Many children and increasingly adults are being diagnosed with conditions such as Autism, and church can be a challenging place to be. Many parents avoid bringing their children to church, and a lack of understanding can hamper our ability to care well for such children as well as adults. As we continue our Leading Diversity series we are joined by…

In this episode, we explore how the church should be part of our family and our family part of a healthy local church. We see the rich range of opportunities for our family to benefit from being a full and meaningful part of our local church community. We look at 5 key ways the local church helps us in our journey to be an Intentional Father allowi…

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Dad’s need to be able to have difficult conversations with their children about potentially awkward topics such as sex, masturbation, pornography, relationships. However many men are not good at having these conversations with anyone let alone their teenager. This episode explores how we can do this better with our children to help build stronger r…

Diversity - singleness What does it look like to be a church that welcomes single people? How do we care for those who don’t have children? What does it mean for single people to be in a ‘church family’? As part of our series on Leading Diversity, we’re joined by Jennie Pollock to discuss singleness and the conversation just flowed. Jennie is a wri…

Session 5: Review and Reflect At the half way point of our journey of Intentional Fatherhood, we want to stop and spend some time drilling in on one intentional action that we are going to plan for and work on with our children. This will help us not just talk and think about what we need to do but to actually take intentional actions to build deep…

Session 4: Becoming a Good Man/Good Woman In a society where clarity around gender roles in increasingly harder to clarify we need to be able to understand what a “good man” looks like and communicate this clearly to our sons and daughters. Being a father is not about efficiency; it’s about discipleship. It’s not about time management; it’s about h…

As part of our series on Leading Diversity, we’re joined by Dr Rachel Owusu-Ankomah to discuss questions such as what can it be like to be in a majority-white church as a person of colour? Why is an ethnically diverse church worth fighting for? Why is it hard to live and worship together with people who can seem different from us? How can I learn f…

In session 3 we look at why it is important to understand your child. This is understanding their personality, their preferences, and their physiological and psychological stage of human development. Understanding our child better will help us adapt our approach to conversations, conflict, and experiences. Our goal as parents is to help our childre…

Continuing our Leading Diversity series this is a fascinating discussion with Andrew Bunt. We discuss how there are many same-sex attracted people who have found that church isn’t a home for them. We discuss how local churches can be places where people are welcomed. Our conversation touches on a number of sensitive but vital issues including singl…

We need to have a vision of the day our sons/daughters will leave our homes and work backward from that day with a plan to help them gain the knowledge, skills, character, and experiences they need. This will enable them to move into the world as confident and healthy adults.

In this new series we look at some of the different groups in our church and organsations, we seek to identify their perspectives, needs and challenges to help us lead them well. In this episode we talk with Chris Spicer a well known author and speaker about how we can intentionally build multigenerational churches where we don’t treat older folks …

This is the first episode of our new course called The Intentional Father. This podcast supports a free course we have written based on the material from Jon Tyson's book "The Intentional Father". The aim of this course is to help fathers think about how they are parenting their children and to make intentional and practical steps towards building …

Being able to catch the mood of the moment and respond effectively for the good of the group Groupthink is a very powerful thing, in fact there is a great deal of social psychological research that proves that people will behave in line with the group, rather than stand out from the crowd We see it in churches all the time. There is a mood among th…

Managing emotions is the ability to regulate your impulses in leadership. In this episode, we explore how you can do this to help those who follow you.

This is the ability primarily to understand the emotional makeup of other people and the skill of dealing with people based on their emotional reactions. If we can’t read other people’s emotional reactions effectively we will often switch them off from engaging with us or our leadership plans. One of Tim's phrases is “read between the lines” or rea…

In this episode, we unpack the idea of being self-aware. Self-awareness is the ability to recognize and understand your own emotions, tendencies, thoughts, strengths/weaknesses, values and abilities. Beyond just recognising your emotions, however, is being aware of the effect of your actions, moods, and emotions on other people. Self-aware people a…

In our 2nd episode on People Wisdom we will seek to lay a foundation of our wisdom in God, being aware of God in your life, being grounded and secure in him. However it is also being aware of what God is doing in your life in each season, being aware of what God is doing in the church/ team, being aware of what God is doing/ speaking to other peopl…

