Phil Cooke: What Every Church Leader Needs to Know For the Coming Year
Hopefully we’re moving forward, and as we consider the next year or more, here’s two critical points pastors and church leaders need to know for the coming year
How to Know If Your Leadership Is Abusive
Ministry isn’t easy. Firm leadership and visionary leadership are necessary at times, hard decisions need to be taken and church discipline needs to be exercised, but there can be an overall tone, or an underlying current to a man’s ministry that is far from helpful.
Telling Right From Wrong Can Lead Us To God
Where did we get the ability to tell right from wrong? It’s a big problem that evolution has no way of explaining human morality.
6 Reasons People Do Not Visit Your Church [Updated for 2020]
Your church wants to reach people, spread the Gospel, and grow. Why is it that new people aren’t showing up to your church like you hope and pray? Here are reasons people do not visit your church. Are any true of your church?
6 Simple Ways to Love Your Neighbors This Holiday Season
Fresh ideas to strengthen and liven up your community.
How to Be Transparent in Ministry (and Why It Matters So Much)
Real transparency between fellow sisters (and brothers) in Christ is much deeper and much more difficult than what we commonly practice. Being transparent in ministry is painful, embarrassing, humbling work, for the teller as well as for the hearer.
8 Reasons Why People Aren’t Coming Back from a Secret Shopper
Why do people decide not to come back to church? Whether I’m working with a church plant of 60 people or a megachurch of over 15,000, some things are universally important.
5 Radical Ideas for Missional Living
So many of us start out in our 20s full of dreams and idealism, and then reality hits.
How the Spirit Ignites Our Supplication
The Lord wants us to be controlled and empowered by the supernatural reality of His Holy Spirit rather than by human strategies and intellectual prowess.
7 Summer Outreach Ideas
Summer is a time when things aren’t so chaotic and people are a little less tense.
How to Experience a Breakthrough in Your Church’s Growth
How do we experience a breakthrough in church growth? There are plenty of answers in terms of systems and methodologies, models and approaches. But before we go about the reshaping of the structure or ministry of a church, we first need to experience a change in our mindset.
8 Easy Ways to Be Missional
"Don’t make the mistake of making 'missional' another thing to add to your schedule. Instead, make your existing schedule missional."
How NOT to Waste This Opportunity: The Greeting
"When you welcome people to your church, do you still behave like it’s 1999?"
How to Make a Real Impact in the Lives of Others
Serve in any way you can, wherever there’s a need, big or small.
20 Ways to Cultivate Resonance in Your Connections and Relationships
The more our society "advances," the less connected we feel. Let's change that.
10 Ways We Get in the Way of God Building His Church
When things don’t go well at church, is it possible that we are getting in God’s way?
8 Ways to Start the New Year Right
The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to rest, rejoice and renew.
How to Live in a World That’s Shaking, Cracking and Crumbling
Let us practice thankfulness, seek His grace and cultivate a healthy fear of God. That’s a recipe for joy!
4 Steps to Loving the People at Church Who Drive You Crazy
Loving others is a way we can imitate God.
5 Keys to Intimacy With God and Others
We discover intimacy only when we make space for it.
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