While Michael Watkins created a framework that helps leaders evaluate the needs of the organization they will be leading, Ken Blanchard developed a framework, famously known as Situational Leadership, that helps leaders evaluate the development needs of each person the leader is leading.
Your Definitive List of Pastor Retreats & Getaways
Ed Stetzer has compiled a long list of numerous camps, retreat centers, bed and breakfasts, and others that have discounted or free opportunities for pastor retreats and their families to take some time away from home, away from everything that surrounds leading the people of God. The list is organized by state.
What I have observed is a tendency for some preachers and teachers to focus too much on the Old Testament, even using pasages taken from it to justify ignoring Jesus' teaching and for others to ignore the Old Testament almost entirely. Our Old Testament was Jesus' Bible and he not only referred to it in his teaching but also he interepretd it for his disciples and the crowds that came to hear him and applied it to their lives.
How the Psalms have been central to worship through history
The Psalms have played an important role in Jewish and Christian tradition from ancient times until today. It is the oldest continually used songbook in human history. This is the story....
Engaging Families During the Back-to-School Season
The back-to-school season is full of incredible opportunities to partner with parents and encourage discipleship in everyday family life.
Did Your VBS Teach the Gospel?
Many lessons geared toward children tell the stories of biblical characters without connecting them to the Bible’s larger story of redemption.
Why Christian Nationalism makes American Christians less Christlike
What if the greatest danger to the witness of Christianity in the United States wasn't an outside threat? What if the danger was closer to home and looked so familiar that it was able to evade detection?
Pakistan: Christians hold open-air services after churches and homes destroyed
Christians in Pakistan were forced to worship in the open air on Sunday after their homes and churches were burnt down by mobs last week. At least five churches were burnt down and 21 more damaged during the wave of violence on 16 August, when thousands of Muslims attacked townships in Jaranwala, Punjab.
Church leaders plead with Israeli government as anti-Christian incidents increase in Holy Land
The incidents have been organized by extremist groups who consider Christians to be enemies of the Jewish people.
Ed Stetzer has compiled a long list of numerous camps, retreat centers, bed and breakfasts, and others that have discounted or free opportunities for pastor retreats and their families to take some time away from home, away from everything that surrounds leading the people of God. The list is organized by state.
The ministry of a pastor is far more stress ful today than in the past and for United Methodist clergy, it is particularly stressful.The Gospel in the Old Testament
What I have observed is a tendency for some preachers and teachers to focus too much on the Old Testament, even using pasages taken from it to justify ignoring Jesus' teaching and for others to ignore the Old Testament almost entirely. Our Old Testament was Jesus' Bible and he not only referred to it in his teaching but also he interepretd it for his disciples and the crowds that came to hear him and applied it to their lives.
How the Psalms have been central to worship through history
The Psalms have played an important role in Jewish and Christian tradition from ancient times until today. It is the oldest continually used songbook in human history. This is the story....
Engaging Families During the Back-to-School Season
The back-to-school season is full of incredible opportunities to partner with parents and encourage discipleship in everyday family life.
Did Your VBS Teach the Gospel?
Many lessons geared toward children tell the stories of biblical characters without connecting them to the Bible’s larger story of redemption.
Why Christian Nationalism makes American Christians less Christlike
What if the greatest danger to the witness of Christianity in the United States wasn't an outside threat? What if the danger was closer to home and looked so familiar that it was able to evade detection?
Pakistan: Christians hold open-air services after churches and homes destroyed
Christians in Pakistan were forced to worship in the open air on Sunday after their homes and churches were burnt down by mobs last week. At least five churches were burnt down and 21 more damaged during the wave of violence on 16 August, when thousands of Muslims attacked townships in Jaranwala, Punjab.
Church leaders plead with Israeli government as anti-Christian incidents increase in Holy Land
The incidents have been organized by extremist groups who consider Christians to be enemies of the Jewish people.
By attacking Christians in the Holy Land, Jewish extremists are fueling anti-Semitism elsewhere and giving ant-Semitic groups justification in their minds to attack Jews.
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