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Welcome to my blog post on “Level Up Your Leadership Skills: Essential Insights and Tips”! Whether you’re a seasoned leader or just starting out, this post is for you. We’re here to share valuable insights and practical tips that will help you enhance your leadership abilities through three articles I have read this week. So, let’s dive right in and discover how you can take your leadership skills to the next level.
If ever the world needed The Salvation Army soldier, it is now. May the Holy Spirit work in us to be the holy, set apart fighting force he has called The Salvation Army to be.
When it comes to God and politics, he commands us to praying for our political leaders, a powerful act that contributes to the public good.
Hey there! Looking to take your leadership skills to the next level? I’ve got you covered! In this week’s blog post, I have handpicked the best leadership articles that will help you unlock your true potential. Whether you’re a seasoned leader or just starting out, these articles are filled with invaluable insights and practical tips. So, without further ado, let’s dive right in and discover the best leadership articles that you don’t want to miss!
Discover how AI can empower pastors, but tread carefully. AI for pastors brings efficiency to tasks, but integrity in teaching remains paramount. Learn more!
What is my identity in Christ? It’s easy to lose sight of our true identity. But as Christians, we have a unique and powerful identity that sets us apart.
CeCe Winans’ Worthy of It All lyrics remind us just how much Jesus Christ is worthy of our praise and worship.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. So here are three articles I found helpful this week – 1 September 2023.
My Number 1 Rule for a more effective church meeting is to ban Any Other Business. It is a time- and morale-saver!
What does the pursuit of happiness mean? It’s important to find a balance between gratitude, faith, and other elements that contribute to our well-being.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. So here are three articles I found helpful this week – 25 August 2023.
Would Jesus be excluded from becoming a Salvation Army soldier? Does soldiership exclude most people in today’s society, or is it meant to be inclusive?
May we each move from God forgives I don’t, to God forgives, and in his power, so do I.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. So here are three articles I found helpful this week – 18 August 2023.
Are you overwhelmed by email? Good office email etiquette can help us be more effective and productive. This is part eight of an eight-part series on how to manage your email inbox.
The stories of Jesus and storms are ones of hope, reassurance, and reliance on him as a source of strength and guidance in facing the challenges of life.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. So here are three articles I found helpful this week – 11 August 2023.
One tip for being an effective leader: A leader needs to spend significant time in solitude – to think and to reflect – in order to be successful. Otherwise, we can never focus on what really matters.
Sabbath and the art of rest is about more than just being tired or having a holiday. It’s about enjoying God’s presence and pursuing his purpose for our lives.
Brandon Lake’s Praise You Anywhere lyrics remind us that we can sing of our confidence in God, even in the most difficult circumstances.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. So here are three articles I found helpful this week – 4 August 2023.
Are you overwhelmed by email? Writing good emails can help us be more effective and productive. This is part seven of an eight-part series on how to manage your email inbox.
Do dogs go to heaven? Yes, and we should all share that hope with the people around us who miss their pets so dearly.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. So here are three articles I found helpful this week – 28 July 2023.
As a leader, you need regular times for review and reflection to ensure you stay on top of your priorities. A quarter review process helps.
Small groups are a way that we can experience the love of God in our lives. Relationships are nurtured, spiritual growth takes place, church is more personal.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. So here are three articles I found helpful this week – 21 July 2023.
Are you overwhelmed by email? Email templates can help us be more effective and productive. This is part six of an eight-part series on how to manage your email inbox.
It’s important to show love and unity in the church. It’s a key element of God’s church, and it’s something that all Christians should strive for.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. So here are three articles I found helpful this week – 14 July 2023.
Are you overwhelmed by email? When it comes to business email etiquette, there is one thing you can do to manage the tide of email. This is part five of an eight-part series on how to manage your email inbox.
God is gracious and merciful. Through repentance and faith in him we can be reconciled and experience God’s grace here on earth and heaven.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Are you overwhelmed by email? Are you looking for how to implement mobile email management so that you’re not stressed out from receiving emails 24/7 wherever you are? This is part four of an eight-part series on how to manage your email inbox.
Jesus brings freedom from sin. He came to earth, died on a cross, and rose from the dead so we could be forgiven and live with him forever.
It’s hard to stay on top of the best leadership articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Are you overwhelmed by email? Would you love to get to inbox zero? Here’s an inbox zero method that’s easy to implement. This is part three of an eight-part series on how to manage your email inbox.
