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Welcome back! Today, we're starting the new series I'm calling “Good to Great” for taking all aspects of our life and saying “let's take this from good to great”. We have a couple of months of amazing guests and amazing topics. There are so many things that I've learned for the first time that I have absolutely been blown away by the power of small shifts in my life.  Today, I'm with my good friend Dawn Sanders. I wanted to start with this conversation with Dawn for everyone who may be feeling like life has thrown them a curveball. If when you hear me say we're in “good to great”, you're like hey I'm not even in good right now, I wanted to start with a conversation for you.  Dawn and I are going to talk about what it looks like when we have to overcome something challenging when life throws us a curveball, and how we rebuild life. Maybe for you, it's not that everything is challenging, but there is one part of life that's challenging. I think this is going to be a conversation for you that you're going to get a ton out of.  Dawn Sanders is an associate minister at First Baptist Church of Glenarden, where she serves as the director of the sermon-based life groups ministry. Dawn has written and taught extensively on overcoming adversity and creating a new life, both at FBCG and on her personal blog. Join Dawn and I as we talk about: Dawn's journey of unexpected loss and the process of writing her new book Working through unresolved grief Identifying grief triggers and healing Taking time to heal vs. the pressure to move on God's creative process for rebuilding a life   Favorite quotes:  5:56 - “I had a wonderful mentor who said, “You can lay in bed for two days, but on the third day like Jesus you have to rise if only to take a shower and get back in bed.” 9:15 - “We don't know what the triggers for the grief are until the triggers happen.” 11:52 - “Take time in pockets where you can in order to let those feelings come.” 12:23 - “If you're feeling betrayed, teased, angry, hurt, disappointed, feel that. Don't let it go on and fester. The key is to not sin in it.” 16:19 - “The first step is just hovering with God and aligning ourselves with Him and waiting and trusting that he is going to shine some light.” 16:56 - “The first gift God gives us when He gives us life is time. He gives us time to heal and act.” 26:46 - “We have to be ready for the unexpected”.  Links to great things we discussed:  Dawn Sanders Website Dawn Sanders Instagram When Your World Ends: God's Creative Process for Rebuilding a Life Goodness of God - CeCe Winans Believe For It - CeCe Winans The Lazarus Project Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory Build a Coaching Business Quick Start Challenge Create a Course Alli on YouTube Remaining You While Raising Them Alli Worthington. Bestselling Author, Speaker, Business Coach. Little Things Studio Little Things Studio is a woman-owned small business bringing daily reminders of beauty and truth to your home and life. These thoughtfully-designed products are made in the USA and focus on the rich words of hymns and the beauty of nature.  Hope you loved this episode!  Be sure to subscribe in iTunes and slap some stars on a review! :) xo, Alli

Get notes on this podcast here:  https://churchleaders.com/podcast/490731-tod-bolsinger-trying-harder-crisis.html  Dr. Tod Bolsinger joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to explain the common mistakes even good leaders make during a crisis and how church leaders can be prepared to face a crisis when–not if–one comes. Sam Allberry joined us last week to share what he learned when his church had biblical teaching, but the gospel didn't seem to be permeating the culture. Sam explains how pastors can have orthodox preaching while also promoting a culture of “gospel safety.” Check out our conversation with him here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast/490194-sam-allberry-avoid-unpreaching-gospel.html    ► Listen on Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-churchleaders-podcast/id988990685   Visit ChurchLeaders Website: https://churchleaders.com Find ChurchLeaders on Facebook: https://facebook.com/churchleaders Follow ChurchLeaders on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChurchLead Follow ChurchLeaders on Instagram: https://instagram.com/churchlead/ Follow ChurchLeaders on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/churchleaders/ “How Not to Waste a Crisis: Quit Trying Harder” by Dr. Tod Bolsinger "Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory" by Dr. Tod Bolsinger Follow Tod on Facebook and X/Twitter

On this episode: Nate expresses gratitude and shares the role his wife played in starting the Samson Society. Aaron reflects on the Samson Summit and requests listeners to send in questions, experiences, and thoughts. Our Guest: Tod Bolsinger: former pastor, associate professor of leadership at De Pree Center, and author. Tod discusses what happens when old best practices no longer work, adaptive leadership. The differences between adaptive and technical leadership, learning in real time. The three hardest words in the English language: I don't know. The fallacy of “fake it till you make it.” Encouraging people to be themselves and bring their strengths into leadership. Links:   AE Sloan Leadership Book: Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change Sponsor: Life Works Counseling   If you have thoughts or questions that you'd like the guys to address in upcoming episodes or suggestions for future guests, please drop a note to piratemonkpodcast@gmail.com.   The music on this podcast is contributed by members of the Samson Society and www.fiftysounds.com. For more information on this ministry, please visit samsonsociety.com.  Support for the women who have been impacted by our choices is available at sarahsociety.com. The Pirate Monk Podcast is provided by Samson Society, a ministry of Samson House, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. To help support the vision, please consider a contribution to Samson House.

