Preaching Leadership

  St. Paul has a lot to say about leadership—good and bad leadership—and how it influences the Church today, just as it did 2,200 years ago. Revelation is the “revealing” of God’s plan to us. It “clues us in” to what He is doing with us and how we can live our lives for His purpose—not our own. Revelation is transmitted in a variety of ways. In St. Paul’s case, he originally had virulent anti-Christian beliefs which gave him the experience of conversion and God came to work through this experience as a way to reveal Himself to us. God has worked to “write straight with crooked lines” with St. Paul and He has done with many of us. In St. Paul’s case, because he’s not so much recounting Jesus’ life and ministry like the Gospels are, but he’s commenting on, and explaining, how the Gospels say we should live the Christian life—how we should be leaders. Here are some of the things that I’ve come away with learning about leadership from Saint Paul: St. Paul often employs the...

Scripture-based leadership is using the Word of God to help us in our leadership responsibilities as faithful Christians. The Holy Scripture is full of wonderful things to uplift, challenge, sustain, and guide us. We should be using it!  In 2020, I wrote a seven-part series on Scripture-based leadership (available here  Part 1 of 7 ) that helps leaders use the Scripture in their personal reflections, but also for meetings, group activities, and team-building.  Let's use the gift that God has given us as a way to move forward and lead.

Welcome to my new blog! Learn more about my mission and reason for starting this blog here ! I hope you find it valuable in your faith and leadership journey. Please let me know what you think. Feel free to subscribe and comment. Thank you! Photo: Detail of  Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty c. 1160. Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Chasse with the Crucifixion and Christ in Majesty | French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)