As Christians, we can learn how to deal with stress and anxiety head on when we know how much our Heavenly Father loves us.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
When it comes to the leader and time management, if you are a people person you need more time management, not less.
If you’re having a hard time connecting with God, try to remember that he’s a good father who loves us and wants what’s best for us.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
If a leader is serious about being healthy and living life in sync with the rhythms that God built into our world by taking a Sabbath rest every seven days, then they must prepare for it during the other six days.
Deciding to follow Jesus means making tough choices. Here’s four questions to ask before making your decision.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Are you overwhelmed by email? Do you want to know how to manage your Outlook inbox? Here’s one lifeline for surviving email overload in Outlook. This is part two of an eight-part series.
God has given humans stewardship of his creation. If we want our world to be a better place, we need to start by making small changes in our own lives and communities.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Leaders are readers, and many readers are leaders, but there never seems enough time to finish the reading that helps us learn and grow as leaders. Holidays free up that time. How do we continue reading when we return home?
A Christian without the power of the Holy Spirit isn’t much use to the Kingdom either. The events of Pentecost serve to remind us what a life-changing difference the indwelling power of God’s Spirit can make in our lives.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Are you overwhelmed by email? Over the past twenty years, email has become a staple way for us to communicate. But many of us feel like we’re drowning in it. We need to know how to manage our email inbox. This is part one of an eight-part series on how to manage your email inbox.
Where are the women in Christianity? Where do we see women in ministry in the Bible? Sometimes, we have to read women back into the Bible.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Let’s thank God for all that is past in The Salvation Army, but let us also show that we trust him for all that’s to come by cheerfully, eagerly, and energetically engaging with the work he has for us to do.
How do leaders avoid overcommitting themselves and drowning in extra work? Here are two tips to help.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
The busier I am the more margin I need. One way to ensure there is margin in my work, is to plan out an Ideal Week.
As King Charles makes his pledges before God this weekend, let’s take the opportunity to pledge again to obey and serve God and show the power of servant leadership.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
One of the biggest culprits in making me less effective in my life and work is interruptions, and one major source of it is technology. I’m distracted at work by phone notifications. It negatively affects work life balance from a Christian perspective. How can we tame our devices to be more productive?
In Psalm 23, God anoints our heads with oil with such generosity that our cups will overflow with blessing! Now, that’s worth celebrating and worth sharing with others. Who could you share the good news with today?
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Being a pastor or Christian leader can sometimes feel lonely. But resilience is not just down to us as an individual.
To be spiritually fruitful, we need to be connected with Jesus at all times so that we can hear his voice when he speaks through Scripture and other people around us who are following him too.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
What should be our priorities in ministry? You can use your “yes” to prioritise the most important tasks you do each week.
If you’re looking for some quick tips on how to show God’s love in your life, then look no further than these 59 One Anothers in the Bible to help us treat each other with kindness and grace.
On Resurrection Sunday we are reminded the resurrection of Jesus has the power to make the difference between fear and faith in our lives.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Palm Sunday is the day we celebrate Jesus coming in all his glory and power. At the same time, Jesus taught us that he came to serve us as a servant. How can these two things be reconciled?
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
David knew that even though he found himself in the storms of life, God was still with him—and that gave him peace and rest.
Come with me now on an adventure into the world of our mothering God and discover how this relationship with our heavenly Father can change your life forever!
The most important part of being a pastor is loving your people well—and that means building relationships with them over time.
Salvationists often speak of “Only the Best for the Highest”. But what does it mean to give God your best? How can I be sure I’m living up to my full potential?
The only way to be saved from our sins is through faith in Christ alone. We can’t do anything to earn our own salvation, nor can we earn God’s mercy. Salvation is a free gift from God.
Resist the temptation to want more, focus on all you have and appreciate it.
By planning out our Sunday sermons ahead of time and taking stock of each new week with a Weekly Preview, pastors are able to stay focused and get through everything that needs doing before Sunday arrives!
God’s Kingdom is based on relationships, on connection. You and I are connected with God and we are connected with each other. And part of that friendship – that being a family – is talking, it’s good conversation.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
If every Christian leader – every Christian – myself included decided simply to be with Jesus, then all other godly goals we might long for would simply fall into place.
Jesus commands us to love God and to love others. You cannot command something that just happens. So love isn’t uncontrollable. It’s a choice. It’s a commitment.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Whilst I spend time in prayer at the beginning of every work day offering the day to God, I want to become more intentional about spending time before God with my to do list and discerning his priorities and not mine.
