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Your MOST Important Leadership Task: 3 Ways to Lead Your Personal Life

Your most important leadership task is actually not a task. It will be a life-long journey. A reality that needs to be on the forefront of your leadership every single day!

It is the reality of taking care of those who are the closest to you - your spouse, your family, and yourself. This WILL be your most important leadership task…

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Leading Change Well: 3 Ways to Pastor Congregational Change

Fortunately, I have seen:

  • Historymaker jump 10% growth/year in the last 5 years; including 2 HM campuses,

  • Time-out revitalized and influencing more next gen leaders,

  • Planting 3 youth ministries in churches that didn’t have youth programs and representing 85 students,

  • Raising tens of thousands of dollars for next gen initiatives, and

  • Initiating an intentional national leadership certification for next gen leaders with the PAOC.

HOW did this happen? In short, it’s about strategic and intentional CHANGE.

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Are you Ready? Leadership Development for the Next Generation of Leaders

After 17 years of working with the next generation, I have noticed few themes of leadership development that have sticked with the next generation. If you are reading this, I hope this brings clarity on how to engage, recruit, and retain the next generation for your organization, ministry, and/or business.

According to Forbes…

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Entering Into A New Decade: 10 things I have learnt about the last 10 years

As a new decade is on the horizon, the best way to plan + prepare for a new decade is to see what the last decade has taught us. Here are 10 things that I have learnt about the last 10 years.

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5 Leadership Hacks: Practical ways to thrive (not just survive) in Ministry

This post is about how to THRIVE, not just SURVIVE in ministry. After 17 years of ministry, I want to practically share leadership + ministry hacks for you to go further faster in ministry. Not only that, to thrive personally, so that you are not just surviving in ministry. Join the convo and add your hacks in the comments.

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5 takeaways from TO

Timeout is a strategic weekend for NGM leaders + pastors to find rest, renewal, and deepen ministerial relationships. As some of the crew couldn't be at TO this year, I decided to write 5 BIG takeaways. These takeaways are built around the theme of "Strengthening the Habits of Jesus" as personal ministry really determines public effectiveness in ministry. Enjoy (over some good coffee)!

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Why FORMAL Education Still Works for Ministry

To be honest, this is a pet peeve of mine - young leaders thinking formal education is over-rated. I do understand some of their reasons are valid, but the consequences of not having a good education in ministry hurts young leaders in the long haul. This post is about tracking with one of the most influential leaders in the New Testament, The Apostle Paul. He was highly educated and had the ministry "tools" to kick butt. Check it out and add your thoughts to the convo 

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