Leading Requires Humility

Leading Requires Humility

8/21/22 by Larry Barker Zach Williams has a great song that says, “A little more like mercy, a little more like grace.  A little more like kindness, goodness, love, and faith.  A little more like patience, a little more like peace.  A little more like...
Leading is Not About Winning

Leading is Not About Winning

7/22/22 by Larry Barker Spiritual leadership is careful not to adopt an “us versus them” mentality.  Leadership commonly makes decisions by majority rule more than consensus.  Having the majority means if you agree with us, we win and if you disagree with us...
Leading Inside Out

Leading Inside Out

6/9/22 by Larry Barker In a culture full of celebrity preachers, comparisons, and competition what should biblical leadership look like in the local church?  Having charisma and competency has trumped character in far too many ministries.  In following...
Leading with Wisdom

Leading with Wisdom

6/26/2022 by Larry Barker The need for wisdom, discernment, and understanding is crucial today.  We do not need more man-made or man-originated wisdom but instead the wisdom that only comes from God.  In the now-classic, Experiencing God, Henry and Richard Blackaby...
DNA of a Church

DNA of a Church

6/10/22 by Larry Barker In I Thessalonians 1 Paul speaks to the believers thanking God for the church they had become.  He says that he remembers them often in his prayers and he recalls their “work of faith, labor of love, and endurance of hope.”  He is...