Often when we hire staff in a church context we are thinking about the potential a candidate has for the future. A part of the way we're wired as church leaders is to see the best in people ... to believe that people will develop and become "better". Although this...

Sending out a weekly email to your team is an effective way to make sure that your people are focused on the same thing going into the weekend. A good weekly email is part logistics reminder part talking points and part motivational propaganda. If you don't currently send out weekly emails...

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....

Today I'm honored to have Jeff Brodie providing a guest post.  Jeff is a leader that you need to get to know. He is the Executive Director at Connexus Community Church, a multi-campus church north of Toronto, and a strategic partner of North Point Ministries. He has been working with...

What if you invested a small amount of time this weekend to make a big improvement in your email game next week? Email is here to stay ... as much as you can't stand it I can guarantee that more email is coming this week. If you find yourself being consistently stressed by email...

Earlier this year as a church we did a 40 Day Bible Challenge where we had over 3,000 people read through the entire New Testament. I think for a lot of people it was the first time they had actually read large pieces of the book they base their faith...

Conference season is upon us! It seems like within this two week period everyone is heading to a church leaders conference of one stripe or another. Are you wishing that you could be getting on a plane and head to one of those experiences? Are there other ways to grow...

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...

We're moving away from Apple laptops for our staff team at our church and moving towards Chromebooks. I know this post might only apply to churches with larger staff teams but I wanted to share some of my learnings as we make this transition, Chromebooks are essentially a web browser wrapped in...

Recently I was at a middle school and saw these bookmarks proudly displayed at the check out. They were no doubt put there to encourage the young people to read more. They are a leveraging the look of the "popular" band AC/DC to help make reading look appealing. The problem...