“The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.” (Proverbs 11:3) As a leader, you are always making decisions. This is true if you are a parent leading a family, a manager leading a team, or a pastor leading a church. Some choices are small, like how to answer an email. Others are huge and can affect your children, your employees, or your whole community for years. In a world full of hard choices, what helps you decide? Do you

As a leader, whether you are guiding a family, a team at work, or a church ministry, it’s easy to get lost in planning. We think about the next project, the next family goal, or the next ministry event, and we focus on how to measure success. These things are useful, but they are not where we find our purpose. If we base our leadership on our plans, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment. Plans change, kids grow up, projects fail. If our purpose is tied to these thing

There’s a saying many of us have heard: “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” This idea makes sense to us. We want to do a good job, and it feels easier to just do it all ourselves. As leaders, we can fall into the trap of thinking we have to be involved in every single decision. We try to solve every problem for our family, our team, or our church. We mean well, but we end up becoming a roadblock where everyone has to wait for us. But what if this c