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Who are Good Leaders?

Who are Good Leaders?

A friend of mine just asked me over lunch, “Who are some good leaders?” Having been wrestling on some writing projects involving...

Vision Hiding Personal Ambition

Vision Hiding Personal Ambition

From Upside Down: The Paradox of Servant Leadership by Stacy Rinehart: What is called ‘vision’ can be merely a ‘spiritually...

Transforming the Leader

Transforming the Leader

Moral character and virtue play a significant role in leadership. Current research is growing more and more convinced of the vital role that...

The Paradox of Power and Service

The Paradox of Power and Service

Servant leadership is seen as a paradox of leading through giving up power and serving others. This oxymoron is usually framed as a contrast of power...

Leadership Under Authority

Leadership Under Authority

My doctoral colleague, David Wright, posted the following in a recent discussion forum: “…leadership is never totally mastered and leadership...

Living this love is not so easy  

Newly knighted Bono’s confession: “My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that...

Vision is Not From the Leader

Vision is Not From the Leader

I like Thom Rainer’s insights into vision in the church. Rainer writes that one thing breakout churches have “in common [is] a vision...

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

Dr. Bekker (my doctoral advisor at Regent SGL) wrote on The Difficult Road of Forgiveness. Well worth the read.

Blessed are the Meek…Leaders

Blessed are the Meek…Leaders

In his piece on meekness in leadership, Mark Rutland defines meekness as “power under control”. Decades ago, E. Stanley Jones, the great...

Rev. Billy Graham

The Vocation of the Pulpit

“One of the great pleasures in life is conversation.” — Sydney Smith, 19th Century English essayist What is the point of preaching? Preaching...