Breaking All the Rurals

2011 is a few days away and my naturally tendency is to regret. The only day I won't have time to regret is the day I ...

Jesus' birth is surrounded with awe, wonder, and familiar semantics.  Do you know what these words mean? Just in case you are like me and ...

You bought gifts for your children's school teachers (I hope...if you didn't shame on you and do it now), what about their influencer at ...

Conferences are very important to the dreaming, building, and constructing of new vision within any organization. I must go on to say, if you are ...

Within every great leader are leadership blindspots - weaknesses that can cause major damage to the organization. I love the close of a year and all the best/worst list...so here are my blindspots God has revealed to me from 2010:

#1 Vision Casting
I thought the church heard clearly when I shared our vision the first Sunday of the year and still loved it in July. I began this September ...

The Christmas Spirit has saturated me this year. (I even let the cats in my house last night…but just for a few minutes). I love what our culture brings to enhance this time of the year…movies, goodies, decorations and lights. We as the church should leverage these opportunities to promote Christ. Instead on many occasions we have become Scrooges, often making our message one of hate and defensiveness. ...

Church Leadership is an anomaly, puzzling me daily. I do understand one thing...YOU MUST HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE AROUND YOU! Here are four things a staff/team/volunteers should be and provide for every leader.

Refinement -
Your team should polish, prune and improve your leadership. Your team should bring something to the table, not just take from it.

Refreshment -
Energy, Excitement, Expectation and Excellence is refreshing. Philemon 1:20 "...

Continuing this week is the thought of prevailing leadership in the church. Again, after having the privilege to meet several pastors in the last few months these characteristics are OBVIOUS!

#1 Serious about Marriage
Every leader I know, with increasing influence are passionate, about their marriage. They realize their marriage is a picture of their salvation. Jesus is the Groom; we are the Bride...red hot marriage equals a great relationship ...