2024-04-16 14:56
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2024-04-08 20:27
One of the ways that you can become a more effective leader is by being able to speak in public, and give a speech. Obviously, for those of us in Christian situations, we are thinking mainl… Read More
2024-03-28 13:52
All leaders will at time be in small groups, and have to communicate to small groups. If you are never in a small group, you are not a leader!
To communicate well in a small group, the… Read More
2024-03-18 15:14
If you cannot communicate with others, you could have the best vision and strategy for extending the kingdom of God but unless you can communicate it, you might as well not even have it… Read More
2024-02-26 11:03
God has designed us all to be unique. And I believe that God has given each of us a lane that when we stay in it, we seem almost super-human to others. A super-power. You have certain ski… Read More
2024-02-19 11:18
One of the worst things you can do as a leader ever is stop learning. To reach your potential as a leader you have to keep learning. One of the phrases I believe in so much is lifelong lea… Read More
2024-02-12 09:26
Listen, if you are going into your vision but no one is coming with you, you are not a leader, you are person on a walk. You have to develop some people skills! It’s amazing… Read More
2024-02-05 21:16
One of the most important keys to leadership, whether it is being a pastor, a manager, a dad, a mum, a living church leader, a head chef, or anyone who wants to influence others for good and… Read More
2024-01-29 09:40
One of the essential things to being an effective leader is to lead yourself first. You cannot have a leader who cannot lead themselves. You cannot pastor if you cannot pastor your… Read More
2024-01-23 20:09
Last week, I asked someone who was working for the church in the finance department to give money to two ministries and they refused. They said the money should be given later when othe… Read More
2024-01-06 21:01
We should all be mature, there’s something ugly about an immature leader, but some leaders get so mature they start believing their own press, they take themselves far too seriously, a… Read More
2023-12-04 21:53
I have taken up a number of very successful offerings in my life. I have raised 30000 Euros in one offering in one conference, I have raised 17000 pounds in one offering in our summer confe… Read More
2023-11-14 20:23
We have, in planting in 17 different locations around the UK, sometimes had to start services in locations that were not ideal, in situations that were not ideal, we haven’t had a wors… Read More
2023-11-05 20:39
John 5.44 in the ESV says: How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
When you receive glory from other people yo… Read More
2023-10-18 13:58
What glorifies God? If you asked 100 pastors the answer to that question, I bet you would get 100 answers, and very few of them would be from the Word of God. But the Bible is clear on thi… Read More
2023-09-12 13:53
Jesus tells us in Matthew 23.26 NLT: You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too.
You see part of being a Pharisee pasto… Read More
2023-09-04 20:10
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gives a very specific instruction when it comes to judging others. This is advice for everything, but it is especially important for pastors and leaders as… Read More
2023-08-28 18:19
Jesus doesn’t lie – He says SEEK YE FIRST the KINGDOM OF GOD (Matthew 6.33) and ALL THESE THINGS will be added to you! If we want to live a life of constant increase and additio… Read More
2023-08-22 14:49
One of the things that will mess up your life no matter what you are called to do is having the wrong priorities. I see this a lot. People prioritize things that are unimportant and import… Read More
2023-08-16 06:12
One of the things you notice as you read the gospels is that Jesus Christ was a friend of sinners. So much so that the other ministers called Him an alcoholic. They said all sorts of thing… Read More
2023-08-07 13:55
After Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, you would think all the other preachers would be so happy. Something has happened that verifies their God, their view, their faith, their lives. B… Read More
2023-07-26 14:53
In Luke 16.14 Luke tells us that the Pharisees loved money, and because they loved money they scoffed at Jesus talking! That’s staggering! Imagine listening to Jesus and scoffing. I… Read More
2023-07-07 13:54
At the core of being Pastor Pharisee is a lack of mercy. Mercy is one of the most essential qualities a pastor needs. Every other one of the fivefold ministries travels from place to plac… Read More
2023-06-16 18:25
Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him. (Luke 16.14)
One of the biggest problems when Pastors become pharisees, focussed… Read More
2023-06-13 15:07
Jesus used a very powerful illustration to show you what a religious Pharisee looks like. He said “you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of exto… Read More
2023-06-06 20:56
Jesus does not hold back in Matthew 23.14 telling the religious leaders of his day: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretens… Read More
2023-05-29 17:27
One of the biggest problems with the Pharisees is that they got in the way of other people growing with God. In Matthew 23.13, talking about the Pharisees Jesus says “woe to you&helli&hell…Read More
2023-05-22 17:21
Another thing Jesus says about Pharisee Pastors is that they “love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues” (Matthew 23.6). There are two different… Read More
2023-05-11 14:57
In Matthew 23, Jesus talks about what kind of leaders the Pharisees are. Last post we looked at verses 2-4, but today I want to look at verse 5:
But all their works they do for to… Read More
2023-05-02 21:56
In Matthew 23, Jesus talks about what kind of leaders the Pharisees are.
