Personality, talents, and body of knowledge are important when building ministry teams, but none are as valuable as spiritual gifts. Understand the differences between these categories and how to use them best when building your team.

Feeling overwhelmed with what’s on your plate this week? Let’s use your values (what and who you love) to give you some motivation and structure. Grab your fave journal and your best pen because we’re about to get into it!!

How successful your small group meetings are start way before people walk through your front door. Are you aware of these 7 factors that affect your small group?

Discover, name, and build confidence in your gifts and strengths. A FREE guided journaling practice for you to partner with God and uncover your strengths — What do you love? What threads can you see throughout your life? Can you reframe your weaknesses as things that serve you?

Getting alone with yourself and with God is of the highest importance to our spiritual lives and also to our mental, emotional, and physical lives, too.

It’s a cliched phrase, but you can’t pour from an empty cup. For those of us who are experiencing more time alone than usual, now might be the time to rethink our rhythms and how to invite God into them.

Here’s how I’m tending to each area of life with the Lord during “solitude” time:

You should have many mentors in your life, and here are 7 questions to ask your professional mentor. Ask her about her career path, what it’s like to be a woman in your field, and about generational differences.

If we don’t choose to let God renew our minds and transform us, we will be conformed to the world just by default. The ways that we live our lives and the habits we engage in are discipling us in SOMETHING. What that something is, however, is (by God’s grace) our decision…

While we should all have relationships with others who are beyond us in career, personal development, relationship stuff, anything—having a spiritual mentor and committing yourself to long-term discipleship is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself here on earth.