Leadership in Context

Everyone is called. Everyone has a place and position on the wall in the body of Christ. Everyone has a voice to the world. We might have different gifts, but we have the same Lord. We might have a difference of administration but the same spirit. You don’t have to be an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, or teacher to know that you are called. There is a place and a people that you should be c...

God hates sin. He hates what destroys us. He hates the consequences of sin. God loves to forgive sin. But sin still has consequences. And as a leader, you have to not just teach about the consequences of sin, but also point it out. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

All great leaders move in faith. All great leaders have vision. All great leaders understand that they have to operate over their heads. You will never be able to call people to do extraordinary things if you only operate ordinarily. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

Circumstances from hell are designed to cause you to lose traction, cause you to stop moving forward. When you are having circumstances stirred up by hell, you have to put those circumstances in a box. The facts might be accurate, but the Truth is that you will arrive at your destination. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

Moses blew two trumpets to call together all of the tribes and one trumpet to call together his leaders. When he blew the trumpet, those who had ears to hear, those who knew the tune of his heart, would show up. This is a good picture of pastoral ministry--clear leadership and clear communication. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

Great leaders learn to navigate the tension in hearing God and listening to people. Develop your listening. Don’t feel like you have to give an instant answer. Learn to bring the two together. At the end of the day, give God the credit. This is a tension you will always have, so you might as well get good at balancing it out. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

Moses was a wave offering. He left everything behind and was constantly giving it all. You are a wave offering. Having a wave offering mentality is saying, “Everything I am belongs to you, Lord. It’s all Yours.” That needs to be the attitude of every leader.  Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

Giving is a foundation of leadership. As leaders, we should model giving--giving our time, our treasure, and our talent. We teach people to give their life to God by modeling it in our lives. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

All through Moses’ life, we see a passionate, justice-oriented person. Moses has a great plumb line of right and wrong. Sometimes he did really well--he had passion under control, and sometimes he didn’t do as well--he had passion out of control. When he exploded with legitimate passion, it got him into trouble and he made mistakes. There are 3 D’s that lead to leadership mistakes--Demeanor, Disci...

What people have done, what people are doing now, what you think they might do in the future is not a barometer for what God wants you to do. As a leader, you have to ask WHAT God wants you to do and HOW you will do it. HOW you do it may change in light of things, but WHAT God is going to do will not change. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

Our founding fathers were brave and courageous men who understood that their actions or their silence would have grave consequences either way. It is OK to acknowledge that these men were really good in one area and not so great in another, but we can learn from them rather than tearing down their statues. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

To love someone or love something, in the broadest possible terms, does not make it right. We have the capacity to love in a way that glorifies God and blesses our lives or to love in a way that does not glorify God and does not bless our lives.  Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

An instigated vision stirs you up and troubles you so that it can move you to a place you would never have been, making a decision you would never have had the grace to make because God is instigating us and moving you from where you are and revealing more of Who He is.  Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

You can understand someone more by the questions they ask than the answers they have. Wouldn’t it be great if we were the best question askers? Jesus often would answer a question with a question. If you don’t ask the right question, you won’t get the right answer. Let’s start asking the right questions.  Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

You can understand someone more by the questions they ask than the answers they have. Here are some great questions to ask yourself each day: What is my priority today? What can I delegate today? What can be learned today? Who can I help today? Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

If you want to be a good vision-bearer, if you want God to trust you with more vision, you have to first be a steward of that vision. God has to be able to trust you with the details. God has given you a vision to lead something. Write the details down. Then, in the right setting, download those and do it with joy and excitement to liberate the talent that is in other’s lives. Show notes (posted e...

When we discern there are things that are not profitable to the things God has called us to do and the people He has called us to be, how do we handle those distractions? How do we handle those interruptions? A good leader knows how to respond to an opportunity. A good leader is also not drawn away by something that masquerades as an opportunity. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE...

All authority is delegated authority. Anyone with a title, a throne, a dominion, a badge—they are all subject to the authority of God. When they command us to do evil, we do not have to obey those unjust commands. When they want us to participate in evil, then the Church has no responsibility to comply. According to Romans 13, they are only allowed to help us do good and not to do evil. The other...

Man is not basically good. He is basically evil. He is able to commit every vile act and every vile sin. Scripture spends a lot of time establishing the fact that man is evil and must be born again, must get a new nature, must be redeemed, must come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Man needs to be more than reformed; he needs to be transformed. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found...

God is the only just and authoritative lawmaker. All good laws come from God. All laws that need to be judged need to be filtered through God’s laws and His judgment. This is a foundation for righteous thinking. You have to have righteousness before you can have fairness or justice. You have to know what is right. God is the only One who is allowed to say what is right. Man is futile in his attemp...

The first way we see God, in Genesis 1, is that of creator. Not a creator in the sense of a divine spark or evolutionary spark. When God made things, He made them complete. When He made man, He made man complete. When He made an apple tree, He made it complete, not in some kind of evolutionary stage. Many people talk about God as a creator, but they are referring to an initiator, not a creator. Sh...

Often people ask, at what point do we resist? Before there is resistance, there is non-compliance. Resistance is what you DO to push back. Non-Compliance is what you DON’T DO to push back. Non-compliance is not contributing anything that empowers evil. Before we take a stand of non-compliance, we need to have an inward resolve, with integrity. More than just being bothered by something, we need to...

What happens when you try to sow something and cut off the reaping of it? Why has child prevention, what we call contraception today, become so acceptable and in most cases, not even thought through? Are children a blessing, or are just some children a blessing? If all children are a blessing (and they are), are there any other blessings that we work overtime to limit? Show notes (posted every Tue...

We were made in the image of God--made male and female. When those images are blurred, it blurs the image of God. The transgender movement is working to nullify the voice of God in our culture, in people’s lives and nullify the ability to say anything is right or wrong or state something is clearly what it is. Show notes (posted every Tuesday) can be found HERE . 

There are three references in the New Testament that say, “Do not grow weary.” It’s not just becoming weary or letting weary happen to you. There is a process by which weariness happens. Weariness is different than being tired or exhausted. When you are tired, a good night’s sleep or two and a good meal will help you. But weariness is more mental, more emotional. Weariness depletes you; it dissolv...