Good Shepherds Smell Like Sheep
If we don’t smell like sheep, the sheep will never trust us or follow us. Leaders need to be where their people are.
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Two Kinds of Hunger
Two parallel lines that never cross cannot make each other more bold. What would happen if these paths could cross?
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Twenty Miles Doesn’t Change What We Lost
A correction to my last post: the nearest LCMS congregations to the two Iowa churches that closed are about 20 miles away, not 30-60 like I originally wrote.
I’m glad to fix that in the open. But it doesn’t change what I think this closure actually cost because the people I was really writing about were never going to close that distance, whether it was 20 miles or 60.
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Governance Isn’t Glamorous, But The Wrong Type Can Slow You Down
Nobody joins a church board dreaming about bylaws. But I’ve become convinced governance isn’t the boring prerequisite to mission it’s the thing that either frees your church to move or quietly strangles its ability to.
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The Volunteer Pipeline Nobody Builds Until They’re Desperate
Every organization builds its leadership pipeline the same way: in a panic, three weeks before it’s needed.
Here’s the shift that actually fixes it — stop asking “who can fill this?” and start asking “who am I developing right now, whether I need them yet or not?”
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What My Chickens Are Teaching Me This Season
If you would have told me ten years ago that I’d live on 13 acres with about twenty chickens and a substantial garden, I would likely have laughed in your face. But here we are. And I’m loving it. But I will tell you that life on a farm, even a mini farm, isn’t for…
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You Were Never Meant to Carry It All
There’s a strange tension that nobody really prepares you for when the thing you’re leading grows past what you can personally hold. For a pastor, it’s the congregation. For a manager, it’s the team. For a parent, it might just be the family table getting louder and more complicated. But the tension is the same:…
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The Fights Worth Having
We had one of those conversations. You know the kind. It starts over something small. Something that, if you wrote it down, later wouldn’t even sound worth mentioning. Tone was off. Timing was bad. Somebody said something a little sharper than they meant to. And before long, you’re not talking about that thing anymore. You’re…
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How to Course-Correct Without Shame
Realizing you’ve drifted isn’t failure—it’s clarity. Learn how to course-correct without shame, reset your spiritual direction, and realign your life with grace and purpose.
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Drift Is The Enemy
Most people don’t fail their New Year goals because they quit they drift. Learn why drift is more dangerous than quitting and how to choose clarity, direction, and faithfulness for the year ahead.
