old and New”

“So what do you do for your real job?”

So I have been thinking about what pastors do with their time and energy. I can’t tell you the number of times that I have been asked what I do when it is not Wednesday or Sunday. People love to joke that pastors only work two days a week and golf every other day exceptContinue reading ““So what do you do for your real job?””

To those who poured faith and life into me

Life and ministry seem daunting, overwhelming and yes impossible. There are a few people in life who have found the peace that God intends for His people. God desires that His people have peace in the midst of the storm, strength in the midst of weakness and a deeply settled rest in the deepest partContinue reading “To those who poured faith and life into me”

What to do with others’ expectations, part 3

Let us examine a little more closely what we should do with other people’s expectations and our judgments of others. I want to in particular examine some of the negative consequences of our judgments on other people. As a pastor I have often been on the receiving end of living in a ‘fishbowl’ where nearlyContinue reading “What to do with others’ expectations, part 3”