2 “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses.3… Read More
2023-04-27 15:12
One of the things that happens when we lose our connection and closeness with Jesus and we become Pharisee pastors is that we become very judgmental, and start accusing people. We should no… Read More
2023-04-18 18:49
Jesus told us that the Pharisees “strain at gnats but swallow camels” (Matthew 23.24). It means they got upset by tiny things and didn’t get upset at great big things. I… Read More
2023-04-11 18:23
One of the things that happens to me disturbingly regularly is the amount of people who offer to be my pastor. I’ve had people who ran a church into the ground and it closed do… Read More
2023-04-08 00:45
I have seen more than one pastor turn into a Pharisee. Normally, they have been pastoring for a while, and it has not gone so well visibly for them. And then the pastor transforms from bei… Read More
2023-03-28 20:28
I think that the church as a whole is suffering because it has become earth-bound. It’s great to teach about how to prosper and have abundance. It’s great to help people get pr… Read More
2023-03-17 11:02
Jesus said very clearly that whatever you want people to do to you, you should do also to them (Matthew 7.12). The Passion Translation reads: be careful to treat others in the same way you… Read More
2023-03-06 10:09
You need to be honest to have character, and you need to start off by being honest with yourself. The hardest people to pastor and lead are the people who are lying to themselves.
We h… Read More
2023-02-27 12:59
There has been a sort of understanding across the world that character is just for your personal life. It’s got nothing to do with ministry, business or politics. But that’s ab… Read More
2023-02-23 19:08
So many people think a win is measured in numbers and finances! Now we love more people coming to Tree of Life because we know we disciple them. We love having more money because we spend… Read More
2023-02-19 17:49
A lot of people are fed up of leaders for one reason – their lack of character. Politicians lie and break the very rules they make. Business CEOs are dishonest and deal without ethic… Read More
2023-02-03 15:14
Last week we looked at leadership lessons from Noah, today we skip forward to a remarkable leader, Abraham. He started the Jewish nation and religion, and was a man of remarkable faith in G… Read More
2023-01-24 10:29
The Bible is full of examples of great leaders. People who made a difference in the lives of others, who influenced people, who changed lives, communities, and nations. But when we start w… Read More
2023-01-16 12:12
Over the last few weeks, we have looked at a particular type of actor you may find in your church (or business or ministry, etc). We have looked at people who are pretending to be your frie… Read More
2023-01-11 12:51
In our last two posts, we shared the dangers of over-familiarity. Over-familiarity is when someone acts like they are your friend, that they are intimate with you, but they only know surfac… Read More
2023-01-10 00:24
As a pastor or other leader, you have to recognize that certain groups of people are more vulnerable to over-familiarity. and help those people. Some people have a much greater tendency to… Read More
2023-01-01 20:10
Some people will actually act like your friends when they are not your friends. They will pretend to you and to others that you and them are really close, even intimate, when they barely un… Read More
2022-12-30 11:25
One of the problems of actors in the church is this – you will make a promise or do a deal or make an appointment that you will eventually regret. Once I appointed a married couple to… Read More
2022-12-26 08:05
I ended our last post by quoting Romans 12.9, the verse that was the driving force behind all my teaching and preaching in 2022, our year of unfeigned love. It says “let love be witho… Read More
2022-12-19 15:03
One of the things that normally shocks a new pastor, generally after about 6-9 months of pastoring is that there are – thankfully rarely, but it definitely happens – people who c… Read More
2022-12-12 00:20
How can you stop someone stabbing you in the back one day? How can you stop someone lying about you, slandering you, causing strife and evil in your church, prophesying-lying? How do you s… Read More
2022-12-07 15:55
