High Schoolers: Before You Figure Out Your Future, Figure This Out

What are you going to do after high school? Where will you go to college? What career will you choose? Where will you live? What will your life look like? Whether you’re a freshman or a senior, eventually people start asking questions about your future. And those are important questions. But there may be an […]

Leadership – The Law of Investment

There comes a point in every leader’s life when the definition of success has to change. Early on, success is often measured by what you accomplish. What did you build? What did you achieve? How many people showed up? How much did it grow? How far did you go? Those aren’t necessarily bad questions. Results matter. But […]

What is servant Leadership really?

I’ll be honest. About ten minutes after I first heard the term servant leadership, something about it bothered me. I didn’t want it to. It sounded spiritual. Humble. Right. But there was something inside me that kept saying, That’s not the whole truth. At first, I was embarrassed that I felt that way. So I did what […]

Study, Teach, and Pray.

What if all a pastor had to do… was what Jesus commanded him to do? Study.Teach.Pray. What if that was it? What if the pastor’s primary responsibility wasn’t managing programs, attending every meeting, solving every dispute, answering every text within five minutes, visiting every hospital room personally, planning every event, and carrying the emotional weight […]

The Reins of Leadership.

Sometimes people are pushed and pushed and pushed to take the reins of leadership. The pressure to do this over time causes them to finally take the reins but in the wrong way. Rash decisions are made and unintended hurt is caused. Why? Because the people that were pushing them to take the reins never […]

Unsettled

Sometimes I come up with plans of how to accomplish a vision. Plans that in my mind will work great. Plans that I get attached too. Maybe I attach myself to these plans because that gives me a level of security or maybe I attach myself to these plans because I do not like living […]