In this episode of the Unseen Leadership Podcast, Chandler Vannoy and Dan Iten are joined by Tod Bolsinger, who is a speaker, executive coach, former pastor, and author who serves as associate professor of leadership formation and senior fellow for the De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary. In this episode, Bolsinger discusses his background in leadership roles, including his experience in pastoral ministry and the pivotal moment that changed his approach to leadership. They also discuss the importance of adaptive leadership and building trust with followers, while also prioritizing the mission of organizations over personal recognition and success. This episode provides insights into Bolsinger's leadership journey and his approach to leading in a rapidly changing world. QUOTES FROM EPISODE 78 “You need trust for transformation, but trust is not true transformation. You being a highly trusted leader doesn't mean anybody's being changed. As a matter of fact, sometimes it means they will let you be the proxy for their formation and what you must learn is how to figure out how to invest that trust in calling people toward genuine transformation. That's what adaptive leadership is.” – Tod Bolsinger “The most important thing about our fruitfulness is that we are faithful to our mission. So obviously, the mission always wins. It's the mission, not the pastor, not the congregants, not the people the path the voices of the past, not the people. It's the mission.” – Tod Bolsinger “The hardest thing for me today is owning that the group is smarter than I am. But I'm not here to impress anybody. I'm here to express what God wants to do.” – Tod Bolsinger When you're experiencing conflict, what so many try to do is stop the conflict when what we need to do is learn from the conflict.” – Tod Bolsinger “The most soul-sucking thing for most leaders is not the challenges of the world, it's the resistance of your own people in your own congregation. It's your own team.” – Tod Bolsinger “Leaders are formed in the leading. So, if you're having a challenge right now, it's not that you messed up, missed a class, or didn't read a book. This is normal. It's normal for you because you became a leader right after you were good at something that was not leading.” – Tod Bolsinger “You become a leader in the crisis of leadership and the crucible of leadership. You must develop honest, vulnerable self-reflection. If you are only defending yourself, you will never be able to be open enough to the shaping that God wants to do in your life.” – Tod Bolsinger “A leader asking for loyalty is a sign of dysfunction almost every time.” – Tod Bolsinger RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change by Tod Bolsinger Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger Thriving through Ministry Conflict: A Parable on How Resistance Can Be Your Ally by James P. Osterhaus, Joseph M. Jurkowski, and Todd A. Hahn

In this episode, the dogs talk about Mike's future as a Jumpmaster (00:27), the start of the school year at UIC (13:13), and the difference between managers and leaders (19:00). Connor comes up with a new parable for the Gospel of Luke (27:00) and The Simpsons is referenced (35:58), twice (41:08). Quotes: "Leaders lead from the front." (Mike, 7:05) "I'm the go-to guy... not because it's "Mike", but because it's "Father", which is always a humbling reality.” (Mike, 9:28) “Manage to maintain vs actually drive a mission; that's the difference between a leader and a manager.” (Rob on leadership, 10:45) "Aim small, miss small." (Connor, 13:50) "Jesus is my ultimate horizon." (Connor 18:20) “If you're in communion with the Father then you have his vision, the divine perspective.” (Mike, 23:00) “I want to help my people to become fully who they were created to be.” (Mike, 25:35) "People who are holy, whether or not publicly recognized by the church as saints, keep the world from turning into hell." (Connor quoting Cardinal George, 28:29) "Life is a moment by moment expression of your identity." (Connor quoting Whitfield, 30:10) “Most of us live as if we're going somewhere, not as if we've arrived.” (Connor, 31:10) "That's the whole point of Moby Dick. Lisa, the point of Moby Dick is be yourself." (Rob quoting The Simpsons, 36:02) “The present is the place where infinite love finds its rays of glory.” (Mike quoting Lewis, 37:20) “The cemetery is full of indispensable people” (Connor, 42:40) Media Mentions: "They enlarged their phylacteries and lengthened their tassels." (Matthew 23:5)Tod Bolsinger's Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted TerritoryBob Schuchts' Be HealedLuke 13:18-21Charles L. Whitfield's Healing the Child WithinThe Simpsons S15 E5: The Fat and the FurriestC.S. Lewis' The Screwtape LettersThe Simpsons Movie- Whipping Dogs Sledding Scene References: JumpmasterParatrooperJumpMaster Personnel Inspection (JMPI)82nd Airborne DivisionBoy Scouts of AmericaLeadership: Vision- Alignment- AccountabilityCor Coffee"Nolite timere"- be not afraid (at the John Paul II Chapel at Mundelein)Bishop Robert BarronInstitute for Priestly Formation (IPF)Fellowship of Catholic University StudentsShared understanding (from the 7 Principles of Mission Command)North American MartyrsTwixSt. Francis of AssisiFr. James MallonHomer Follow us on instagram @threedogsnorth Contact us at threedogsnorth@gmail.com

