Joshua: Employing Wisdom in Times of Division
Issue #402, July 9, 2025 Few things need wisdom like trying to divide an inheritance among siblings! Joshua faced this on a national scale as he led the Israelites through the process of dividing up the land into tribal portions. Joshua employed wisdom in this potentially explosive moment and offers serving leaders practical wisdom for […]
Joshua: Applying Wisdom in Strategic Decisions
Issue # 401, June 25, 2025 Joshua led Israel through a series of military campaigns to claim the land God had promised to them. But he didn’t rely on military tactics of his experience—he applied wisdom in his decisions, guided by surrender, obedience and adaptability. Though most serving leaders do not lead armies, they can […]
#354 Timothy: Learning to Reflect
July 19, 2023 Timothy was a young man, eager to save the world as he joined his mentor, Paul. But along the way he learned that leadership is not all about action. Leadership certainly involves the actions leaders take as well as the heart and motives underneath the actions. But leadership also includes the mind, […]
#338 Serving with Authority: Use It
November 23, 2022 Serving leaders don’t avoid authority, they use it to serve! They welcome authority as a way to build others up, move the organization in the direction it needs to go, etc. Paul, as we saw in the last issue, used authority to build others up. Now, let’s reflect on a short statement […]
Barnabas: Serving with a Team
August 3, 2022 Barnabas was an influential leader in the early church, but he didn’t serve alone. Barnabas served with a team. Nearly every reference to Barnabas includes him with at least one other person. This can be seen most clearly at the church in Antioch where Barnabas was sent to provide leadership after a […]
#306 Serving Leaders ask those who follow: “What is in your hand?”
August 4, 2021 Serving leaders long for those who follow to not only learn what to do, but how to think for themselves. So, they ask powerful questions of those who follow and use this one to help develop their leadership capacity. Serving leaders look at the question God asked Moses, “What is in your […]
Serving Leaders Take Sides
February 17, 2021 Leaders are often forced to navigate different sides on many divisive issues of our time. We live in a world that takes sides on political persuasions, social views, health issues, economic perspectives, and many more. The sides chosen by a leader deeply impact their own leadership and those who follow. When a […]
The Act of Choosing Leaders: Popular Selection
April 15, 2020 Leaders choose other leaders to join their team and help carry out the vision. But the process they use to choose varies depending on the context. The Book of Acts provides at least four different ways that the early church selected leaders. One of them was used when the need arose for […]
Learning from Rehoboam: Leaders Choose to whom they Listen
October 16, 2019 To whom do you listen when you have a tough decision to make? Rehoboam, like all leaders, had a choice to make. And the choice of who the leader listens to can have significant outcomes, as it did for Rehoboam. We have already seen that Rehoboam learned that failing to listen would […]
Learning from Rehoboam: Leaders Choose to Listen
October 2, 2019 If I asked you, “Do leaders talk, or listen?” what would be your most likely response? We usually focus more on what leaders say than on how they listen. But the short story of Rehoboam’s early leadership, found in 2 Chronicles 10, has many insights for servant leaders on the art of […]