Catalyst Articles

Have you ever felt completely incompetent? Odds are, if you are in leadership, you’ve found yourself with a task staring you in the face that makes you question why it was given to you in the first place. It can leave you thinking ‘There’s no way I can finish this’ or ‘Someone else would be so much better at this’. But it’s the projects, meetings, and ideas that scare us the most that teach us the most.

These two qualities are necessary for the leader to be successful, to fight through the negativity, and to stay committed in the face of a lack of expected success. Read More...

This Catalyst written article dives deeper into the theme of courageous leadership.

My wife says sometimes I talk too much. It’s a little embarrassing to admit, but I know it’s true. If you have a pulse, I can and will talk with you. A lot. “You need to give others a chance to talk and just listen,” she’ll tell me. Just listen. Read More...

How do we let go of our own bad decisions and stop punishing ourselves? Learning to forgive can be hard, especially when we are the one in need. Read More...

In a time when we can curate, filter, and edit our lives to look however we want, it is becoming increasingly difficult to allow ourselves to be truly known. It’s just easier to create our lives from a distance than to share it up close. We’ve traded in the gold that comes from sharing our true lives for the fool’s gold that comes from sharing our highlight reel and hiding our hurt. And this trade comes at a cost.

Here are five traits to look for when seeking godly counsel.

Have you ever watched a meeting turn from constructive dialogue to a civil war? Read More...

How do we balance all of our different roles, and still honor the word by properly managing our own home and God’s church? I’d like to offer 3 suggestions on how to balance the demands of ministry and the demands of your home. Read More...

Around this time of year, Americans make resolutions, take goal-setting courses and look forward to the possibilities of a new year. Along with eating healthier, exercising more, and spending less, many of us commit to “read the Bible more.” But sometime in mid-to-late January, that resolution falls off. Read More...

The Bible is honest. It gives us its heroes, warts and all. That is not to discourage us but to give us hope that God can use people just like you and me. Read More...