Most leaders want the wins. They want the promotion, the momentum, the recognition, the clean metrics that make everything look smooth. The problem is that real leadership is usually built in the mess. Things break. People misunderstand. Projects drift. Emotions flare. If you lead long enough, you will inherit problems you did not create. You will also create a few problems yourself.

One of the simplest ways trust is built is when a leader owns the mess without flinching. Not the dramatic kind...

One of the most common questions Christian leaders ask is also one of the most misleading.

“Do you have peace about it?”

It sounds wise. It feels spiritual. It is often neither.

Peace has become the currency we use to avoid responsibility. We treat it like a green light from God, assuming that alignment will always feel calm, settled, and reassuring. When peace is absent, we hesitate. We wait. We assume something is wrong.

That assumption quietly paralyzes a lot of faithful leaders.

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Most leaders don’t break when things are hard.

They break when things are quiet.

Pressure feels honest. Crisis feels clarifying. When the room is loud and the stakes are obvious, leadership narrows. You act. You decide. You move. Even fear has a kind of focus when the threat is visible.

Silence is different.

Silence is when the emails stop coming. When prayer feels faithful but uneventful. When Scripture still matters, but no verse jumps off the page with instructions attached. Silence is when...

Today I hit a milestone I honestly did not see coming.

Christian Leadership in the Professional World has broken into the Top 50 Best Sellers on Amazon in three categories:

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I never expected this. Christian Leadership in the Professional World has already ranked #119 in Christian Professional Growth, #166 in Religious Leadership, and #219 in Men’s...

When I hit publish on Christian Leadership in the Professional World, I had no idea what to expect.

A framework built through crisis and failure. Stories about production outages...