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Tag: Personal Growth

How to Lead Authentically

A Pastor’s Guide to Healthy Transparency Leadership is often associated with strength, confidence, and authority. However, vulnerability is a trait that should not be overlooked in leadership. Vulnerability can help leaders build stronger relationships with their team members, foster trust and authenticity, and create a more positive and supportive work environment. This is particularly important in the context of the church, if leaders desire to cultivate leaders who multiply with impact.  In this blog, we…Continue Reading

Leading from the Overflow

To LEAD from a PLACE of overflow, you have to live from the PRACTICE of intake. Daily leading is draining. If we are not careful, the demand to continually give and serve others can leave us empty. And, an empty leader is not a healthy leader. I’ve never been able to make wise decisions, manage my emotions, or lead with pure motives when my soul is on E. It fascinates me that Jesus said, “My…Continue Reading

What Will You be 5 Years from Now?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Let’s make a deal. I’ll give you $100 if you stop brushing your teeth for the next five years. No? Okay, how about $1000? It’s unlikely there is an amount of money I could give you to stop brushing your teeth. Lousy breath aside, you don’t want the cavities, gingivitis, and the whole host of other problems not brushing your teeth would produce. Dental hygiene aside, what type of person do you want to…Continue Reading

Get a Great Start on Your 2021 Goals

When I was a Dallas Seminary student, Dr. Howard Hendricks had us write 1, 5, 10, and 20-year goals for our lives. It was a difficult assignment, but one of the most practical of my seminary career. I used that 12-page document as a guide for my life for many years following seminary.  Hendricks told us, “Show me a man with a set of well-defined goals, and I’ll show you a man on his way…Continue Reading

10 Questions to Stimulate Your Growth

Great questions stimulate greater thinking, ideas, motivation, and ultimately personal growth. Here are ten questions that will help you grow in your leadership.  What 5 books should I read in the remainder of the year? (Here are 5 I recommend taking a new employee through https://bit.ly/3bhKwlm) Who are 3 leaders I can meet with and learn from? (What are 10 questions I will ask them?) What 5 companies, churches or organizations should I be learning…Continue Reading