January 18, 2022 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
Stories abound in the news about the “great resignation” and how challenging employee retention is for many organizations. This is... Continue Reading
January 11, 2022 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
Admittedly, most of what I have set out as goals in the past have been goals related to acquiring, achieving,... Continue Reading
January 4, 2022 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
I find it puzzling that we readily accept the importance of practice in sports, in music, in any successful business,... Continue Reading
December 28, 2021 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
The Sacred Structures Website offers over 75 free church leadership resources for pastors, ministers and lay leaders. Here are the... Continue Reading
December 21, 2021 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
I am grateful for the many readers of my weekly blog and like to take the opportunity at the end... Continue Reading
December 14, 2021 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
In today’s public and private discourse listening to the opposition is considered taboo, much less yielding to their position. The... Continue Reading
December 7, 2021 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
In today’s world selecting and following leaders of companies, churches, organizations and governments based upon their positions on policy and... Continue Reading
November 30, 2021 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
My generation of church leaders were taught that a key part of our responsibility is protecting the church as an... Continue Reading
November 23, 2021 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
In our last two posts we have examined the challenges with pastor accountability and evaluation and provided a process to... Continue Reading
November 16, 2021 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
In our last article, The Conundrum of Pastor Accountability and Evaluation, we talked of the challenges in effectively and fairly... Continue Reading
November 9, 2021 1:01 am
Published by Jim Baker
As a general practice I am all for accountability, assuming it is healthy accountability. Therein as they say is “the... Continue Reading
November 2, 2021 1:18 am
Published by Jim Baker
Many who are in vocational ministry are beginning to accept the uneasy reality that for the remainder of their career... Continue Reading