Episode 212: What We've Been Reading   Alan's List RARE Leadership by Wilder and Warner brain science and leadership (Fast track versus slow track) identity is fast track, but we tend to try an grow spiritually on the slow track) Remain Relational Act Like Yourself Return to Joy Endure Hardships Well why accountability fails -its fear based Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte organizing and gaining more productivity out of ourselves through leveraging technology The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership by James Hunter Several Books about WWII A Higher Call - Adam Makos Taregt Tokyo  - by James M .Scott Race of Aces - John Bruning Valley Forge by Drury and Clavin   Trent's List  I am a terrible reader but listen to audio books on audible - subscription holds me accountable Made to Stick   Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath Winning the War in Your Mind  Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life By: Craig Groeschel The Ruthless Elimination of HurryHow to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World By: John Mark Comer What Got You Here Won't Get You ThereHow Successful People Become Even More Successful By: Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter Any book by Jon Gordon The Energy Bus Training camp The Carpenter The Seed Canoeing the Mountains Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory By: Tod Bolsinger Getting ready to start Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People  Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities By: Renee Evenson Contact Alan: alan@dtbatogether.com Contact Trent: gasconadevalleybaptist@gmail.com Facebook Website

Leadership of the past meant coming up with answers. Today, leadership means asking questions.Tod Bolsinger, the author of Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory joins host Jon Eckert to discuss what questions Christian leaders can start asking to become stronger leaders. One of the main questions he advises leaders to ask themselves is what can be eliminated from our life in order to focus on our priorities.  To learn more, order Jon's book, Just teaching: Feedback, engagement, and well-being for each student.The Just Schools Podcast is brought to you by the Baylor Center for School Leadership. Each week, we'll talk to catalytic educators who are doing amazing work.Be encouraged.Timestamps:[1:40] - Tod is introduced.[2:40] - Every Christian leader is committed to show up as the same person in every setting.[4:30] - Tod defines leadership.[6:15] - Adaptive leadership is when you don't have an existing best practice.[9:25] - Having to identify and name competing values is a challenge.[10:41] - The pandemic has shifted how we see a college education.[11:50] - What questions can leaders be asking?[14:45] - Every school sits down and finds out what their hedgehog is, but don't always make decisions based on it.[17:45] - Leaders never get praised for telling people "no".[18:52] - Experimental innovations are the key to surviving in a changing world.[24:10] - Take one small step to create big change.[27:43] - How can looking at our mortality help us reframe how we see our time?[30:50] - Jon puts Tod through a lightning round of questions.Links:The 'No' in 'Innovate' by Jon EckertBooks:Just teaching: Feedback, engagement, and well-being for each student by Jon EckertCanoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod BolsingerThink Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam GrantWhy We're Polarized by Ezra KleinConnect on Social Media:Baylor MA in School LeadershipBaylor Doctorate in EducationJon Eckert: @eckertjonCenter for School Leadership at Baylor University: @baylorcsl

Things are changing faster than ever. Churches, like many organizations, struggle to know what to do. Occasionally, you find a church that seems to be able to take new challenges head on. In this episode, you'll discover why some churches adapt, and how you can be more adaptive yourself.Tod Bolsinger, MDiv, PhD, the co-owner and principal of AE Sloan Leadership, Inc, an executive coaching and consulting firm that works with church, non-profit, and marketplace leaders in leading change. He is also the Executive Director of the De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute, a Senior Fellow of the De Pree Center for Leadership, Associate Professor of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary, was the founder of the Fuller Leadership Platform, and served as a Vice President of Fuller Seminary for six years. Prior to his educational career, he served as a pastor for 27 years.  He is the author of five books, including the Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in pastoral leadership, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory, Leadership for a Time of Pandemic: Practicing Resilience and most recently, Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change.  He can be reached at bolsinger@aesloanleadership.com Related Resources:Tod Bolsinger: Spiritual Capacity for Leading Adaptive Change | Bonus Episode, Season 1

Burning out is not an inevitable part of leadership but it is a common one; leaders can care for themselves and each other as they avoid burnout where possible, heal from burnout where necessary and use burnout to learn new ways of life. Subscribe to our newsletter Conversation Overview What is burnout? How do we distinguish between burnout, stress, depression, fatigue, etc.? How do our mental models and vows contribute to our tendency to burn out? How can we recover from burnout? How can we protect ourselves and those we lead from burnout?  Links Faithwalking Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders by Mark Sayers Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski Emily & Amelia Nagoski on Unlocking Us podcast with Brene Brown Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue by Edwin H. Friedman Thank you for listening. If you enjoy listening to The Leader's Journey Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends on Facebook … Thank you!

