In 2021, I was privileged to grab lunch with and take a short interview with Clyde Meador. I had known Clyde from his work at the IMB, but even more as a member of the church I was serving at. He was well-loved and respected as a leader at the IMB for decades of faithful ministry. Clyde died in 2024, and is missed by everyone who shared ministry and friendship [&hellip

Rumelt, Richard P. Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters. London: Profile Books, 2017. In discussions of strategic leadership, particularly in the world of business, there are few names as well-respected as Richard Rumelt and few texts as widely praised as Good Strategy, Bad Strategy. Currently a long-standing professor at UCLA, Rumelt has experience not only as a teacher of management strategy at Harvard and INSEAD in [&hellip

Scazzero, Peter. The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2015. “We lead more out of who we are than out of what we do,” writes Peter Scazzero, author of The Emotionally Healthy Leader (48). Scazzero is the founding pastor and now a pastor at large of New Life Fellowship Church in New York City (22-23). [&hellip

Eswine, Zachary W. The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015. Many pastors dream of the big things God will do through them when they are going into the ministry. They envision large churches, popular books, cities redeemed, accolades from peers, or movements spurred on by their leadership, drive, ideas, and preaching (18). Zack Eswine has a Ph.D. from Regent [&hellip

The Main Idea: The ministries of the church must partner with and equip families for discipleship within the family. Here are clearly defined and simple principles and processes, called Legacy Milestones, that Bryan Haynes implemented in his home and church to accomplish that goal. The Good: This book is concise, clear, thorough, and practical in laying out a strategy for the church to equip and encourage parents for family ministry. [&hellip

If one were to ask the average parent of a teenager to describe the experience of raising teens in one word, “opportunity” would almost certainly not be the word they would use. In fact , most parents regard this time in their child’s life as a terrifying and frustrating period that they can only hope to endure without injury or scandal. Paul David Tripp, however, writes that the teenage years [&hellip