#370 Secure Leaders Develop Others
March 27, 2024 We have examined several significant actions of secure leaders and recognized that secure leaders are serving leaders. They demonstrate their leadership security as they serve by encouraging, delegating, embracing differences, and accepting mistakes. These actions all lead to the final one, developing others. Developing others is both the outcome of these actions […]
#369 Secure Leaders Accept Mistakes
March 13, 2024 Leaders make mistakes and those they lead make mistakes! But there are many ways that leaders respond to the mistakes. Their response indicates their own level of security as a leader. The story of Joseph is a model of leadership in many ways. When Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery, it was […]
#368 Secure Leaders Embrace Differences
February 28, 2024 Secure leaders serve those they lead by embracing differences. Instead of being threatened by differences, they see differences as a strength. The leadership team in Antioch was filled with five remarkably secure leaders. 1 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, […]
#367 Secure Leaders Delegate
February 14, 2024 Delegation is hard! It’s not easy to release power and allow others to do what you do well. Yet delegation is an essential part of effective leadership. Elijah illustrates how secure leaders are able to release power to their followers. 9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can […]
#366 Secure Leaders Encourage
January 31, 2024 In the previous issue we looked at how Jesus was a secure leader because He knew His authority, identity and destiny. His security allowed him to serve His disciples. Now, we’ll look at several ways that secure leaders serve those they lead—first by encouraging. The story of Barnabas gives us a beautiful […]
#365 Secure Leaders are Serving Leaders
January 17, 2024 How secure are you in your leadership role? And how does your personal security as a leader impact your ability to serve others? In this series we’ll examine the differences between secure and insecure leaders and discover why secure leaders are serving leaders. Many persons in positions of leadership are insecure but […]
#355 Timothy: Leaving Baggage Behind
August 9, 2023 Timothy, like all of us, became a leader with all his life experiences, memories and circumstances. While many of these were good and beneficial; others were not helpful and could have been hinderances to his ability to lead. Metaphorically we can refer to unresolved issues, disappointments, wrongs, and trauma from the past […]
Paul’s Leadership Pipeline: Love Them
#349, May 17, 2023 We have observed how Paul developed Timothy, one of the emerging leaders on his team. There were many deliberate acts of serving leadership that Paul took with Timothy and each is instructive. But in this final issue we’ll step back from some of the specific actions to the heart that shaped […]