Have you resisted complacency in your church? How can you avoid it?

How can a leader overcome the challenges that come with age in a culture that is constantly seeking the newest idea, approach or technique?

When a church plateaus, it is time for renewal. What type of renewal does your church need?

Are you living in the past, or are you growing along with the members of your congregation?

If you have difficulty focusing on the task at hand, here are some suggestions that might help you.

Isn't your influence and impact as a leader too important to allow poor mental habits or sinful thinking to ruin your ministry?

Everybody experiences defeats in life. What do you do when disappointments come your way?

Which of these easy-to-execute ideas will help you most in achieving God's mission for you?

Is there a sense of hopelessness in your own leadership ability or an attitude of hopefulness and possibilities? Here are some characteristics of breakout pastors.

Every ministry goes through dry spells now and then when things get stagnant. Here are 4 suggestions to help get it back on track.

How would you evaluate your ministry with these 10? Are there 1 or 2 that you want to focus on?

Discover how this elusive factor will enable you to live in a way in which your passion, your body, your mind, your love, your religion, your information, your work and your play are all 1.

Here's how wishful thinking can set up a congregation for big disappointment.

In the 2nd installment of a 3-part series, LifeWay Research President Ed Stetzer explains what it takes to reflect God's mission in your life.

Does your ministry have a singular, obsessive focus? Does that one thing match the one thing Jesus gave his disciples?

What questions do you ask yourself to monitor your progress in the ministry? Are there any that you would add to this list?

In the first of a 3-part series, LifeWay Research President Ed Stetzer exposes the enemy's plan to focus missions on the wrong thing. Don't be ignorant of the devil's devices.

Are you and your staff simply focused on putting more bodies in the pews or on making disciples? Here are some things that can help with the latter.

Where do we find God's will? There are several popular teachings that may sound good but actually could lead you down the wrong path.

Nehemiah was a man of action. Here are some of the things that made his ministry—and possibly can make yours—successful.