If your situation seems hopeless, it is not. God is in control of it all. At just the right time, he will act.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Love God, love others. It is clear from the tributes paid to Joan during her funeral service that she and George took this mission seriously. Liam challenged us all that we should do the same, following in their footsteps. It’s a good challenge! Many of us are engaged in ministry and service to others each week. But God needs all of his Salvation Army to be mobilised.
Whatever you are going through at the moment, Jesus is with you. He loves you and he is interceding for you. Let’s keep our eyes fixed on him, whatever storms of life we might face this year and beyond.
A human relationship withers if we don’t invest in it. The same is true of our relationship with God. What ways might you invest in life with your heavenly Father this year?
Salvationists are called to be visible followers of Jesus. We are called to visibly stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.
It is only when God’s love is flowing into me as it should, that I have that love to flow out of me to those around me.
When it comes to stress in Christian ministry, Christmas is the time of year it hits the most. But there are two reasons why we shouldn’t brag about it. I shared the first one last week, here’s the second one.
In uncertainty, the only certain thing we can reach out for is the joy found in Jesus. Will you reach for him this Christmas?
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
When it comes to stress in Christian ministry, Christmas is the time of year it hits the most. But there are two reasons why we shouldn’t brag about it. I am sharing one this week, with another to follow in next week’s post.
Moment by moment, we can choose to trust in God, knowing that then, all will be well.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
As a leader, it’s just not realistic to be available 24/7 at any time, let alone at the busiest time of the year. Set expectations about when you will be available and when you will not.
The season leading up to Christmas – Advent – is an opportunity to immerse ourselves in hope. We can wait in certain hope knowing that God will always fulfil his promises to us.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Success through solitude rather than through busyness seems counterintuitive. But leaders need to think strategically and solitude gives us the time we need to carve out to do this.
Involving God in our work helps us find his intended rhythm for our work and for our rest. It is essential in finding a Christian work-life balance. So what does work-life balance from a Christian perspective look like?
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Do you find yourself wasting time on endless meetings? Here’s the best way I’ve found to stop meetings from stealing my time.
As we sacrifice ourselves to give and to serve others, our sacrifice – like those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in world wars and conflicts since – is a dim picture of the ultimate sacrifice given for us by Jesus Christ. It is good to remember what he has done for us too.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Procrastination is the Church Leader’s deadly foe. It distracts us from doing God’s will. Here’s the best way I have found to beat it.
It’s tough to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God’s grace, but it is essential if we want to be God’s Future Builders.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
A pastor’s schedule is not about getting things done. It’s about praying, writing, thinking and reflecting first and managing and leading second.
We can worship God any time and anywhere. We don’t have to wait until we get to church on a Sunday morning!
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Writing an email with military precision makes it highly effective and more likely to get the response you need quickly.
Following Jesus requires us to break free from the destructive patterns of our past and living out the purpose God has for our lives. Sometimes, we need to go back to move forward.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Jesus tells his followers they have two priorities to put first in life: Love God and Love Others. That’s it!
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
When we misplace something, it’s because it is not valuable to us. When we lose something, we will search until we find it, because it is so valuable to us. God loves and values each of us so much that he will seek and find us. All we must do is accept his love.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
In the northern hemisphere we are in the middle of the harvest season, an opportunity to thank God, the Giver of Life and the Giver of Joy for all he provides for us. As we do so, we explore the redemption of creation. Our climate is in “code red” crisis. Can it be saved? And as God’s people, what can we do to help?
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Sometimes we might wish Jesus hadn’t talked about money. But he did. So we must too. Jesus longs for us to find financial freedom as we build the future with him.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
Summary One of the greatest strengths of a healthy church is the loving relationships between its members. Each of us must reflect on how we
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
If leaders promise to reduce policy and process, then they must eliminate a good number of unnecessary forms and processes, otherwise the frontline will suffer a huge loss of morale.
The death of Queen Elizabeth II leaves many of us feeling disoriented, as if everything has changed in an instant. The Bible reminds us that we continue to have a constant in our lives. Jesus is the same, whatever circumstances we face.
It’s hard to stay on top of the many leadership and productivity articles published each week. To help you become the best leader possible, here are three articles I found helpful this week.
The Salvation Army does not practice Communion or baptism. It sees Christ in all aspects of life, especially in our mission to the world.
