Micah Johnson
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AI and the Church
What artificial intelligence means for the church — and why it can never replace what God put in you
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Lead with Courage: Embrace Christ’s Victory
Let me say something that might sting at first — and then set you free. No matter how gifted you are, how hard you work, how strategic your vision, or how much faith you carry into the room — you are not going to win. Not in the way the world defines winning. Not completely.…
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The Best Gift Ever: An Empty Box (Easter Post)
We live in a world that’s afraid of empty. Empty bank accounts. Empty relationships. Empty purpose. We fill our lives with noise, schedules, and distractions because sitting with emptiness feels too much like loss. But Easter flips that entirely.
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The Last Mile: How A Faithful Past Can Clear Up A Cloudy Future
Every long-distance runner knows about “the wall.” It usually appears somewhere around mile twenty of a marathon — the point where your legs feel like concrete, your lungs burn, and the finish line seems impossibly far. In that moment, everything in your body screams at you to stop. Leadership has its own version of the…
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Silence: A Loud Virtue
“Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.”— Proverbs 17:28 We live in a world that rewards the loudest voice in the room. Platforms are built for the bold. Leadership culture often prizes the decisive, the vocal, the constantly communicating. And yet, some of the…
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The Trust Test: What Kind of Leader Are You?
There is an ever-growing crisis happening in organizations, churches, families, and communities around the world. People are not leaving their jobs, their teams, or their churches simply because of workload or conflict. They are leaving because of something invisible — but far more devastating — broken trust.
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The Leader’s Forgotten Discipline: Why Rest Isn’t Optional
There’s a quiet epidemic among leaders today. Busyness looks like faithfulness. But somewhere along the way, we confused exhaustion with devotion. And Scripture has something to say about that….
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Leading Well When Things Get Hard
There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over a team when things start falling apart. Budgets shrink. Key people leave. The vision that once felt electric now feels distant. And everyone looks to the leader — not necessarily for answers, but for steadiness. What do you do?
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The Sacred Trust: Confidentiality in Leadership
Have You Ever Heard That Secrets Are Lies? Not According to Scripture. Pop culture loves to tell us that secrets are toxic. “Secrets, secrets are no fun. Secrets, secrets hurt someone.” We’ve been trained to believe that transparency means total transparency—that holding anything back is a form of deception. But here’s the thing: the Bible…
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Blind Spots in Leadership
Why the Best Leaders Know They Can’t Lead Alone Here’s an uncomfortable truth: the higher you rise in leadership, the more distorted your view of reality can become. It’s not because you’re less capable. It’s because success creates distance. People filter what they tell you. Bad news gets softened. Dissenting opinions get held back. And…