Leading organizations through change is essential to leadership but also one of the hardest things to do. Eventually, too many leaders succumb to a failure of nerve or of heart.On this episode, Matt and Ben interview Tod Bolsinger, author of Tempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change, about the how leaders are formed and shaped in the stresses of organizational change. Links from this episode:AE Sloan LeadershipTempered Resilience: How Leaders Are Formed in the Crucible of Change (Tod Bolsinger)Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory (Tod Bolsinger)@TodBol (Twitter)Tod Bolsinger (LinkedIn)Review Leading Forward in Apple Podcasts and let us know what you think of the show.Keep up with the show on social media: Twitter // Facebook // Instagram

In this episode of We Are Vineyard, Jay Pathak and Tod Bolsinger discuss adaptive change in the church. Tod speaks about how his passion for studying change and helping “faith leaders thrive as change leaders” developed, and the role of the pastor as a steady force in the midst of crisis and anxiety. Tod and Jay also talk about what we learned from the crucible of change that was the pandemic. Tod Bolsinger, MDiv, PhD, the co-owner and principal of AE Sloan Leadership, Inc, an executive coaching and consulting firm that works with church, non-profit, and marketplace leaders in leading change. He is also the Executive Director of the De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute, a Senior Fellow of the De Pree Center for Leadership, Associate Professor of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary, was the founder of the Fuller Leadership Platform, and served as a Vice President of Fuller Seminary for six years. Prior to his educational career, he served as a pastor for 27 years.  He is the author of five books, including the Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in pastoral leadership, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory, Leadership for a Time of Pandemic: Practicing Resilience and most recently, Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change. Show Notes: Tempered Resilience by Tod Bolsinger Vineyard USA's recommended reading for February https://amzn.to/3LEdIV8 Canoeing the Mountains by Tod Bolsinger https://amzn.to/3oT6fb7 Reach us at: VineyardUSA.org Facebook, Instagram and Twitter: @VineyardUSA

Meet Beth Backes, the lead pastor of The Table, a new church plant officially launching in the Spring of 2022! Listen in as Beth and Lisa discuss the trials and triumphs of female leadership including tips for keeping ourselves connected to Jesus while leading others to do the same. Beth inspires us to keep an eternal perspective even when the results of our obedience don't look like earthly success. At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy and Priorities working in Your Favor by Carey Nieuwhof Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod E. Bolsinger  The Best Yes by Lysa Terkurst Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown Be The Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison Joyce Meyers Ruth Haley Barton

Meet Beth Backes, the lead pastor of The Table, a new church plant officially launching in the Spring of 2022! Listen in as Beth and Lisa discuss the trials and triumphs of female leadership including tips for keeping ourselves connected to Jesus while leading others to do the same. Beth inspires us to keep an eternal perspective even when the results of our obedience don't look like earthly success. At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy and Priorities working in Your Favor by Carey Nieuwhof Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod E. Bolsinger  The Best Yes by Lysa Terkurst Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown Be The Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison Joyce Meyers Ruth Haley Barton

Rev. Dr. Tod Bolsinger joined Fuller Seminary in 2014 as vice president for vocation and formation and assistant professor of practical theology, and he now serves as vice president and chief of leadership formation. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1993, Dr. Bolsinger served in pastoral ministry for over 25 years before transitioning to Fuller.  Tod the author of several books including three books, It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives (Brazos, 2004), Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory (IVP Books, 2015) and most recently Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are formed in the crucible of Change (IVP 2020). On November 18, 2021 14 American Baptist regions will partner together to offer a free webinar titled “Adaptive Leadership” where Dr. Tod Bolsinger will share insights from his book Canoeing the Mountains and other morsels of wisdom on leadership formation and innovation to encourage and equip pastors and leaders for the ever changing missional landscape. The event is free to pastors in our regions. Be sure to contact your region office to learn more and how to receive the zoom link to log-in and learn with us live on November 18, 2021.   Links: https://www.aesloanleadership.com/ https://depree.org/church/ https://www.fuller.edu/faculty/tod-bolsinger/ www.abcnebraska.com www.table-life.org https://wordandway.org/2021/11/03/physical-media-streaming-and-ministry-as-metaphor/ https://www.amazon.com/Table-Life-Invitation-Everyday-Discipleship/dp/0817018158/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=table+life&qid=1591799409&sr=8-3  

