January is an amazing time year to see your church GROW! In fact, for many prevailing churches, it's the biggest growth period in the year. However, this is a bit of a problem because it comes right after Christmas which for a lot of churches is incredibly busy! It's so important that your...

Is it safe to talk about this yet? It's been 3 weeks since Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in one of the most hotly contested elections in modern history. Political scientists and historians will talk about this election for years to come ... but what about church leaders? What difference does...

Hey, everybody, and welcome to this week’s unSeminary podcast. I’ve been excited about having our guest on today, Katie Allred from Brentwood Baptist in Tennessee. Katie is the web content manager at Brentwood and is charge of web, email, and social media. Brentwood is an innovative contemporary church right on the...

Healthy things grow and multiply. It's a fact in the natural world but it's also a fact when it comes to churches. Many church leaders want their churches to grow but they feel stuck. In fact, your church may have plateaued or be in decline while you seek to understand what...

The most robust people-connecting organization in the world is Facebook. This online tool is doing more to develop community and relationships than anything else in human history. Stop and consider how well it connects people: Facebook's population is almost 4 times greater than the USA's. The population of the United...

You know that people come to your church because friends invite them. But what are you doing to ensure people invite their friends? It's a simple fact that the vast majority of the people who check out your church come because a trusted friend invited them. We all know this fact...

Carey Nieuwhof is a leader you need to follow and I count him as a friend. He is kicking off a brand new podcast, The Canadian Church Leader’s Podcast, and I’m honored to have him guest post here today at unSeminary. The Top 5 Canadian Church Myths It’s Time to Bust...

American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay called “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” to the editor of The Journal of Paris in 1784. In the essay, he suggested, although jokingly, that Parisians could economize candle usage by getting people out of bed earlier in...

The Walt Disney Company continues to be an organization that churches should learn from. Obviously, our "core business" in the local church is totally different but there are many similarities in what we're attempting to do and what Disney does: We're both attempting to keep people engaged with "life span"...

Prevailing churches make a consistent and focused effort to get people out of their weekend services and into some sort of "small group" experience. In fact, it's difficult to find a growing church that doesn't have a strong emphasis on its group culture. Over the years on the unSeminary podcast, we've...