"By age 20, children will have spent 20,000 hours online — the same amount of time a professional piano player would have spent practicing…" - Dr. Urs Gasser (co-author of Born Digital) Students graduating from high school this year are at the leading edge of the digital native generation. Information technology...

Today's Guest Blogger is my friend Roscoe Lilly. Roscoe is the lead pastor at NorthStar Church in Albany, NY.  I love talking with leaders reaching people in tough communities and as you will read in this post Albany has been acknowledges as possibly the toughest place in the country to reach people...

When I first encountered Facebook it was when I was at a speaking event on a University campus that had access to up-start social network trying to take on MySpace. The student leaders we met with for lunch we're talking about this amazing new tool for connecting with each other....

Volunteer teams fuel churches. Imagine what would happen this coming weekend if your entire team didn't show up. Church would really stink. People gravitate toward where they feel valued. If you aren't taking the time to show and tell your volunteers that you value the contributions they make to the...

We've all had "one of those Sundays" when nothing seems to go right. The sound system was giving you all kinds of trouble. Videos were being fired at the wrong time. Team members didn't know their music. Feedback. Frustration. Feelings hurt. It was far from the kind of experience that you want...

A part of our role as church leaders is to be students of the culture we find ourselves in. Rather than just swimming along and doing things like we've always done ... we need to respond to the current changes in the culture around us. Here are three facts of...

What would you do if there was a shooting at the theater that you rent for your church on a Saturday evening? What if it was the night before Easter? Today we have a guest post from Tim Day, the senior pastor of The Meeting House in Toronto. The Meeting...

Rather than seeing "announcements" as a distraction from the reason we gather together as a church I think they can be critically important in the life of a community. These times can be a window in the heart of a church for first time guests as they get a sense...

Today it's my honor to have Shane Duffey guest posting here at unSeminary. Shane is a part of the directional leadership team at NewSpring Church in South Carolina. This is one of the most innovative churches in the country and a big part of that innovation comes from Shane and his leadership....

In January, I had the privilege of spending the day with the team from The Rocket Company.  They exist to provide practical how-to training for pastors and church leaders. This spring they are out doing themselves (again!) with a free online Preaching Conference on May 1st from 12pm-4pm (EDT). They've pulled in...