Tod Bolsinger SENIOR CONGREGATIONAL STRATEGIST AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LEADERSHIP FORMATION BA, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE MDIV, PHD, FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Tod Bolsinger joined Fuller Seminary in 2014 as vice president for vocation and formation and assistant professor of practical theology, and he now serves as vice president and chief of leadership formation. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1993, Dr. Bolsinger served as senior pastor of San Clemente Presbyterian Church from 1997 to 2014. Prior to that he was associate pastor of discipleship and spiritual formation at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Holding both a PhD in Theology and Master of Divinity from Fuller, Bolsinger taught graduate-level classes in theology for 14 years at Fuller's regional campus in Orange County prior to joining the seminary's regular faculty. He has extensive experience in church and nonprofit consulting and executive coaching, and writes infrequent weblogs on church and leadership formation. His faculty role at Fuller includes teaching the Practices of Vocational Formation class and a cohort in Leading Change for DMin students. Bolsinger has authored three books, It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian: How the Community of God Transforms Lives (Brazos, 2004), Show Time: Living Down Hypocrisy by Living Out the Faith (Baker, 2005), and Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory (IVP Books, 2015). Bolsinger has also written a chapter about building community in a virtual world in the book The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ (Crossway, 2008) and contributes essays and articles to journals in the areas of leadership, spiritual formation, leadership formation, and innovation.

Dr. Tod Bolsinger talks about navigating uncertainty and change using the principles of adaptive leadership taught in his books Canoeing the Mountains and Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change. Bio: Tod Bolsinger (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is a speaker, executive coach, former pastor, and author who serves as associate professor of leadership formation and senior fellow for the De Pree Center for Leadership at Fuller Seminary. He is the author of Tempered Resilience and Canoeing the Mountains, which was named Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in Pastoral Leadership, as well as the Christianity Today Award of Merit recipient It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian. A frequent speaker and consultant, he serves as an executive coach for corporate, nonprofit, educational, and church organizations in transformational leadership. For seventeen years, he was the senior pastor of San Clemente Presbyterian Church in San Clemente, California, after serving for ten years at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. Tod and his wife, Beth, have two children.   Books by Tod: Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory https://amzn.to/2T8Wf0u Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change https://amzn.to/2TIeVV1 It Takes a Church to Raise a Christian https://amzn.to/3wa2orI Books Recommended by Tod: Ronald Heifetz The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World https://amzn.to/3pDv5Ly Edwin Friedman Failure of Nerve https://amzn.to/2TK6oAW Jonathan Sacks Lessons in Leadership. Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible https://amzn.to/3v6A48C Connect with Tod Bollinger: Text “Change” to 66866 for information on Tod's coaching Twitter: @todbol De Pree Center at Fuller Seminary: Church Leadership Institute https://depree.org/church/ Connect with Brian Russell: Information about Brian's Fall 2021 book Centering Prayer: How Sitting Quietly in God's Presence Can Change Your Life www.centeringprayerbook.com or preorder: https://amzn.to/3pDpN2E Twitter: @briandrussell Instagram: @yourprofessorforlife Coaching for Pastors: www.deepdivespirituality.com Business and Life Coaching: www.drbrianrussellcoaching.com Brian Russell's Book on the Missional Interpretation of Scripture: (Re)Aligning with God: Reading Scripture for Church and World https://amzn.to/3qln258 Links to Amazon are affiliate links. Dr. Russell receives a small payment if you order resources through these links. There is no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting the podcast through your purchases. Please tell your friends about the Deep Dive Spirituality Videocast. It's also available on Spotify, Podbean, and iTunes as a podcast.  

