We've just come out of a 90-Day Tithe Challenge at my church and it had a profound impact on our financial picture. We were going through a series on Malachi in June and it seemed like a perfect fit with the third part of the series. For those who don't know, a...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Greg Atkinson is an author, pastor, blogger and all around great guy! This is his second appearance on the unSeminary podcast and we're excited to have him today. Today he's talking about what innovation looks like from a biblical perspective and the role it should...

Erin Ricca & Tanja Martin I love the Family Ministry team at my church. They make me proud for a number of reasons ... they're creative, they pursue excellence, they are concerned with partnering with parents, and they take risks. This fall our team put together our first homegrown curriculum...

Today we have a very special guest blogging at unSeminary! Clint Taylor is one of the worship leaders at Liquid Church. He's a sharp thinker and a sensitive soul. He's also a fantastic musician and pastoral leader in our community. I asked him to write about what he's learning as...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Richard Clark is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Christ and Pop Culture.  He lives with his wife in Louisville, KY and has a MA in Theology and the Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. On this episode Richard explores how Church Leaders should interact with...

Recently in the unSeminary Premium private Facebook group, a conversation started about whether email is a predictable driver of attendance at churches. We decided to do a small study on this question last weekend. 81 churches sent emails on Saturday and then measured to see if doing so made any difference...

"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born." -Warren G. Bennis Leadership...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //      Jon Peacock is a church planter and leader that you need to be tracking with. He leads a church in the suburbs of Chicago called Mission Church is focused on reaching 10 communities within reach of their church. Since October of 2011, they've been asking...

Churches that make an impact move people to action. They take people from thinking about the mission to engaging with it. Response cards are a core tool to help churches elicit feedback. Here are some tips for creating response cards that boost responses! Get 'em in their seats! During the service you have a...

Subscribe to the unSeminary Podcast: //    Game Church is a ministry that is attempting to reach out to the gaming "subculture". They do this through active participation in the video game world and through running a digital outreach through a blog and podcast. In this interview, Drew Dixon talks about the...