Catalyst Articles

“I think people forget that pastors are people too, we have lives, we are broken, and we need help.

Life was full, overflowing with our hopes and expectations of a new season with growth and opportunities ahead. And then, on April 21, 2008, in the span of a few moments, all that we expected for our future rushed away like a waning ocean tide.

There’s a lot of encouragement to dream big, but more important than the size of the dream is where it’s really coming from and why. Is your dream really God’s vision for your life?

God was allowing my exhausted, weary self to surface, so I could make God known in 3 unexpected ways.

Simply put, Audrey Assad is one of our favorite worship leaders, as well as one of the bravest. Need proof? Audrey wrote her latest EP “Death, Be Not Proud,” while in her third trimester of pregnancy. When we heard about it we knew we needed to ask her a few questions about what that whole process was like.

Brad Lomenick sat down with Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback, Matt Barkley, to discuss both the right and wrong way to approach leadership at a young age.

In our culture of leadership and ladder-climbing, catch phrases and well-crafted truths, I am wondering if we can too easily lose the method that God has always used to show us His heart.

In my years of pastoring and counseling, I have become convinced that many of the problems we find within our leadership culture result from an unbiblical definition of success.

In the last decade, we have seen the church rise up and lean into what it means to love and serve the poor. From slavery and orphans, to clean water, foster care, homelessness, job creation and more -- God's people are on the move and they are trying to solve some of the worlds greatest problems. 

There is a point in ministry when you realize the calling is not as glamorous as you might have thought when you first fell in love with it.

What I don’t get is where to start. How do I find that calling? How do I know what I’m passionate about?  

Find where you, the team, or the organization has a weakness in these areas, and address it, either through people or processes.