Despite the chaotic TV version, succession is something leaders should start from the very beginning. It's not something just for retirement-age pastors and organizational heads. It's for leaders, at every career stage, who want to finish their

What Is a Successful Pastor?

Feb 27th, 2023 38m 49s

All leaders have a scorecard, a measure of what success looks like. These can vary, and generally, they're neither right nor wrong: Numeric growth, influence reach, facility upgrades. But for pastors — especially those prone to a "visionary" le

How to Equip People for the Work They're Called to Do

Feb 20th, 2023 50m 58s

For most of us, the word "work" mainly equates to compensation. But fundamentally, according to pastor Tom Nelson, work is far more: It's a vital part of being an image bearer of God, and it's not primarily about whether or not it earns monetar

Culture Is the Strategy

Feb 13th, 2023 37m 30s

The management guru Peter Drucker said famously that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” His point? Building a culture within an organization or company is really important. Despite the ubiquity of Drucker’s maxim, healthy organizational and

Faithful Presence Wherever You (and Your People) Are

Feb 6th, 2023 46m 53s

Do the math and you'll find that most of your time, if you subtract sleep, is spent working, whether paid or unpaid work. If this is true of pastors and leaders, how much more so is it for the people you lead? In this episode of The Flourishing

Pastor, Don't Fake It (Or: How to Be a Whole Person)

Jan 30th, 2023 45m 12s

You've heard that pastors and leaders should walk their talk. What is at the heart of that advice? Not perfection, but a consistency that reveals a life of wholeness. In this episode of The Flourishing Pastor Podcast, Nelson describes how a bif

Jesus' Great Invitation and Your Everyday Leadership

Jan 23rd, 2023 32m 55s

Absolutely, teaching and acquiring knowledge about the Bible and theology is vital for healthy churches. Yet it *is* possible to possess a lot of Bible information and still be spiritually and theologically immature — both for the the people in

Leading Through Crises Requires (True) Integrity

Jan 16th, 2023 33m 39s

King David shepherded his people according to the integrity of his heart. Leadership flows from who the leader is — or is not — on the inside. What does this mean for how you understand integrity, and what does it mean for how you approach lead

The Best Leaders Know How to Follow

Jan 9th, 2023 37m 56s

We often have a lot of different paradigms for leadership, many of which are good and helpful. But first and foremost — according to pastor Tom Nelson — leadership is followership. It may seem paradoxical, but it's a consistent thread in Script

Three Ways Pastors Get Lost, and How to Flourish Again

Dec 19th, 2022 39m 46s

It's no secret that not all pastors are flourishing, and certainly not all churches are flourishing. Is there a way to move into a flourishing reality? That's what pastor Tom Nelson discusses on the first, extended episode of "The Flourishing P

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