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.
Peter: Raw Material for 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.
Peter: Learning from Life Experience
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains the place of life experience in leadership.
Peter: The Submissive Leader
What characterizes biblical leadership? This article considers Christ’s training of Peter in order to show that submission is something that should characterize leadership.
Peter: The Compassionate and Courageous Leader
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, this article explains two characteristics of leadership: compassion and courage.
Peter: The Servant Leader
What characterizes biblical leadership? Looking at Christ’s training of Peter, the article explains three characteristics of leadership: restraint, humility, and servanthood.
Words of Advice for Young Church Leaders
How can young church leaders grow in their roles? Here are twenty words of advice to young church leaders for giving good leadership.
Ten Ways to Recognize Our Arrogance
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.
Ten Reflections on Leadership
What are important things to learn in leadership? This article reflects on years of experience as a leader in the church.
The Office and Leadership
Leadership Core: Talents
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.
Rooted Leadership: Values
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.
Rooted Leadership: Relationships
This article discusses leadership, showing that relationships greately influence the character of a leader.
Rooted Leadership: Identity
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.
Christian Leadership Part 7: The Honest Steward A Man with a Calculator
Christian Leadership Part 2: Introduction to Leadership
Equip, Don't Enable
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.
But I Like to Sing Bass... – Why We Shouldn't Always Sing in 4-Part Harmony
This article reflects on the way musicians and organists in particular can provide leadership in the singing of a congregation.
Ten Ways to Thrive in the Face of Pastoral Challenges
This article outlines ten practical and scriptural guidelines for functioning well in leadership positions in the church.
A Modest Ambition Women Lead more than they know. Make the Example Godly.
Knowing and Loving Your Leadership
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 Challenge of Spiritual Leadership
A Glorious Expedition
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.
The Conviction to Lead – Leading Is Believing: The Leader Is Driven by Beliefs That Lead to Action
This chapter is about leadership in the church of Christ. The focus is on the importance of leaders having proper convictions and beliefs.
The Conviction to Lead – True Leadership Starts with a Purpose, Not a Plan
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.
Thinking Wrongly About Leadership
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.
Nine Types of Leaders in Scripture
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.
Is Luke an Exponent of "Early Protestantism"? Church Order in the Lukan Writings
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.
Paul's Leadership Essentials
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.
Three Pitfalls for Young Evangelical Leaders
This article warns against certain pitfalls that face especially young Christian leaders in their leadership roles.
Does Your Leadership Reveal the Character of God?
Christian leadership is related to who God is. Here are eight questions to consider for how leadership should reveal the character of God.
Cream from Al Mohler’s Book on Leadership
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.
Twenty Leadership Tips in Tweet Length
Are you a leader? What does leadership look like? Here are twenty tips for answering this question.
Seven Pitfalls of Leadership Which Can Derail a Leader
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.
The Most Difficult Time to Lead
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.
1 Timothy 3:4-5 – The Character of the Christian: Family Leaders
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.
“You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbour's Wife”: A Study in Deuteronomic Domestic Ideology
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.
1 & 2 Timothy and Titus – Greetings to All (1 Timothy 1:1-2)
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.
Accept Your Leadership
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.
Looking for Leaders
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.
A Testimony of Faithfulness
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.
Servant Leadership Whosoever wants to be great among you must be your servant
The Teenage Years: Goofiness or Godliness
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.
Student Leadership in Reformed Schools
To Rule Is Sacrifice
For a Christian, taking leadership in politics means personal sacrifice.
The Kingdom Theology of the Psalter
The Role of Women in the Church – Conclusions
Can Every Member Be a Leader?
Leadership, Holy Men and Lessons from Augustine
This article is about self-love in leadership, sexual sins in leadership, narcissism, and leadership problems.
Pastors, Pragmatism, Pleasure, and Pride
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.
The Role of the Bible in Formation and Transformation
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.