The Morning After
When it feels like everything is over maybe you’re standing in front of the part you can’t see past right now. There’s another chapter on the other side of that door.
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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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He Gave the Morsel to the Man Going Out to Betray Him
What the last supper says about the quality of love we’re actually called to There’s a detail in John 13 that most people read right past. Jesus is at the Passover table with his twelve closest friends. He knows what’s about to happen. He knows one of them is going to hand him over to…
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The Canoe Got Us Here. It Won’t Get Us There.
What do you do when what got you here, can’t get you there? Just finished “Canoeing the Mountains” by Tod Bolsinger, and I can’t stop thinking about the image at the center of it. A canoe, strapped to exhausted men’s backs, being carried over a mountain range because the river ran out.
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Too Many Referees and Not Enough Players
We have become experts at identifying what’s wrong with everyone else’s ministry while neglecting the mission God actually gave us.
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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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Before They Are Opponents, They Are Family
One of our greatest challenges isn’t theological. It’s relational. And the path forward begins not with them changing first but with me.
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When A Friend Dies
I got a call this morning and I’m still not quite sure how to process it. A longtime member of our congregation died today. And I know that’s part of this. I know that’s the job, I know I’ve done this more times than I can count, but today just hit different, and I’ve been…
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The Front Door Nobody Is Using
The mission infrastructure your congregation needs already exists. Most of it just isn’t pointed at anything yet.
