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Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
Identity! Capturing Freedom to Lead and to Live
By: Jock Ficken
Every church leader I know risks fastening their identity to the wrong thing. Identity might be the most fundamental of leadership building blocks. The Flourishing in Ministry study funded by … Continue reading
Flourishing in Ministry…It’s all about Relationships!
By: Jock Ficken
Is your ministry life-enriching or life-depleting? Congregational leadership can flourish…be life-enriching and not life-depleting…when four types of relationships are well according to Bloom’s Flourishing in Ministry project. While this was … Continue reading
Are you Flourishing?
By: Jock Ficken
[bctt tweet=”“Flourishing happens when ministry is a life-enriching rather than life-depleting experience.”” username=”pliexperience”] From my perspective the stakes are high! In the next few weeks of summer… New pastors will … Continue reading
Advancing the Dream…4 Things to Remember
By: Jock Ficken
Dreaming new dreams in the ministry of a congregation is the first thing to disappear when a congregation starts to decline and the first thing to reappear when it leans toward a new future … Continue reading
An Inspiring Leader
By: Jock Ficken
This week we have learning communities in Panama City, Florida; Denver, Colorado; and in a country in Eurasia. Join us in praying a blessing upon each of the participants. Bob … Continue reading
Unexpectedly Difficult
By: Jock Ficken
I’m not exactly sure when I first put the pieces together that leading is difficult…even when we think it’s going to be difficult. Big things are difficult: Turnaround churches Planting … Continue reading
Time, Vision & Grace: Three Things You Need to Get Out of the Pit
By: PLI Team
Isolation is a familiar word to those in the pit. Whether inflicted or perceived, isolation is crippling to God’s invitation to build something deeper and stronger out of the pit … Continue reading
You’re in The Pit: Three things to do while you’re there.
By: PLI Team
So, you’re in the pit. That spot in life and leadership where things unraveled or took a turn you didn’t expect. You ask, “How’d I get here?” Your spirits are … Continue reading
In Community
By: Jock Ficken
As leaders we are supposed to have the answers. Right? But the world is ever changing and this leaves us feeling off balance. Uncertain. It takes courage and skill to … Continue reading
Leaders Go First
By: Jock Ficken
As leaders we are supposed to have the answers. Right? But the world is ever changing and this leaves us feeling off balance. Uncertain. It takes courage and skill to … Continue reading