No one just grabs a knife and stabs you in the back. There are five clear steps that are always there before you are stabbed in the back by someone. This blog post will outline those steps… Read More
2022-11-28 13:05
When Judas betrayed Jesus to the Romans, that wasn’t a one off event that just came out of nowhere. It was the end result of a process that in my experience is exceptionally predictab… Read More
2022-11-20 18:36
If I asked you what is the most important quality necessary to be a leader, I may get several answers. I would imagine you are not at a level where you would think it was some sort of… Read More
2022-11-17 17:33
I am going to end this series today, with what is a key to raising up other leaders. It is a very important truth, easily stated and understood, but can be hard to work out in practise &nda&hell…Read More
2022-11-07 20:10
If someone on your team, in your church is not doing what they should be, whether that is gossiping, lying, treating people badly, you need to confront. I spoke about that last week. Today… Read More
2022-11-01 17:50
It’s hard work to reward people for good behaviour. Well done for starting another two churches, here is a payrise. Well done for ushering so well, here is a card. Well done for for… Read More
2022-10-25 18:13
You need to encourage the leaders you are leading to raise the bar as high as possible. Let’s say you put 100% effort into running the ministry, and you delegate it to someone else… Read More
2022-10-17 14:08
When you learn something new or encounter a new idea, it generally starts on a visual level. You see it. We use seeing language a lot with new ideas – “oh I see it”, &ldq&hell…Read More
2022-10-14 02:50
We grow better with company. You should find someone about the same level as you, same sort of age, income, influence and ask them to be your leadership brother.
Then, on purpose, you s… Read More
2022-10-09 21:51
The better a leader you are the better a leader you can make people. If you want to lead leaders – what are you reading? How are you reading the Bible? What is your plan for prayer?… Read More
2022-09-19 09:44
Find out what they want. Everybody wants something. Now somethings will disqualify someone from leadership, people who want a lifestyle that doesn’t honour Christ, someone who wants to… Read More
2022-09-13 16:32
Unless you are a leader of leaders you are not great. You are not the best. You might be smart, might be capable, might be charismatic, might be charming. However, if you are not leading… Read More
2022-09-05 13:49
I meet my pastor’s every week, on Zoom as we live so far away from each other. I have a loose structure for these meetings.
THE POSITIVE. Always start with the positive, either I… Read More
2022-09-03 16:08
How often should you check up on people who you have given leadership positions or roles too? It depends! On…
How important is the task. If your church is going to fail if the… Read More
2022-08-23 21:42
Doctrine is vital to a healthy Christian life, it is similar to the skeleton of a human body, providing shape and strength to your faith. There are several doctrines which are more imp… Read More
2022-08-13 20:59
If you give someone a position of leadership, they have what is called delegated leadership. They should have some latitude and you should definitely give them space to be themselves and be… Read More
2022-08-09 21:09
People cannot get better at doing things without doing them. You cannot learn to drive a car by reading a book. People forget a lot of what you tell them but when they are doing things the… Read More
2022-07-26 15:00
You cannot make someone a better leader if you do not relate to people. You need to see people outside of a workplace setting, you need to let people be in a place where their guard is down… Read More
2022-07-19 18:07
You are a leader, therefore you have a dream. You have a great big dream driving you forward. Now is not the time of your life to keep that secret, and the people you are raising up in lea… Read More
2022-07-12 17:46
Is this person compatible with you? I mean it, someone might have great character and great capability, but if they are incompatible with you then you will not be able to help them develop… Read More
2022-07-06 18:36
It’s so important we ask our upcoming leaders good questions and make them think.
