We’re all leaders in some capacity. Whether it be parenthood, workplace related, or  amongst friends, leadership is essentially influence. Each of us has influence in some way, whether it be big or small. I have been given a pretty large leadership responsibility at my job, and this year I’ve been extremely focused on intentionality. I’m [...]

Part One: Entitlement and Trust Part Two: Servanthood Part Three: Promotion Part Four (Today): Reward This will be the last post in this short series on the type of leader we need today. A lot of conferences and books focus on the type of leader people want to see today, but what we need is [...]

Part One: Entitlement and Trust Part Two: Servanthood Part Three: Promotion I spend a lot of my energy promoting my favorite teams. The Twins, the Vikings, the TWolves (not much to promote there these days), the Huskers, the Blue Devils. I’m real good at throwing in a little trash talk to a conversation. In many [...]

Part One: Entitlement and Trust Part Two (Today): Servanthood We see how servant leaders lead by sacrificing their desires, by giving up the entitlement they often deserve, and by establishing trust with those they are serving. But, the first step needed in this process is becoming a servant leader. This is an especially poignant question [...]

Over the past year I’ve taken several classes in seminary on Biblical leadership and church management. Those classes have included several papers on the subject of the kind of leader that is needed today. I thought I’d condense those papers into a short series I’ve titled “The Leader Needed Today.” There are thousands of books [...]