Two Feet Walking: Part 3 APRIL 21, 2021 By The Leader's Journey (Edit) Between the pace of change and the complexity of modern life, congregational leadership isn't just one thing and can't be done by just one person. In order to stay balanced and effective, leaders must learn to engage the complexity of both making individual disciples and mobilizing a group of people to engage a shared mission. We call this Two Feet Walking. In this episode, we talk about integration–the ability to walk with both feet in a natural cadence and rhythm of leadership. We also address the obstacles to this way of leading–overwhelm and fatigue, job descriptions and congregational expectations and the danger of trying to do it alone. Subscribe | Rate & Review Conversation overview: Living in liminal space Integration: the rhythm of walking with both feet List of skills related to leading individuals to maturity and transformation List of skills related to leading groups of people to accomplish a shared mission Making new maps Addressing the obstacles: overwhelm, job descriptions and congregational expectations and giving the work back to others Resources Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You Are Going: Leading In A Liminal Season by Susan Beaumont Family Systems and Congregational Life by Robert Creech Doing the Math of Mission: Fruits, Faithfulness, and Metrics by Gil Rendle Traction: Get A Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman Generating and Sustaining Creative Tension: An Overview by Jim and Trisha Resources for deconstructing your first formation: Becoming a Healthier Pastor by Ronald Richardson An Introduction to Trauma for Leaders: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Quit Getting In Your Own Way Faithwalking Resources for Skill Development: Being an Emotional Grown-up: Defined and Connected in an Emotionally Charged System Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, et. al. Leading in a Politically Charged Culture Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs by Steve Cuss Resources for Coaching: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey Coaching: The Art of Creating a Safe and Challenging Space Resources for Skill Development: How did Jesus deal with Conflict? Growing Yourself Up by Jenny Brown Resources for Missional Living: How did Jesus deal with Conflict? Growing Yourself Up by Jenny Brown Resources for Skill Development: Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger The Gospel Next Door: Following Jesus Right Where You Are by Marty Troyer Thank you for listening. If you enjoy listening to The Leader's Journey Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends on Facebook … Thank you! Filed Under: Leadership, Podcast Grow Your Team's EQ! There is a symbiotic relationship between the places that your organization is stuck or stopped and the level of emotional maturity of the organization's leadership. LEARN MORE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST!

Between the pace of change and the complexity of modern life, congregational leadership isn't just one thing and can't be done by just one person. In order to stay balanced and effective, leaders must learn to engage the complexity of both making individual disciples and mobilizing a group of people to engage a shared mission. We call this Two Feet Walking. In this episode, we explore the skills that leaders must have to mobilize a group of people to engage a shared mission in a rapidly changing cultural and religious context.  Subscribe | Rate & Review Conversation overview: Vision, map-making and liminal space Accountability and conflict resolution as essential skills Responding to complexity Self-care in the midst of loss Giving the work away Resources How to Lead When You Don't Know Where You Are Going: Leading In A Liminal Season by Susan Beaumont Family Systems and Congregational Life by Robert Creech Doing the Math of Mission: Fruits, Faithfulness, and Metrics by Gil Rendle Traction: Get A Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman Generating and Sustaining Creative Tension: An Overview by Jim and Trisha Resources for deconstructing your first formation: Becoming a Healthier Pastor by Ronald Richardson An Introduction to Trauma for Leaders: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Quit Getting In Your Own Way Faithwalking Resources for Skill Development: Being an Emotional Grown-up: Defined and Connected in an Emotionally Charged System Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, et. al. Leading in a Politically Charged Culture Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs by Steve Cuss Resources for Coaching: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey Coaching: The Art of Creating a Safe and Challenging Space Resources for Skill Development: How did Jesus deal with Conflict? Growing Yourself Up by Jenny Brown Resources for Missional Living: How did Jesus deal with Conflict? Growing Yourself Up by Jenny Brown Resources for Skill Development: Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger The Gospel Next Door: Following Jesus Right Where You Are by Marty Troyer Thank you for listening. If you enjoy listening to The Leader's Journey Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends on Facebook … Thank you!    

Congregational leadership isn't just one thing and can't be done by just one person. In order to stay balanced and effective, leaders must learn to engage the complexity of both making individual disciples and mobilizing a group of people to engage a shared mission. We call this Two Feet Walking. Subscribe | Rate & Review Conversation overview: Rapidly changing ministry contexts require complex leadership Two Feet Walking Ministry leadership as developing individual disciples to live missionally Being fully human – woundedness and flourishing Being people who can handle conflict well Resources for deconstructing your first formation: Becoming a Healthier Pastor by Ronald Richardson An Introduction to Trauma for Leaders           Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Quit Getting In Your Own Way Faithwalking Resources for Skill Development: Being an Emotional Grown–up: Defined and Connected in an Emotionally Charged System Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, et. al. Leading in a Politically Charged Culture Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs by Steve Cuss Resources for Coaching: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey Coaching: The Art of Creating a Safe and Challenging Space Resources for Skill Development: How did Jesus deal with Conflict? Growing Yourself Up by Jenny Brown Resources for Missional Living: How did Jesus deal with Conflict? Growing Yourself Up by Jenny Brown Resources for Skill Development: Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger The Gospel Next Door: Following Jesus Right Where You Are by Marty Troyer Thank you for listening. If you enjoy listening to The Leader's Journey Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends on Facebook … Thank you!

