Following in the pattern established when the risen Jesus restored Simon Peter beside the Sea of Galilee, Christian ministers are called...

Can a leader hold (or express) personal convictions counter to the position of the body he or she leads and still be trusted to lead?...

Names have meaning. Perhaps we don't think about that fact as much as people in other cultures and times. Amongst the ancient Israelites...

This post is cloned from the Living Leadership blog for which I wrote it - I'm hoping that by posting here it might reach more people who...

In the Living Leadership Formation Residential conference this week (for junior leaders - ministry trainees, apprentices, interns etc.),...

Have you ever been falsely accused? I suppose if you’re old enough to read this post, you almost certainly have been. Maybe only in small...

‘The end justifies the means’. It’s a famous saying that seems to have originated with Niccolò Machiavelli, the political thinker who was...

Sometimes (not always) a week has a theme. This week did for me. Not as some weeks do because one spends them doing mostly one thing,...

In yesterday’s post we considered Paul’s challenge in Philippians 2 to live in humility and inter-dependence with one another, following...

In yesterday’s post I drew out a first principle for dealing with our ambition: seek God’s glory, not your own. Abraham was our example...

In yesterday’s post we saw that Jesus abandoned self-preservation and the pursuit of power in His descent to the cross. We heard His...

“One day I’m going to do something that will change the whole system, and everyone will know my name and remember”. Those are the words...