Why Successful Ministry Leaders Are Rarely Challenged
Due to past successes, supporters often give leaders a free pass for any current suspicious direction. Allowing past successes to overlook present mistakes will lead to future calamities. …
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Leading Your Church Through the Rest of 2020
2020 has been challenging, but we still have a ways to go. Instead of losing a critical opportunity by pacing through another intermediate stage as a church, what if you created a strategy for the next three months of which your entire church could get behind?…
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Lead Like Jesus (7 Essential Characteristics)
Are you a leader? Have you always wanted to be a leader? If so, you should learn from the greatest leader this world ever witnessed. Here are 7 essential leadership characteristics from the life of Jesus.…
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The New Church Normal
Now that we have made it through the first half of 2020, people are constantly asking - when will we get back to normal? I hate to break it to you, but I don’t think we are going to return to it, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing for your life, family, or church. …
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Think Church Rebuild – Not Church Restart
All church leaders have been imagining what it will be like when we restart and everything returns to normal. That isn't happening. We need to think about a church rebuild – not a church restart.…
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Realistic Expectations for Church Regatherings
In the weeks to come, many churches who practiced social distancing during the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic will begin to regather. Regardless…
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Quarantine Recap
Look back over the last 8 Sundays, and look forward to this coming Sunday. Won’t forget, can’t regret what I did for love.…
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Creative Quarantine Ideas for Your Church (That Actually Work)
I would have pulled out my notebook from seminary on how to lead a church through an international pandemic, but, like everyone else,…
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Ministry Has Times to Plant and to Pluck
King Solomon wrote that life is full of differing seasons. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to…
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Have We Idolized Easter?
God often uses unexpected situations to teach us needed truths. As the world continues to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of the COVID-19…
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If Nothing Is Missing in Your Online Worship
Our church has been streaming services for years. We make it available for those who are homebound or traveling. We have a pretty…
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Leading a Church Financially Through a National Crisis
As we all navigate through challenging and changing scenarios predicated by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are sure of one thing: we really aren’t…
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