Quick Tip to Reduce Calendar Chaos! [video]
[vimeo 59369121 w=500 h=281] Looking for more? Do you use Google Calendar? An oldy but a goody....
People don’t read the Bible. What we’re doing to reverse that trend.
Almost a year ago we started talking about doing a "40 Day Bible Challenge" as a leadership team. The big idea was to ask our people to read through the entire New Testament in the two months leading up to Easter 2013. Our goal was to have 3,000 people who...
Are free t-shirts a vain waste of church resources or a strategic communication tool?
A few times every year an invoice passes across my desk for t-shirts and I cringe a little bit. We spend a lot of money every year on t-shirts. We give them out to our first time guests, our volunteer teams, our community outreach participants, people who get baptized, our...
Take the Unplug Challenge! [video]
[vimeo 58875369 w=500 h=281] Looking for more? Not convinced that you need "unplugged time" this week? Interruptions are dragging on your mission....
3 Must Read Books to Shape Your Ministry in 2013
What are you reading right now? I'd love to hear what is challenging you as you lead in your church. Here are the three books I have on the go right now and how they are shaping my thinking and ministry. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting...
Best Practices for Church Learning Trips
By the time a church has packaged its learning into a conference or a "how to" book, their innovative years of ministry are behind them. Over the years I've become more and more partial to spending a weekend visiting lesser-known churches. I've found these weekends far more valuable for learning than...
Are You a Micromanager? [video]
Looking for more? Check our Ron Edmonson's Post This HBR article get's to heart of it:...
Valuable Leadership Lessons from Rural Nicaragua for Our Churches
This week I've had the privilege of traveling to Nicaragua with Living Water International (LWI). We've partnered with them in variety of clean water projects. We were in Nicaragua seeing some project areas that we might end up serving in the coming years. I was humbled again to interact with some of the...
Does worship music need to be whiny soft rock?
I'm afraid I'm not uncomfortable enough with worship music. I don't want to fumble the pass of the church to the next generation. In my early ministry years I was a part of a church in the midst of a "worship war". One side was fired up because they believed that...
Cut your email in half? Try this email productivity tip. [video]
Looking for more? Some more sneaky email reply cheats. A way to make email fun again....