Leadership: Let Excellence be Your Minimum Standard

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. - Booker T. Washington.  Servant leadership is service with excellence, and excellence should be your minimum standard. Excellence is an attitude of doing your best for people and making it a habit of your best.  Excellence creates a distinction between a good leader and …

Leadership: A Game of Follow the Leader

Congratulations, leader. You have signed up for a journey of a lifetime called leadership. The ride will consist of ups and downs, pressure and releases, anger and joy, and countless other emotions.

Keep Your Hands on the Table: Building Trust In Your Leadership

Accountability must be at the forefront to lead with clean hands. It is providing answers before being asked.

Time to Leave the Tent

There comes a time in your life when God has to take you outside your tent to show you there are stars to numerous to count in your future. Staying inside limits your vision.

Time to Leave the Tent

There comes a time in your life when God has to take you outside your tent to show you there are stars to numerous to count in your future. Staying inside limits your vision.

What I Am Reading

When my years ahead of me are few than those behind me, I want to write this same book.  David Green, the Founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, writes an authentic, transparent book about leadership and stewardship.  Green is a Christian business owner who shares how he values his employees over profit. He honors his family …

Time to Leave the Tent

There comes a time in your life when God has to take you outside your tent to show you there are stars to numerous to count in your future. Staying inside limits your vision.

Organize or Agonize

For years I led an inner city ministry which relied greatly on buses.  Many weeks as we would get ready to go pick up children with the buses, the buses wouldn't turn. Click. Click. Click would be what we would hear.  Sometimes a battery would be dead.  Other times, an alternator would be out. After …

Everyone Needs a Pastor

Everyone needs a pastor.  Folk hear me say that often.  This past Sunday, I found myself leading one of my leaders through a tough situation. He had gotten to the end of his rope and called asking if he could just come and simply sit awhile.  I do a lot of things pastoral where I …

Think Everyone Wants To Go Where You Are Going?