We are going to introduce something to you in the next mini series that has come from our own experience in Leadership over many years but has of course been influenced by many brilliant leadership authors and thinkers. We all know leaders who we love as people, we respect them. Often these leaders have a great plan they know what to do to bring ab…

How do we discern the difference between someone who has genuine mental health difficulties and someone who is just using the mental label as an excuse to avoid facing the realities of life? In this episode we explore the role society has played in creating people who are mentally fragile and how as christians we can challenge these ideas.…

We want to be able to help people but often what we do doesn’t seem to help or make much impact. In this episode we explore how we need a holistic approach to helping people find mental health. We consider how we can only understand the cure if we understand the cause. Our brokenness as human beings is complex and we need to see healing as more tha…

How do we recognise the role of evil spiritual forces which are working in someone’s life? In this episode we explore the role of the enemy in people who struggle with their mental health. We look at how we identify demonic influence and how as leaders we can respond appropriately to help bring people into freedom.…

Data suggests that 1 in 4 of us will struggle with a mental health condition at some point in our lives.The idea of mental ill health is well established as a concept but there is still a great deal of confusion around the subject. In this episode we seek to provide a useful explanation of mental ill health, how it is caused and how we can identify…

Are the words Depression or schizophrenia mentioned in the bible? They aren’t, but just read Psalm 42 – you see so many signs of depression there – low mood, low energy, low interest, anxiety, loss of appetite, social withdrawal, disturbed sleep, hopelessness, self-blame… In this episode we want to try and present a balanced and biblical view of me…

Social media (by which we mean - Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, Whats App Status/ groups) is now a major way that we connect and communicate with people in our churches as well as people outside our organisations. People don’t just want information, they want connection. Social media provides a form of connection that has previously never b…

Has, at times, our preaching become too influenced by worldly methods and themes? Are we truly confident in the power of the word? Have we sometimes compromised style for substance? Have we lost some of the prophetic edge in our preaching? This week in our MLG Podcast I am joined by Chris Spicer who has been preaching and teaching all over the worl…

Getting people to "buy in" to you as a leader and what where you feel called to lead them is super important. A leader without anyone following them is just a person taking a walk! In this episode we look at how we encourage people to buy in to our vision, values and approach. You can access the show notes here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1…

We want joyful harmony right? We hate arguing right? We want everyone to agree and move forward together right? Of course we do but the way to get there is probably through creating healthy conflict not avoiding it. Conflict is inevitable, people are wonderfully unique and unpredictable. They come from different perspectives and have differing pers…

Why do many Christians seem so prone to believe in conspiracy theories? In this episode of Leading at a Local Level we explore how we can effectively respond as a Christian leaders to those who spread and believe fake news. Understandably there is a lot of concern around a vaccine that has been produced so rapidly in response to a pandemic but ther…

Ever wonder how you can work all day but get little done? Or why, despite your best intentions? We have all been there. In our latest episode of Leading at a Local Level we explore different ways of organising your tasks and to focus your time so that you can make the best use of your time.

It was with sadness that we heard about the tragic events of the final years of Ravi Zacharias' life where he mistreated a number of women and tried to cover it up. In this episode we reflect on what we can learn about how to leave a legacy that lasts.

Do you handle criticism well as a leader? In this episode we look at how you can learn to handle it better, to use it to your advantage and create a happier, more committed team.

Feedback is vital for improvement in our leadership. Books are great but nothing beats relevant, timely and constructive feedback. Yet so many people are starved of good feedback and struggle to develop. Feedback is a big emotional commitment but as we explore in our latest podcast it’s totally worth the effort if we want to grow ourselves and help…

Everyone in leadership wants to make a difference. Who doesn't? But sometimes we give up too soon. We get discouraged, we get distracted by a new idea or plan or worse we just get bored and move on. One of the most over looked secrets of leadership is being a leader who follows through. The truth is that all great change happen in small steps. Even…

In this episode we explore how powerful the word No can be in helping us find our way to freedom. Tim and John look at when is the right time to say no

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