Christian Leadership Alliance
In a future world, where uncertainty is a strategic assumption, one factor still stands as the cornerstone of organizational sustainability: the organization’s core identity with the arrowhead of this identity being the organization’s vision. As important as mission, values, and core principles are for clarity of impact, vision is the leading and guiding light. It … Continue reading Vision as Your North Star
In a world where action comes before thought, it is difficult to be intentional about much of anything. We have become so impatient with thoughtfulness that when we see a post on social media, the pictures fly by so fast that we don’t get a sense for anything of substance. As my team has discussed … Continue reading Building a Platform of Trust
God entrusted the global church with the gospel – to live it, love it, embody it, and share it. Understanding the theological and ethical implications of generative AI (GenAI) is not for the faint of heart. We must embrace all that it means to bear God’s image and practice godly wisdom. This is at the … Continue reading A Human-Centered Digital Mindset
Many years ago, a mentor convinced me that fundraising is ministry. That changed everything. I no longer viewed asking for money as uncomfortable, awkward, or saw development work as “a necessary evil,” as some would term it. His view of donors as those who need ministry transformed how I approached this work. It has forever … Continue reading Capturing Hearts and Minds
Each of us probably has a desire to grow in multiple aspects of our lives. The question is how do we do that and how much time will it take? Putting some structures in place can be helpful. Putting some structures in place can be helpful. While they may take more time initially, these structures … Continue reading Personal Structures for Thriving Leaders
Anyone who has followed the news over the last few years knows that organizations have seemingly been hit with one scandal after another. Scandals, of course, are not new. However, to many observers, recent years have felt different – more scandals involving the CEO, more often at venerated organizations, and therefore more often hitting the … Continue reading Entrusted with Accountability
When I think about managing change, any kind of change, there’s a graphic concept that always comes to mind. The first frame of that graphic, “What we think change looks like,” is a straight ascending arrow pointing confidently from the present into the preferred future. The second frame, “What change actually looks like,” features a … Continue reading Write that Book!
There’s a groundswell happening. Can you feel it? A new movement in Christianity is taking shape among a growing cohort of like-minded Jesus followers. We are diverse in our faith traditions and lived experiences, but we share a calling — to reintroduce our culture to Jesus through unending grace and unconditional love. He Gets Us … Continue reading He Gets Us
While teaching on a very secular university campus last fall, I noticed something strange about the difference between my days and my nights. During the daytime I would teach students who mostly had little if any religious background at all. Many of them struggled to even identify themselves as “atheists” or “agnostics” simply because they … Continue reading Confident in the Gospel
First Corinthians reminds us that our faithful God will not allow us to be tempted by more than we can bear. I trust the Scriptures, but life doesn’t always feel as if this is true. Any Christian leader who has spent more than a few months at the helm has probably encountered this feeling as … Continue reading Leading When Life Is Too Much
