Peter: What’s in a Name?
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains the battle between the temptation of sin and the call to spirituality in leadership.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains the battle between the temptation of sin and the call to spirituality in leadership.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains three raw materials of leadership: being inquisitive, having initiative, and being involved.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains the place of life experience in leadership.
What characterizes biblical leadership? This article considers Christ’s training of Peter in order to show that submission is something that should characterize leadership.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, this article explains two characteristics of leadership: compassion and courage.
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains three characteristics of leadership: restraint, humility, and servanthood.
How can young church leaders grow in their roles? Here are twenty words of advice to young church leaders for giving good leadership.
Pride and arrogance are the leading factors in causing the fall of many in leadership positions. This article identifies ten ways of recognizing your arrogance.
What are important things to learn in leadership? This article reflects on years of experience as a leader in the church.
This article discusses the topic of talent, which is part of the core strength of leadership. The article discusses how to make the most of one's talent.
This article considers the matter of leadership, showing the importance of a leader who lives and leads out of his values. The article discusses what values are, and explains why some leaders live lives out of sync with their values.
This article discusses leadership, showing that relationships greately influence the character of a leader.
This article explores the topic of leadership by explaining that every leader leads out of an identity, whether it is a false or authentic identity.
Why is proper leadership important for the church? From Ephesians 4:11-13 this article explains that church leaders are Christ's gift to the church, and are responsible to equip believers. Where good leadership is given, Christ is glorified.
This article reflects on the way musicians and organists in particular can provide leadership in the singing of a congregation.
This article outlines ten practical and scriptural guidelines for functioning well in leadership positions in the church.
This article encourages pastors to love know and love those who serve in leadership positions with them in the church. It illustrates the point with Colossians 4:7-14, where Paul provides an excellent example of this issue.
The Bible expects the husband to lead his wife. How does a husband provide leadership? There are seven things he can do to provide leadership in the home.
This chapter is about leadership in the church of Christ. The focus is on the importance of leaders having proper convictions and beliefs.
This chapter is about leadership in the church of Christ. The author’s emphasis is that wherever Christian leaders serve, their leadership should be driven by distinctively Christian convictions. Many leaders are good at change and organizational transformation, but they lack a centre of gravity in truth.
This article identifies three ways of thinking wrongly about leadership in the church: not reading 1 Timothy 3 correctly, unhealthy thinking about eldership, and seeing deacons as junior varsity elders.
Biblical leadership is leading in dependence on God's grace. This article looks at nine types of leaders in the Bible to show how this is important for leadership.
How is the church portrayed in the book of Acts? Giles responds to the idea that Acts represents a form of early catholicism. He argues that in such things as baptism, communal meals, and forms of leadership, the theology of Luke is simple and non-sacramental.
This article outlines what leadership in ministry should look like, according to 2 Timothy 4. Paul utters the simple charge to preach the Word, from which come six implications of leadership and the preaching of the Word.
This article warns against certain pitfalls that face especially young Christian leaders in their leadership roles.
What does it mean to be a spiritual leader? This article indicates that spiritual leadership is rooted in knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to use God’s means to get them there. This understanding of leadership has two aspects to it: the inner circle and the outer circle.
Christian leadership is related to who God is. Here are eight questions to consider for how leadership should reveal the character of God.
What does Christian leadership entail? This article explains several principles, including how leadership calls for conviction, embraces the biblical worldview, is full of passion, thinking, and teaching.
Are you a leader? What does leadership look like? Here are twenty tips for answering this question.
How can you improve your leadership capabilities? You need to avoid these seven pitfalls of leadership that can derail you, including pride, passiveness, isolation, loneliness, and boredom.
Leadership can be difficult as a husband and a father when by your long-term actions or inaction has forfeited the respect of those meant to follow your lead. Yet this article explains that you do not lead because you are worthy, but because you are called.
The qualifications for being an elder should not be limited to them. They should be characteristics of all Christians. This article explains how in 1 Timothy 3:4-5 God calls Christian men to exercise leadership in their homes.
The Old Testament views leadership in general as a privilege granted to an individual in order to serve the interests of those who are led. This view of leadership is reflected in particular in Deuteronomy's version of the Decalogue. This article offers a comparison of Deuteronomy 5's versions of the Decalogue with Exodus 20.
Chapter 1 is a general introduction to the purpose of 1 Timothy, and a commentary on 1 Timothy 1:1-2. Paul carefully phrased his greeting to Timothy with the purpose of encouraging him in his daunting leadership role.
Husbands are called to lead both their wife and children. Why is it that leadership seems to be so difficult for men? This article gives reasons why men do not lead and explains how men should lead.
This article helps us to consider how to go about nominating office-bearers in the church. It discusses what office-bearers—elders and deacons—are called to do, and what qualifications for leadership they are required to have. In relation to this, consideration is given to 1 Timothy 3.
This article looks at the life of Timothy, a church leader who was also a helper in Paul's ministry. The author discusses leadership and discipleship by looking at Timothy's example. Looking specifically at Hebrews 13, the author discusses how we can be biblical leaders and followers.
In the last seventy years, another age group description was added besides 'children' and 'adults'; namely, the description of 'teenagers'. What comes to mind when you hear this word? This article looks at the expectations for this age group from the world and from God. The author concludes that biblically, the teen years should be training ground for godliness, responsibility and leadership.
For a Christian, taking leadership in politics means personal sacrifice.
This article is about self-love in leadership, sexual sins in leadership, narcissism, and leadership problems.
Those that fill leadership positions in the church need to ring the bell of warning when there is danger ahead. This article is about imminent dangers that pastors must be on the lookout for.
This article is concerned with the part that the Bible plays in the formation of Christians, especially those called to leadership ministry. How can we read the Bible and have it form us, without bringing our own pre-formed agendas to the text? The many challenges in reading the Bible on its own terms is noted, not least laying aside modern categories for enquiry.