Great leadership requires great delegation. You can’t reach your potential (and your church can’t reach its potential) if you try to do everything yourself.

Pastor Tip: Get some good physical activity most days, even if just walking. It helps you deal with stress and sleep and feel better. A good routine can benefit!

If more Christians prioritized the local church over online debates and controversies, this would be a merrier world.

Mentoring dinner tonight with Mr. Hunter in San Juan #disicpleship #mentoring #wayofjesus #theway

If we keep longing for some fantasy of what the church should be like, we’ll fail to step into the reality of what it actually is—a collection of messy, weak people bound together by the grace of Jesus, of which we’re a part.

Haven’t had my gutters cleaned in awhile and now there’s a cactus growing out of the side gutter on my house

If we resign ourselves to only doing what we can do, we won’t see Jesus do what only He can do. Faith requires moving from resignation to risk.

6 Common Struggles of Pastors | buff.ly/3P7bOQK

Next event here at The Ranch is in November for The Fullerton Quaker Church and their leadership team.

There’s something deeply glorious and profoundly healing when we can freely be ourselves and laugh and cry in the presence of others who truly get us and receive us. We all long for that. And whenever it happens, I think we’re getting a glimpse of heaven.

Imagine if people got as excited about the ordinary means of grace and the fellowship of the saints at their local church as they did about a mega-conference.