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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...

Have you ever noticed that the status updates used by a lot churches in Facebook or on Twitter feel less like an engaging conversation and more like a greasy used car salesman. "New series coming up this weekend!" "Join a Life Group this Spring!" "The Most Amazing Thing is Happening...

I love how three or four times a year we attempt to mobilize our whole church to serve our community. Whether it's through relief work after a major storm or doing an "extreme makeover" of a local soup kitchen in 24 hours ... these have been some the proudest days of my entire...

Google I/O is an annual developer-focused conference held by Google in San Francisco, California. This conference gives us an inside look at where technology and web are headed in the coming years. The technology that is announced at this conference will impact your church. Here is a list of some of the announcements made during...

"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...

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....

It seems like about a dozen churches across the country get all the attention of church leaders when it comes to looking for innovative approaches to ministry. Even though there are over 100,000 churches in the country we all seem fixated on just a few! Today I wanted to highlight...

I'm a fan of churches not owning locations and being portable. I know there is a stigma amongst church leadership types against mobile ministry but I really do think churches that have permanent locations are the ones missing out!  If you are looking at launching a new location for your church here are...

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...