Fruitful Failure: Find a New Definition of Failure
Issue #433, October 7, 2026 All leaders fail, but not all leaders find ways to make failure fruitful. The fear of failure often keeps leaders from moving forward and the pain of failure keeps them from trying again. Effective leaders turn failures into opportunities to grow by changing their perception of and response to failure. […]
Self-Care: Take Care of Your Growth
Issue #432, September 23, 2026 Great leaders focus on the needs of others—but do not neglect caring for themselves. As we have already seen, they take care of their souls and their bodies. They also find ways to grow and develop their own gifts and calling. Paul calls Timothy to this aspect of self-care: 14Do […]
Self-Care: Take Care of Your Body
Issue #431, September 9, 2026 Leaders often focus on the task at hand and the mission they hope to accomplish, but pay little regard to their own bodies. Paul cautioned Timothy that his leadership was not only a matter of taking care of his soul but also taking care of his body. Consider these verses: […]
Self-Care: Take Care of Your Soul
Issue #430, August 26, 2026 Self-care is not selfish, it’s essential for healthy leadership. But what does it look like in practice? We’ll examine three specific areas in which we need to care for ourselves: our souls, our bodies and our gift. First, in this issue, how we take care of our inner life, our […]
Self-Care: Take Care of Yourself
Issue #429, August 12, 2026 Much of serving leadership is about others. It’s about meeting their needs, serving them, developing them, equipping them, encouraging them. But before leaders can take care of others, they must take care of themselves! In this series we’ll reflect on the advice Paul gave to Timothy about the need to […]
Delegation: The How
Issue #428, July 29, 2026 We’ve answered several questions about delegation from the story of the apostles in the early church. We looked at why we don’t delegate, why we should delegate, how we determine what to delegate and to whom we should delegate. Now, how do we delegate? 1 In those days when […]
Delegation: The Who
Issue #427, July 15, 2026 When you’re ready to delegate, how do you decide who should receive delegate tasks? That’s the focus of this issue and again, we look to the example of the apostles. 1In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic […]
Delegation: The What
Issue #426, July 1, 2026 Of the many things I’m doing, what should I delegate? Effective leaders learn which responsibilities they need to strategically move from their plate to others on their team. Again, we can learn important lessons by observing the actions of the apostles in the early church. 1In those days when the […]
Delegation: The Why
Issue #425, June 17, 2026 If delegation is hard work and doing the work myself is easier, why should I delegate tasks to others? Consider the story from the early church: 1 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their […]
Your Work Today Matters: It Echoes into Eternity
Issue #423, May 20, 2026 Will anything we do today in the physical world matter in eternity? Consider the vision of the eternal kingdom shared by John and Isaiah. Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer […]