Below is a base level version of the follow-up procedures that we successfully used as pastors to make sure that our people, including...

The GIF is pretty funny to watch, but not to experience. Learn how to identify the signs of burnout. Here are a few of them: Easily...

Many “creatives” feel "pushed-out" or even rejected from pastoral or business leadership. The rigors of the needed structure can either...

Hey pastors and leaders… want to measure how good your culture is and will be in a few months? 1. Listen to how well your people disagree...

I was at the park with my daughter. The playground was packed! A little boy screamed out, “who wants to play cops and robbers?” Only his...

My wife and daughter were mid-conversation with me while at the dinner table, but I was only half listening. The upper part of my legs...

That's a quote spoken by Ioannis during a podcast that he was on. Leadership is about serving people. Jesus made that clear, especially...

Coaches are not therapists for businesses or ministries. Coaches are not advice hotlines. Coaches do not exist to give you quick tips...

“I wish you would have called me 6 months ago…” That was the response that I got from a FORMER pastor, who was incorrectly still on a list of pastors currently pastoring in our area. If I remember correctly, I had just told him about what we do in Grats Transformational Ministry Coaching and he had just finished telling me about how difficult of a time he had had in ministry; and that he and his family had finally just had enough. They stepped out of ministry and he wasn’t

People join your team because of hope and promises... ...their hope that your promises of things like: great pay wonderful benefits...

Are you abiding in Jesus? (If you haven't first read this blog post concerning prayer , I suggest that you do so.) When I was a kid,...

Everything good in life and ministry comes from Jesus, and therefore often begins with/is born out of prayer and bible reading.   The...

Article 2 in the discussion from the book of Malachi. My last post (click here to read it) presented the judgement from God in the book...

From the Book of Malachi. I was listening to/reading in Malachi chapters 1, 2, and 3 today, and was struck how appropriate these words...

If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My...

(Though this post was written with pastoral leaders in mind, it absolutely applies to those leading in business or anywhere else!) It...

( A story of encouragement, which includes some of the Grats genesis story. ) “We’re not in ministry anymore.” Those were the words that...

Where to start and when to seek help! I am going to say something here about diagnosing problems in your ministry that would make many of...

Just about every minister will tell you that ministry is indeed a fight. The New Testament repeatedly tells us as much - including where...

What it is and what it isn't. Hebrews 11:6 (NASB) "And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe...