Leadership

Podcast Highlight – Episode 128: Finishing Well with Tom Elliff

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

7 Characteristics of Pastoral Leaders Who Don’t Give Up Easily

I spent a few minutes recently with a pastor who’s led his church for 25+ years. Seeing him […]

Chuck Lawless

Episode 145: Leading from Weakness with Dr. Brian Autry

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

10 Characteristics of Leaders Who Last

As a seminary professor, I work with young leaders. I have learned the most, though, from leaders who […]

Chuck Lawless

A Simple Acronym for C.H.A.N.G.E.

As much as churches seem to stay the same it may be surprising that many pastors struggle to […]

Jeff Mingee

6 More Leadership Tasks for this Easter

Here are six steps Christian leaders might take this week as we focus on the resurrection and live […]

Chuck Lawless

Episode 138: Leadership from the Pulpit with Dr. Scott Pace

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

Episode 125: Lessons on Leadership with Dr. Danny Akin

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

12 Questions to Evaluate Your Church’s Culture

Every church has a culture, whether it be positive or negative. The problem, though, is that too few […]

Chuck Lawless

3 Reasons Leaders Don’t Seek Advice from Others

Learning from Cyprian of Carthage (195–258 AD): Edward L. Smith in Augustine as Mentor writes that Cyprian of […]

Jeremy Bell

Leading Your Church Through Change

If you have ever been whitewater rafting, you know how important the role of the guide is. The responsibility for getting the rafters through the rapids safely falls to the guide. A rafting guide must know the river well, aware of the shallow and dangerous sections that might stop the rafts or even cause them to flip.

Philip Crouse Jr.

Episode 51: Pastors and Leadership (with Juan Sanchez)

In this week’s episode, Ronjour and Brandon discuss leadership with Dr. Juan Sanchez (Pastor of High Pointe Baptist Church).

Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

Heart-Orienting Truths for Navigating Conflict

It is inevitable. At some point, probably soon, you will encounter some form of conflict in ministry. Maybe it will come in the form of a disagreement among your elders, pastors, or deacons. Conflict may arise from a misunderstanding between you and your spouse. It could be that there are a few sandpaper-people in your life, and when they come around, discord follows behind them. It is not a matter of if, but when. Conflict will come.

Jesse Welliver

Leading with Bias

Our current world is talking constantly about bias. You can be sure that you reveal your biases to others as they watch, listen, and learn from you. While it is essential that we are aware of our biases, we must be careful not to throw out all bias. We likely cannot and arguably should not avoid all types of bias.

Kevin Hall

Leading Difficult Team Members

Difficult team members can hamper team success and team members’ satisfaction. Often, we talk about the toxic person or how to get the right people in the right seat of the bus (or the wrong person off the bus completely). These are worthwhile conversations to have, but not to the exclusion of first making an investment in the lives of hurting or difficult people.

Kevin Hall