This conversation picks up with a discussion about the COVID vaccine (IMPORTANT: T.E.A. Time's hosts do not promote, nor discourage anyone from the taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Please consult you doctor for information); however, the purpose of the conversation is to shed light on how we should include God in our decision making. Scripture References: James 1:2-4 Isaiah 30:15 Romans 12:1-2 Show Notes: A.W. Tozer in Mark Batterson's: In a Pit with a Lion on Snowy Day Tod Bolsinger in Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory Logos Bible Commentary (online) She Reads Truth: De-Resolutions & Daily Life with Jesus www.shereadstruth.com/podcast/de-resolutions-and-daily-life-with-jesus

Tod Bolsinger, MDiv, PhD, is the Executive Director of the De Pree Center Church Leadership Initiative, a Senior Fellow of the De Pree Center for Leadership, and Associate Professor of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. Tod was the founder of the Fuller Leadership Platform, an innovative approach to online formation and leadership development and served as a Vice President of Fuller Seminary for six years.    He is the author of four books, including the Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in pastoral leadership, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory, Leadership for a Time of Pandemic: Practicing Resilience and Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change. He served as a pastor for 27 years. Bolsinger speaks, consults and is an executive coach for corporate, non-profit, educational and church organizations in transformational leadership. His blogs and other resources can be found at depree.org/church.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brian interviews Dr. Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory. Tod is the Vice President and chief of leadership formation at Fuller Seminary. He is an ordained pastor and consults and coaches with churches and nonprofits.    Adaptive challenges are those that “cannot be solved with one's existing knowledge and skills, requiring people to make a shift in their values, expectations, attitudes, or habits of behavior.”   An understanding of this kind of adaptive leadership has three characteristics: 1. a changing environment where there is no clear answer 2. the necessity for both leaders and followers to learn, especially the leader's own ongoing transformation 3. the unavoidable reality that a new solution will result in loss   From Tod's book, a list of questions and suggestions he often asks his coaching clients: What is the song behind the words that is keeping us all dancing? In other words, what deeper tune of the church is getting played in this circumstance? What is going on in this situation that nobody is talking about but is affecting the whole system of the church? - p 115 I also often coach my pastor clients to give a yearly “I Have a Dream” sermon in order to keep raising the urgency in the congregation. - p 142 As a coach to pastors, I am almost always in the role of confidant. - p 159 I tell my coaching clients, “You must bring yourself to your role, but you are not your role.” - p 211 I often coach my clients, “Make your goal in every conversation to have someone roll their eyes upward (which indicates that they are thinking differently) and say, ‘That's a great question.'” - p 213 Text canoeing to 66866 for more resources from Tod

On this episode, the guys summarize their favorite themes from Salt Conference 2020. From burnout and sustainability to church unity and personal calling, the guys examine some of their Salt conference takeaways through the Blackbar lens. Episode Resources:Salt University https://saltuniversity.com/Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsingerhttps://www.amazon.com/Canoeing-Mountains-Christian-Leadership-Uncharted/dp/0830841261Enneagram Type Assessment https://assessment.yourenneagramcoach.com/Click the link below to join the Blackbar Community on Discord:http://discord.blk.bar/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/blkbar)

This episode is a bit different than normal as J.R. recommends the four books to help you grow in your resilience.· Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Greg McKeown)· Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Cal Newport)· Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High (Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler)· Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory (Tod Bolsinger)______What topics do you want us to feature on the podcast?Which episode has been most helpful?Which one do you disagree with the most?I'd love to hear from you.Connect with J.R.Kairos Partnerships: www.kairospartnerships.orgContact: www.kairospartnerships.org/contactTwitter: @jr_briggsInstagram: @jrbri.ggs**Resilient Leaders is produced by Joel Limbauan at On a Limb Productions: www.onalimbproductions.com

Every Pastor Podcast with Adam Clagg and Brandon Johns https://www.facebook.com/everypastorpodcast ++Like our Facebook page to be entered for a drawing for a book by Karl Vaters, small church ministry expert.++ Resources Mentioned (with affiliate links to support our podcast) Spiritual Disciplines by Donald Whitney https://amzn.to/2Syu3Ar The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell https://amzn.to/3ls7MRv Where is God when It Hurts? by Yancey https://amzn.to/33GpUkC Inside Out by Larry Crabb https://amzn.to/3nstJSk Pursuit of God by Tozer https://amzn.to/3nrNo4J (Free on Kindle right now) Breakout Churches by Rainer https://amzn.to/30HV2hr Good to Great by Jim Collins https://amzn.to/36OH3dw In A Pit With A Lion on a Snowy Day by Mark Batterson https://amzn.to/36ITrM7 Communicated for a Change by Andy Stanley & Lane Jones https://amzn.to/2FaCWxh Wild at Heart by John Eldridge https://amzn.to/3jKdzRS (check out the "Field Manual, too) You Win the Locker Room First by Jon Gordon https://amzn.to/36DODYF Call of the Wild https://amzn.to/30Gph8y Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory https://amzn.to/2SCDGhQ

In this episode, we journey into the world of adaptive leadership through Tod Bolsinger's book "Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory".

