Effective Digital Leadership Is All About Creating Value for People
I did something a little scary recently. I launched a new business. Or, at least, I launched a new project within my business. I’ve been coaching leaders for quite a few years now, but recently I created The Digital Leadership Lab as an online hub for group...
Overcoming Three Big Leadership Fears
I’m a leader. And it’s likely that you are too, whether you’re in an officially recognized leadership position or not. Leadership is influence, and it’s pretty much guaranteed you’re influencing people – employees, kids, a spouse, a...
What Real Rest Looks Like for a Pastor
Resting isn’t nearly as easy as it sounds. Our traditional definition of rest is simple enough: Do less. A more fleshed-out, biblical understanding of rest, however, is a bit deeper than merely doing less. It’s really doing less to allow time and space...
8 Ways to Stop Biggering and Start Bettering the Church
Remember the Once-ler? From The Lorax by Dr. Seuss? He was a fairly normal guy who wanted to build a big business at the expense of the environment, so he kept “biggering and biggering” until all the trees were gone, the wildlife had vacated the landscape,...
Actually, God Calls the Qualified… Into Leadership
Years ago, a sweet lady in our church handed me a little slip of paper to encourage me on my journey. I unfolded it and it read: God doesn’t call the qualified; he qualifies the called. I’m not sure who said it originally, but I’ve heard and repeated...
Spiritual Warfare and the Lives of Pastors and Church Leaders
The struggle is real. When you drop the phrase spiritual warfare into a casual conversations, you often get mixed reactions. On the one hand, a lot of people are skeptics when it comes to anything invisible or supernatural. In fact, many people will believe in heaven...
3 Components of a Healthy Church Planting Model
We’re so “ether-or” in our viewpoints, aren’t we? We have a tendency to form an opinion, stake a position, and defend it against anything that looks different. Tension can be good. Out of tension flows a creative discussion and differences of...
Boring Preaching Is A Crime! 7 Ways to Be Interesting
No, this is not a post about the loss of our religious freedom – it’s a reflection on a quote I’ve looked at many times since I first wrote it down about nine years ago at a conference on preaching… If you think the gathering of biblical facts...
5 Arenas of Pastoral Leadership
For about a decade and a half of my life as a pastor, I spent a lot of time focusing on being a better church leader. I read books and articles about vision, about church growth methodologies, and about leadership in hopes that I could perform my way into success the...Hi. I’m Brandon.
Hi, I’m Brandon. I’m married to Angie and we have three awesome kids. I’ve been a pastor, church planter, author, writer, blogger, an online marketing consultant, and a licensed real estate agent.
My passion is empowering families through local leaders to end extreme poverty with an amazing organization called Help One Now, and I’d love to share more with you about that!
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