LEADERSHIP RESOURCES
A Voice in the Wilderness
With Jasper Williams Jr.
It was Sunday, August 13, 1950, and Jasper Williams Jr. stepped up to the pulpit to preach his first sermon. Because of his stature, he stood on a stack of Coca-Cola crates s...
Shape the Space
By Ricky Brown
It was the first day of July, and the thermometer read a relentless 98 degrees on my first day of pilot training in South Florida. With a sense of excitement and wonder, I walked throu...
How to Survive the Perfect Storm
By Mattheus van der Steen
Out on the prairie storms can sweep through with a ferocity that sends shudders down your spine. When the storms come raging in, a herd of cows will run from it in terror, d...
The Pursuit of Happiness
By Hope Carpenter
I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who said they wanted to live a mediocre life. Most people I know would say they want to live their best lives, doing what they love and loving wh...
Mastering Deception
By Jason Hanash
One of the most insidious challenges of leadership is in the realm of our thoughts and beliefs: the lies that we believe. Lies are tools of strongholds that infiltrate the minds of le...
Work as Worship
By Lawrence Powell
Human beings are absolutely amazing! Considering the beauty and complexity of anthropological design, Israel’s King David correctly concluded, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made!...
The Gift of Growth
By Abram Gomez
“Mijo, you are going to be somebody when you grow up.”
Those were the words that I heard from my dad on many occasions while growing up in the small town of Itasca, Texas. Known as th...
An AVAIL Conversation: Ron Kenoly reflects on 40-plus years of leadership in praise and worship
AVAIL Media Host Virgil Sierra recently sat down with legendary worship leader Ron Kenoly for the AVAIL Podcast. At 79, Ron is known for popular worship songs such as “Jesus Is Alive,” “My God Is Able...
Unmanageable
By Märt Vähi
Managing God. Sounds strange, doesn’t it?
We as leaders are very familiar with the concept of managing. We manage projects, we manage people, we manage situations, we even manage circum...
Powered Up
By Troy Maxwell
In the first chapter of Acts, we read about the last time the apostles saw Jesus. They didn’t know this was the case until moments later, when Jesus would ascend for the last time and...
