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The Painful Side of Leadership: Moving Forward Even When It Hurts is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christian leadership is often likened to the peaceful image of a shepherd leading his sheep. But the truth is that sheep tend to wander toward trouble, and shepherds don’t always handle the challenges of their job with grace and ease. The Painful Side of Leadership encourages and equips Christian leaders with biblical insights to better manage painful ministry circumstances, relationships, and...

Many leaders have a bigger vision than can be assimilated and lived by their followers. When leaders lose touch with this reality, they become angry and their followers become frustrated. The leader’s challenge is to maintain a healthy tension between vision and reality, between what can be and what is. Leaders must plan for the best, expect the worst, and adjust to what actually happens. While this is challenging (and can be painful) on a corporate level, it is even more difficult on a personal