Podcast: The Emotionally Healthy Leader

Hiring new staff (paid or volunteer) is one of the most difficult responsibilities of church leadership.  The difference between the right hire and the wrong hire will have long-term consequences in your church. Two weeks ago on the podcast, I…

Churches around the world are rebuilding in a post-pandemic world. Leaders are assembling new teams and desperately trying to fill vacant positions. The temptation to cut corners in your hiring process (paid or volunteer) is ENORMOUS. When you feel…

Today, very few church leaders feel like they are winning. We look at our churches compared to what they used to be or what we’d like them to be, and it’s hard to feel like we’re making a real difference. So we’re faced with a…

Great news! I’m officially back from my summer sabbatical and I’m excited to share with you insights from my time away.  In the 3rd – 5th centuries, early Christian men and women fled to the desert to escape the moral compromise in the church and…

One of the most destructive temptations leaders face is living and leading from the veneer of a “false self”. In other words, we project an image of how we’d like to be perceived, rather than living from truth.    In today’s podcast, I share…

Many leaders today believe that if we’re going to get things done and be successful, we must “take the bull by the horns”. We are told that strength and power win in the economy of leadership. In today’s podcast, I share a sermon that explores the…

Today on the podcast, I share a part of an interview I did earlier this year with the Canadian Church Leaders Network. I expanded upon what I see as one of God’s purposes for pouring out His Spirit – giving us the power to die.

For too many years, I thought being a peacemaker was simply being a nice person. Because of this illusion, I spiritualized my conflict avoidance and created a culture in my church where everyone pretended things were ok. This is the definition…

I spent my early years avoiding conflict. True peacemaking, when understood correctly, actually comes through disrupting false peace. In today’s podcast, I share a sermon that goes deeper into this new understanding. I assure you…it changes everything.

Many pastors have been professionally educated and extensively trained. The problem is – we are facing a massive discipleship crisis. I’ve found that much of our training doesn’t help get at the root of this problem. Deep change requires…