You have been freed from…and you have been freed for. The Christian leader must understand the biblical nature of freedom. If we don’t,...

Why is discipleship training so mysterious? I recently spent some time with fellow Lutheran pastors, and I asked, “How are you training...

A Personal Story I can remember many years ago when I started my professional work with Christ Greenfield. I was hired as a part-time...

The core idea of the Lean Startup Methodology is to avoid wasting valuable time and resources when developing a new service or product....

My son Jonah was born in July 2017. My wife and I had just purchased our first home in East Mesa, Arizona. As new parents, we were...

When I was a teenager, my parents would send me to Norway every summer. My father is Norwegian, and that's where I was born. Deep in the...

Over the years of being a pastor, reading the Bible, and studying the discipleship strategy of Jesus, I’ve always thought we made...

Everyone’s journey into ministry is different, but my own route into pastoral ministry was…well…unique. In our church body, the typical...

If you serve in ministry, it’s likely that at some point you’ve worked as part of a team. Over the years, I’ve worked on several teams...

Pastors are generally passively imbalanced. Many of us didn’t get into ministry as a means to exercise our dynamic behavioral traits....

If you have ever carried the burden of leadership, then you probably know what it's like to feel frustrated and overwhelmed, to be...

Did Paul train leaders like we do?

For many decades, the United States has benefited from having the strongest military in the world. This is something for which we can be...

My Grandpa Arnold Ahlman has been with Jesus for 22 years. His friends called him “Arnie.” I don’t remember him preaching much. I do...

Church leaders have a stressful calling. Duh. Emergency calls at all hours of the day. Funerals. Public speaking. Sunday comes around...

We Need More Workers! And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of...

It breaks my heart to hear the Barna statistic that 38% of pastors have considered leaving the ministry in the past year. It breaks my...

2 Timothy 2:1-2 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, 2and what you have heard from Me in the...

Start with Why. If you don’t know your Why very few will follow you to What. (Thank you, Simon Sinek.) Your Why should be compelling,...

Why the Church Need to Deploy Local Leaders (Part 2 of 3)