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Free Sermon Series Package: My Secret

"Who are you when no one's looking? What secret are you holding in that nobody will ever know?"

10 Ways to Create a Leadership Culture in Your Church

Empower leaders who will fuel a disciple-making movement.

Need Volunteers? Maybe Your Staff Is Too Big

Are you leaning on the staff to do all the ministry?

Off-the-Grid Leadership

Milan Ford encourages leaders to "build away from the eyes of men."

How I Write a Sermon

Spend the week with Bruce Frank as he starts from nothing and ends with a sermon.

Francis Chan Featured at Huge Easter Outreach

Rock Harbor Church in southern California will try to "make a big deal" out of Easter at the Pacific Amphitheatre this year.

Free Book Chapter: Today We Are Rich

"Are you just hanging in there? Have life’s curveballs thrown you off balance? Do you feel as if your life is going Sideways?"

Highlights from The Elephant Room

Got back yesterday from the Elephant Room, which was an amazing experience. James MacDonald has a great wrap-up , but I wanted to throw...

The 10 Last Words Of A Dying Church

“If you don’t like change, you‘re going to like irrelevance even less.”  Those are the words of General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U.S....

When You Pray: Trust God To Provide

In The Lord’s Prayer, Jesus instructs us to pray “Give us this day our daily bread.”  Of course, that sounds like a simple...

Church Planting Lessons: Relational Networks

This is the second in a series of posts about what I’ve learned about multi-ethnic church planting as we near the one-year anniversary...

Water Flames (The Four Holy Gospels, Part 5)

by Makoto Fujimura I am a “Ground Zero” resident. My loft is three blocks from where the towers used to stand (see my essay “Fallen Towers and...

How to Offer Criticism: Part Two

In an attempt to encourage healthy, honest dialog and fruitful criticism in the Christian community, I am offering five thoughts on how ...

Judges: the Canaanization of Israel

This morning I’m teaching Judges and Ruth in an OT Intro course. Those are perhaps two of the easiest books to teach in...

"No" is an Answer

“Yes” is a much easier answer. We can see the tangible benefits of a positively answered prayer; we can point to that answer...

The Future of Evangelicalism: Your Thoughts

There has been quite a bit of ink spilled recently in the blogosphere about the future of Evangelicalism. My friend Rachel Held Evans wrote a...

Everyone Wins

What’s intuitive to those outside the church is often revolutionary to church leaders. This is true when it comes to marketing. Franchise. Structure. But it...

Without Faith

The conversation began around 11:30pm. And it ended around 4:15am. About a year or so ago, I decided to stay up late and share with...

God Seeking His Own Glory

When we seek our own glory, it means we are proud and arrogant. But does God seek his own glory? And if He...

Leaders Need a Platform

Leaders need a platform from which to lead. That is…a platform from which they can lead.  They have an inner desire to lead people,...

‘The Church Is Called To Salt, Not Sugar,’ Says Pastor John...

John Amanchukwu Sr. serves as the First Assistant to the Senior Pastor and the Youth Pastor at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Andy Bannister: How Pastors and Churches Can Stop Living as ‘Undercover...

Dr. Andy Bannister joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how pastors and church members can share their faith boldly, strategically, and without fear.

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