It's a lot of fun to have friends and colleagues who are also writers and in this series we want to introduce some of them to you. In our conversation with Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory, he talks with us about how to lead when you don't know what to do. He quotes a pastor who told him, “I think I can learn adaptive change but I'm not sure I can survive it.” In this episode, Dr. Bolsinger reminds us that we can grow our leadership resilience through reflection, relationships and a rule of life. Conversation Overview: • The challenges of 2020: 1918, 1929 and 1968 all at the same time • Managing your anxiety about leadership and enter into a learning process • Lead through loss • Learning from people on the margins • Growing resilience when you face a mountain of despair • Tempered steel as an example of being forged for resilience and effectiveness • Accepting that not everyone will come with us when we lead • Resilience comes when we are able to ground ourselves in something other than our own success as leaders • Leading in exile • Looking and Listening: Listening as attunement; Looking from the balcony Resources: For more from Tod Bolsinger, text UNCHARTED to 66866 and connect to his resources. Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory Leadership for a Time of Pandemic Thank you for listening. If you enjoy listening to The Leader's Journey Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends on Facebook … Thank you!

Dr. LeRoy Hill, Jr. speaks wisdom on how The Noble Man Prioritizes Relationships this week on podcast. Dr. Hill is the Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Portsmouth, VA, established in 1865.  2 Timothy 2:1-3 launches our discussion. These verses have been a prominent theme at Noble Warriors lately, and they just so happen to be Dr. Hill's defining verse. “I encourage all men to find themselves in a verse.”  “You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.”  Becoming a “good soldier of Christ,” or you might say a Noble Warrior, involves teaching others who can teach others. In order to follow Paul's command here we must have relationships with other guys. Listen to Dr. Hill's own experience here on the ways he's implemented this idea throughout his life and ministry.  Tips:  Go deep. We're 300 miles wide but only 1 inch deep.  Create “bubbles,” a covenant relationship with 3 or 4 men who have “refrigerator rights” - the right to know my business and ask me anything.  Every Paul needs a Timothy, and every Timothy needs a Paul.  Selection is the method tap God uses to tap men. We need to model that – powered by prayer.  Humility, time, and intentionality are key.  If you're going to have a friend, you have to learn to be a friend. Jesus modeled that.  Men need men.  Stop all the branding and be biblical.  Masculinity is not toxic, but sin is.  Men have a responsibility that holds the family, community, and church in balance.  Don't underestimate the power of bringing your wives together.  Pastors can't be the entire church's best friend.  We need to have some friends that don't look like us and have the same stories that we do.  Resources:  Barna Journal – Five Essentials to Engage Today's Men  Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory by Tod Bolsinger  View Show Notes: NobleWarriors.org/Episode22 Leave a Review: If you like what you've been hearing, we invite you to leave us a review. Tell us what you love about this episode!  More Resources and Encouragement: NobleWarriors.org  © Copyright 2020 All rights reserved  

Today Brian interviews Dr. Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory. Tod is the Vice President and chief of leadership formation at Fuller Seminary. He is an ordained pastor and consults and coaches with churches and nonprofits.    Adaptive challenges are those that “cannot be solved with one's existing knowledge and skills, requiring people to make a shift in their values, expectations, attitudes, or habits of behavior.”   An understanding of this kind of adaptive leadership has three characteristics: 1. a changing environment where there is no clear answer 2. the necessity for both leaders and followers to learn, especially the leader's own ongoing transformation 3. the unavoidable reality that a new solution will result in loss   From Tod's book, a list of questions and suggestions he often asks his coaching clients: What is the song behind the words that is keeping us all dancing? In other words, what deeper tune of the church is getting played in this circumstance? What is going on in this situation that nobody is talking about but is affecting the whole system of the church? - p 115 I also often coach my pastor clients to give a yearly “I Have a Dream” sermon in order to keep raising the urgency in the congregation. - p 142 As a coach to pastors, I am almost always in the role of confidant. - p 159 I tell my coaching clients, “You must bring yourself to your role, but you are not your role.” - p 211 I often coach my clients, “Make your goal in every conversation to have someone roll their eyes upward (which indicates that they are thinking differently) and say, ‘That's a great question.'” - p 213 Text canoeing to 66866 for more resources from Tod