Why Leaders Walk Towards Barking Dogs

You’ve just found out that petty arguments might be brewing among staff in your youth department. What do you do? You’ve noticed that weekly giving is slipping below projections. What do you do? You’ve picked up on the news that your board is spending a lot of time discussing matters that really don’t further the…

How Leaders Know When to "Be Still"

Last night I was reminded of a powerful leadership truth as I read the story of one of the great leaders in the bible. The timing of this reminder couldn’t have been better. I was reading the account in Exodus where the Israelites were trapped at the Red Sea, with the armies of Pharaoh thundering…

Guest post by Carey Nieuhof – Are You Actually Attracting Unchurched People?

Today’s guest post comes from Carey Nieuhof, lead pastor at Connexus Church, with campuses in Barrie and Orillia, Ontario. Carey is one of Canada’s sharpest Kingdom leaders, and in today’s post he poses a question that I believe every church leader in Canada needs to wrestle with; ‘Are we REALLY attracting unchurched people to our…