Also if you don’t know the people you are raising up, how can you know how to help them best?… Read More
2022-06-25 12:01
Sometimes when I preach, teach, mentor or help someone, I have to let them see me and how I faced a similar problem. It reminds me of the old Western movies, where both cowboys are hiding b… Read More
2022-06-16 11:02
The Pareto Principle is often referred to as the 80/20 rule. which has a lot of applications. In terms of leadership development, 20% of the people in your church/ business/ organization ar… Read More
2022-06-07 17:08
Before Jesus Christ was born, the greatest leader who ever lived was Moses. He was the leader of two-three million people, and those people were faithless, whining, moaning, complaining, co… Read More
2022-05-30 16:20
The people who have influenced you most in your life are the people who believe in you! It really is that simple and straightforward. That faith in others creates a supernatural space for… Read More
2022-05-23 10:19
I am surrounded by a team of wonderful people. I am surrounded by some great leaders. It has taken a lot of time to invest in these people, a lot of faith to believe in them, and a lot of… Read More
2022-05-20 17:59
I don’t really like confrontation, and that’s not a bad thing. In fact, Paul told Timothy not to appoint a “striker” as an elder (1 Tim 3.3), and a striker is someon… Read More
2022-05-09 14:16
I remember fondly the TV series Heroes, where Peter Petrelli was told that if he saved the cheerleader, he would save the world. What a joy to have such a simple way to save the whole world… Read More
2022-05-07 10:09
If you read Psalm 23 which is a revelation of Jesus as our pastor and the benefits of being in a local church, one of the wonderful blessings is a cup that runs over. You could translate th… Read More
2022-05-05 16:33
I am going to give you a very simple mental exercise I do when I decide if someone is a potential leader. Right, I want you to imagine it is Sunday morning and church starts in ten minutes… Read More
2022-05-04 21:33
Every leader should be fruitful. One of the hallmarks of fruitfulness is to reproduce what you are. Christians should reproduce more Christians. Leaders should produce more leaders, apost… Read More
2022-04-27 15:07
When times are uncertain, you have to keep the dream big, like I said in the last post. But at the same time how you get from here to there may change. Our dream is our destination, and if… Read More
2022-04-19 06:48
I used to run a McDonald’s restaurant. No one ever once came in and asked for a fillet steak with peppercorn sauce. If someone did we would all think they were weird. We all know wh… Read More
2022-03-31 06:27
In my last post on handling uncertain times as a leader, I said to make sure the dream stayed certain. That meant in your mind as the leader. You have to know what is non negotiable. Tact… Read More
2022-03-21 13:48
One of my dreams is to plant one hundred churches in the UK. In the next two months, we are planting another two churches meaning we will have ten churches in the UK.
We are en route t… Read More
2022-03-18 12:25
If you sat me down and asked me what is in your future, I would tell you that I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet, and I don’t know.
If you pushed me, I am an insightful pers… Read More
2022-03-17 18:27
I recently read a survey of CEOs of growing businesses, and I found out that when asked what is the most important skill to grow a business that 84% of them said it was dealing with uncertai… Read More
2022-03-09 11:44
The late Bob Proctor used to say that if you are not creating you are disintegrating. In other words, if you are not going forward you are going backward. The Bible says it like this: the… Read More
2022-03-03 09:28
When I start dreaming, and share my dreams with people, I am often told I am dreaming too big, that my dreams are unrealistic. But what I do is see myself with what I already want and act a… Read More
2022-02-07 21:46
Andrew Carnegie said “any idea held in the mind and emphasized, whether feared or revered will at once begin to clothe itself”. In other words what you think is what will manife… Read More
2022-02-02 20:32
I define willpower as the ability to still imagine the promises of God no matter what your circumstances or senses or feelings say.
Every leader, especially leaders in the body of Chris… Read More
2022-01-27 15:52
Jesus is the biggest thinker in the world. The plan of salvation is bigger than any single human could ever think. We need to tune into Jesus. When I was young, we never had mobile phones… Read More
2022-01-05 20:34
Most people do not think for themselves. I spend my life helping people think big, and what I find is that most small thoughts come from someone else. Most people get their thinking from t… Read More
2021-12-08 16:16
I am the founder of a first generational church planting movement called the Tree of Life Family. We have in the last ten years planted eight churches and are about to plant another two. B… Read More
2021-12-01 14:31
You cannot plant a church, build a church, build a leadership team, raise up leaders or help people dream big unless you accept the fact that you will have conflict if you do so.
A lot of… Read More
2021-11-19 02:34
I was reading Mark 4 today, it’s a passage I go back to over and over. The sower sows the Word. And today, I saw something that I had never seen before. Something that I realize… Read More
2021-11-09 21:49
One of the things I see so many leaders to is try and hold onto all the money and hold it as tight as they can. When they have nothing they can cope, but when money comes in, they start to… Read More
2021-11-02 11:01
Is being busy the new religion of the modern age I wonder. We are moving so fast now – faster than ever before. There is so much to do! But what should our priorities be as Christia… Read More
2021-10-19 21:20
Isn’t it interesting that the Bible says that the fear of God is the start of wisdom but the fear of man is a trap (Proverbs 29.25). You cannot do both. You could equally say the fea… Read More
2021-09-27 15:19
After David killed Goliath, the ladies in Israel wrote a song for him, including the line “David killed his tens of thousands” (1 Sam. 18.7). That line is a blatant and tota… Read More
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