Author: Kris Tenny-Brittian

With over a decade of experience as a denominational leader and nearly double that as a church planter and church turnaround leader, Kris has given her life to transforming the church. She’s the author of Top Ten Ways to Defuse Your Congregational Time Bomb, The Reach and Serve Plan, Make a Decision; If Only, and From Hope to Habits. In addition, she’s the co-Founder and Director of the Effective Church Group’s PrayerPower Network, provides spiritual leadership coaching, and is an Adjunct Professor at Phillips Theological Seminary’s Center for Ministry & Lay Training where her courses include Leader Development, Spiritual Development, and Overcoming Conflict.

Essentials

This morning I saw a commercial for one of our local car dealerships. It was a commercial as on any other day in any other week, as though things are the same today as they were two weeks ago. Or a week ago, before schools began their who-knows-exactly-how-long closures. Before our adult children “sequestered” us. […]

Lead Like an Old English Sheepdog

For years I’ve asked my coaching clients, “What’s your hobby?” (because, Church Leaders – including you minister-types – it’s critical we have at least one hobby). It’s been said, though, that “those who can’t do teach,” and so I was caught a bit off-guard when a cohort of ministers I was coaching turned the question back on me, “So, […]

Prioritization: Where Do You Fit In?

My birthday was Sunday and for the first time I decided to give myself a gift. Not merely a present but, rather, a gift that will last the whole year. I decided to give myself the gift of “ME” – me first (okay, me second – but only after Jesus). I can hear the gasps […]

How Welcomed Are You?

First-Time Guests

Ministers and most (okay, many) church folk already know how important welcome is for guests and members. We know that welcome begins – or doesn’t – long before we get through the front or back doors. Everything from our parking lot to our signs and yard accoutrement tell folks – or should – what can […]

Slow… Steady… Strategic

The Power of Choice

[featured-img]One of the problems with high-functioning ministers is that our energy tends to always function quite highly, even to the point of dysfunction at times. Many of us score a high “P” on the Myers-Briggs Inventory (which, by the way stands for PANTS, as in fly-by-the-seat-of), so orderly doesn’t tend to be either in our […]