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....
10 Part Recipe for a Church Database People Would Actually Use
Quality management of the information about the people that attend your church is mission critical. Loss data on someone is a loss relationship. Mismanagement in this area ends up damaging trust with your people. One of the ways we serve our people is by handling their information with great care. I'm...
Useful Tool to Add Cheap, Quick & Quality Creative Elements To This Weekend’s Service
Sunday comes every seven days. It's relentless! Every week we have to find ways to communicate the message of Jesus in a fresh and relevant way. Every seven days we have to find a new way to move people into community. Every weekend we have to leverage the time and talent...
Boost Your Productivity by Only Handling Information Once
Looking for more? Other unSeminary Posts on Personal Productivity Robert Pozen writes more about O.H.I.O. in his book...