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The Power of Cultural Vocabulary
Language Creates Culture: The Power of a Shared Vocabulary Every church - every culture - speaks a distinct language, whether they realize it or not. If a leadership team predominantly leans into the language of metrics, performance, and programming, they inadvertently build a culture of striving...
When We Stop Seeing People
If you’ve been in ministry long enough, chances are you’ve had seasons when people became more exhausting than inspiring. Where the endless opinions, conflicts, and problems begin to blur your vision. Where you start reacting to issues instead of remembering the...
Where Does Hope Come From: Finding God’s Presence and Promise in Suffering
As a pastor or ministry leader, you surely have experienced times where the constant demands and difficult decisions begin to weigh you down. Or when you have the God-filled opportunity to walk alongside suffering people, yet begin to feel crushed by the pain being...
Reclaiming Wonder: An Invitation to Natural Spirituality
Let me tell you about a tree. Years ago, our staff was on a spiritual retreat in the Colorado mountains. Our guide, Matt Sertall, a Presbyterian author and pastor, invited us to walk into the forest with a strange challenge: “Go find a place that feels right. Say...