Joshua: Finding Wisdom for Leadership
Issue #398, May 14, 2025 Leadership challenges quickly show us how much we need wisdom—more than knowledge alone, we need the ability to act correctly in difficult moments. This is the essence of wisdom: applying what we know and experience to make sound judgments and decisions. Knowledge relates to what we know; wisdom relates to […]
#390 Serving Leaders Follow Those Ahead of Them
#390, January 22, 2025 In the last issue, we examined how serving leaders follow those in authority over them as Paul followed Christ. In this issue, we’ll focus on how leaders follow those ahead of them. Serving leaders today have the privilege not only of following those in authority over them, but also following other […]
#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 […]
#353 Timothy: Learning the Word
July 12, 2023 One of the many things Timothy needed to learn as a church leader was how to understand, apply and teach the scriptures. As a follower of Jesus, this was his essential textbook for life and leadership. Consider these exhortations from Paul: 15and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which […]
Timothy: Hungry to Learn
#350, May 31, 2023 In the previous series we looked at what Paul did as a serving leader to develop his leadership pipeline. Our primary focus was on what Paul did to help Timothy grow in leadership. In this series we’ll flip the focus to Timothy and look at what he did that helped develop […]
#348 Paul’s Leadership Pipeline: Encourage Them
April 19, 2023 We have reflected on several deliberate actions that Paul took to develop his leadership pipeline strategically moving people from one level to the next in their capacity. One action that Paul continually practiced was encouraging those he wanted to develop. Consider these examples from his communication with Timothy: For this reason […]
#347 Paul’s Leadership Pipeline: Follow Them
April 5, 2023 Serving leaders empower others and are thrilled to see people developing and released, but they are not blind to the need for accountability. As Paul worked with Timothy and others in his leadership pipeline, he released them, but he also followed them to ensure that they were moving in the right direction. […]
#346 Paul’s Leadership Pipeline: Release Them
March 22, 2023 Paul deliberately called a team of emerging leaders around him and they traveled together, learning and developing as they journeyed from one place to another. As we observed in the previous issue there was a time of sending Timothy and others out and back again, stretching and expanding their leadership capacity. […]
#345 Paul’s Leadership Pipeline: Stretch Them
March 8, 2023 Paul’s vision required a leadership pipeline that would continue to raise up mature leaders. So, as we have seen, he chose them, prepared them, showed them the way, and empowered them. One of the ways he empowered others was to give them assignments that stretched them. An example of this is seen […]
344 Paul’s Leadership Pipeline: Empower Them
February 22, 2023 Paul carefully chose those who would follow him, he deliberately prepared them for their assignment, and he used his own life and leadership to show them how to lead. All those steps laid a foundation for Paul to begin developing the leadership capacity of Timothy and others on his team. Paul then […]