When the black dog starts barking on Mondays these are among the notes he strikes. Ron Edmondson warns against trying to eliminate risk from leadership as a primary motivation for the following reasons: Here’s what you have to accept: It will be expensive – You’ll have to eliminate every thing which could go wrong. That …

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The first and last of these have proved to be very helpful over the years. Not easy to do, but very helpful. The importance of a of a leadership team of complementary skills and not clones is helpful, too. There are lots of constructive suggestions in the comment thread of the original post, as well. …

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I’ve got the ‘Let’s call Mondays our day off, but have meetings on three Monday nights of the month blues.’ Yeah, yeah, I know. Toughen up princ… er, pastor. Anyway, here’s a bunch of Twitter Tweets that mention pastors, collated by Thom Rainer. Numbers 7 and 10 made me smile. Numbers 2, 3, and 6 …

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Mark Altrogge provides another round of comments which preachers don’t really want to hear just after they’ve preached their sermon. I’m all clear on this lot anyway. You didn’t have much time to prepare this week, did you? I don’t care what my husband said, I liked that message. Do you ever have anybody review …

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