31-Day Proverbs Challenge
Following Jesus is incredibly personal, but it was never meant to be done alone. Jesus is honored by our intentional pursuit of Him...
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- Feb 1
- 3 min
Navigating the Year Ahead (part 3)
How do we view others? Some people walk into a room and feel alive with the buzz of people, energized at the potential of new friends!...
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- Jan 15
- 3 min
Navigating the Year Ahead (part 2)
“When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about...
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- Jan 1
- 3 min
Navigating the Year Ahead (part 1)
Planned or unplanned we find ourselves at the end of each year looking back wondering and asking, what happened? What did I accomplish?...
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- Dec 1, 2022
- 3 min
Why "Merry" Christmas?
Have you ever wondered why we say “Merry Christmas” instead of Happy Christmas? We say Happy Birthday, Happy Easter, and Happy Mother’s...
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- Jul 1, 2022
- 2 min
Power Games
How do you treat others who can never pay you back? We all find ourselves in very real scenarios where we hold varying amounts of power. ...
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- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
When They Don't Care
How do we impact a culture that less and less cares about what we have to say as Christians? Short answer: We live like Jesus. If that is...
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- May 1, 2022
- 2 min
Successful Pastoral Onboarding
An employee onboarding process is the systematic and clear transformation of a promising new hire into a long-term healthy staff fit. By...
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- Apr 1, 2022
- 3 min
3 Reasons to Say “I Don’t Know” More Often
I want to know the right answer. I want to be able to give the right answer. So do you. Our educational system is built to help us know...
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- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
Women Pastors, Elders, Preachers?
What do you do when an issue does not have clarity in scripture? Or better yet, what do you do when opposing views believe the issue is...
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- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
4 Tips to Better Bible Reading
How do you read the bible? When you open your bible on your phone or the one that sits on your shelf, what runs through your mind? Are...
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- Jan 1, 2022
- 2 min
19 Things No One Told Me About Leadership
I have compiled, added to, and continue to edit this list as I synthesize my own lived experience. I was probably told a version of all...
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- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
6 Ways to Celebrate Christmas amid Over-Commercialization
What if, instead of being frustrated at the over-commercialization of the Christmas season, we saw it as an opportunity? I get the idea...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
2 Processes to Never Neglect
Think back to your first visit to a new church. Did you like it? Did you come back? Did anyone notice you? Likely the way you experienced...
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- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
Deconstruction of Faith
I am meeting more and more people who feel like spiritual orphans. They grew up in a church, they went off to college, started a career,...
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- Oct 15, 2021
- 4 min
Abuse in Church
Do I share my story? Do I share friend’s stories? Do I pick on a denomination? Do I pull a quote from the New York Times? Sadly, abuse of...
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- Oct 1, 2021
- 4 min
3 Big Early Leadership Ah Ha’s!
There are a ton of books on leadership development, vision, delegation, moving from intern to executive and plenty of others with catchy...
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- Sep 16, 2021
- 5 min
4 Things I Wish I New Before Hiring A Pastor
I have hired a lot of ministry staff. Hundreds of volunteers, dozens of paid interns and multiple pastoral staff including being part of...
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- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Bible vs Jesus
I follow Jesus, not the bible. Obviously. Yet, even as I write that it causes an unease and I am sure for many who have grown up in...
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- Aug 15, 2021
- 4 min
Grace Expected
Have you asked others for grace? Or like me, have you received an email that said, “thanks for your grace” as a not-so-subtle way of...
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