Accepting Reality By Faith

I can remember when reality broke for me. I was sitting in my kitchen, praying or maybe arguing with God, I can’t remember. It just dawned on me, “My dream is not going to happen, is it?” My dream was linear, being a professional youth pastor for thirty years was supposed translate to making a…

Micro-Managing Pastors vs Hands Off Pastors

I took a recent poll of youth workers, asking them which they hated more: Micro-Managing Pastors or Hands Off Pastosr. The overwhelming answer was the micro-managing pastor was worse. I have worked for both types of pastors and, if had to choose, I would choose the micro manager, not because I like being micro managed…

You May Not Want To Be A Leader If….

Link to photo You might not want to be a leader if… You don’t like criticism. You don’t want to come early and stay late. You don’t like risk. You want everyone to like you. You’d rather be the star of the show. You’d rather sleep late. You’d rather rely on yourself rather on God.…