Formation · Leadership & Equipping
Guides and practices for pastors, elders, facilitators, teams, and others learning to lead faithfully.
Understanding the Times Righteous Risks for Church Leadership in a New Season February 2026 “From Issachar—they who understood the times, to know what Israel ought to do…”— 1 Chronicles 12:32 The church…
Righteous Risk
Open resource →Growth We Do Not Control Leading when we do not know how growth happens Focus on Relationships Introduction As we hear this passage, let us listen for what is already happening— not…
Board Devotions
Open resource →Holding Limits, Call, and Compassion Together Mark 6 reminds us that faithful leadership begins with telling the truth, making space to rest, allowing compassion to surface, and only then asking what we…
Open resource →Living Faithfully in the Mess (Longer Conversation) Order, Risk, and the Call to Follow Christ Our Instincts When uncertainty or discomfort arises in the church, what do I reach for first? structure?…
Open resource →When Anxiety Disrupts Faithful Work Natural Responses In the parable often referred to as the Prodigal Son, the older son responds to his brother’s return by standing outside the celebration, resisting the…
Open resource →A practice of intentional ordering for the Season of Noticing Purpose of the Practice Forming a Faithful Agenda helps a leadership body align its meetings with the kind of work God is…
Seasons of Shalom
Open resource →A relational practice for the Season of Noticing. Purpose of the Practice Permission for Uncertainty helps a community remain present to ambiguity, tension, and unresolved questions without rushing toward clarity, certainty, or control.…
Seasons of Shalom
Open resource →A practice of communal discernment for the Season of Noticing Purpose of the Practice Naming What Is Present helps a community tell the truth about its current reality without rushing to interpret, evaluate,…
Seasons of Shalom
Open resource →A practice of communal attentiveness for the Season of Noticing Purpose of the Practice Prayerful Listening and Shared Silence trains a community to notice what is present—in Scripture, in themselves, in one another,…
Seasons of Shalom
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