Hope for Leaders Who Have Made Dumb Decisions

By Richard Bargas –

It’s not hard for me to think about multiple examples of personal failure over my 51 years of life. I can recall so many bad decisions–dumb ones, sinful ones, immature ones, naive ones, rash ones, prideful ones. Like I said, I remember too many. The problem is, leaders have to make multiple decisions all day, every day. The more decisions we need to make, the greater potential there is to make another bonehead decision. So what do we do? Well, you could:

Give up being a leader. And if you really are poor at decision making because you constantly make the kinds of bad choices I named…

Revelation 6—The Rest of It

By TylerR –

This is a series of short expositions of Revelation 4-22 from a futurist perspective. Follow along with a timeline here.

We continue our discussion of Revelation 6 from last time with the third horseman, who corresponds to the third “seal” on the scroll Jesus opens throughout most of this book (Rev 6-16).

The third horseman (…

The Pursuit of Excellence: It’s for Ministry, Not Just for Business

By Aaron Blumer –

“Excellence” might not be the business leadership buzzword it once was, but it’s far from dead. A quick search at Amazon shows plenty of business titles with “excellence” in them. Even if the term isn’t the word of the day anymore, the concept has never waned.

This is because the business world understands that making what they do, and how they do it, better is essential for their survival in a competitive marketplace. Maybe that marketplace mentality is partly why ministry leaders sometimes view excellence as a “a business thing.”

But they shouldn’t.

A Christian…