A Healthy Leader is Godly When Adversity Comes

Several years ago adversity came my way from a fellow believer. It would be nice to say, “I took the high road and honored the Lord with my actions.” I did neither. I took the low road and damaged my relationship with this person AND dishonored the Lord with my actions. I’ll never forget theContinue reading “A Healthy Leader is Godly When Adversity Comes”

A Healthy Leader Exhibits Servant Leadership

If you do a quick Google search, or even better, search Amazon, you will see a myriad of material written about servant leadership. Licioni, Maxwell, Covey, Collins, etc. I suppose you could read a book a week on servant leadership for several years and still not exhaust the written material available on the subject. AsContinue reading “A Healthy Leader Exhibits Servant Leadership”

A Healthy Leader is Patient and Consistent

During a morning devotion last week, I was reading Luke 8-10. In Luke 8:15, Jesus says, As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience. Luke 8:15 (See also Matthew 13 and Mark 4) I stopped when I read,Continue reading “A Healthy Leader is Patient and Consistent”

A Healthy Leader Disciples Others Regularly

In my disciplemaking book for bivocational pastors, I share about my friend Tyler in Kentucky. Tyler came to Christ in 2013 in a dramatic way and started praying that the Lord would send him someone to help him learn more about the Bible, and how to walk as a believer and encourage him as heContinue reading “A Healthy Leader Disciples Others Regularly”

Disciplemaking and a Forgotten Bible: A Disciple is Not Interested, Now What?

Several years ago, I was visiting my friend in his office and noticed the same Bible had been on an end table in his sitting area. I asked about it, and he said, “I keep that there to remind me some disciples simply don’t make it.” My friend had been meeting with another believer andContinue reading “Disciplemaking and a Forgotten Bible: A Disciple is Not Interested, Now What?”

“Faithful Men: Disciple Making for the Busy Pastor”

During winter vacation in late 2020, I wrote a ten-page PDF document encouraging bivo/covocational pastors to create a disciple-making strategy and a reproducing culture in their church. As I shared it with a few friends and received feedback, I realized I had much more to say than what I included in my ten-page document. AmazonContinue reading ““Faithful Men: Disciple Making for the Busy Pastor””

Starting a Local Leader’s Cohort: Six Principles Toward Starting a ‘Band of Brothers’

Eccles. 4:12 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Six Principles in Starting a Band of Brothers Sometime in 2016, I took a church revitalization elective at MBTS as part of the requirements for a degree program. Dr. Rodney Harrison and anotherContinue reading “Starting a Local Leader’s Cohort: Six Principles Toward Starting a ‘Band of Brothers’”