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5 Things Pastors Want from Their Staff

There are different leadership skills needed when your church attendance is running 50, 500, or 5,000.

Is Your Vision Insulting to God?

In this video Pastor Steven Furtick encourages leaders to believe in God for a larger life vision.

Free eBook: Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards

Sermons from one of America's most important theologians, including "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

Ministry Marriages Built to Last

One of the critical factors in a successful ministry is a healthy marriage, not just a surviving marriage.

Is Your Spouse a Partner in the Gospel?

It's easier than we think to leave our spouse behind as we "do God's work."

The World Doesn’t View The Church As Creative

The June 2011 edition of Fast Company just released their list of the Top 100 Most Creative people.  Sadly, not one Christian church or...

A Weird Approach to Perspective

It’s pretty normal to want life to roll along smoothly. And in those seasons when it doesn’t, we might wonder, “Why can’t things...

Five OverReactions that Kill The Community

Most of us have faced “church-abuse” in one way or another. Perhaps we’ve experienced the abuse of “being judged,” the abuse of being...

Roadside Sabbath

Do you ever pay attention to the highway median when you’re on a long road trip?  The space between a divided road and...

Leadership Book Interview: Irving Hexham on Understanding World Religions

Today I am interviewing Irving Hexham on his new book, Understanding World Religions: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Irving is Professor of Religious Studies at the University...

The Confusion of Wealth

Wealth may be a perfect example of how we tend to put blinders on and ignore the messiness of the Scriptures. For some, the Bible...

Going Second

This post was first featured in August 2010 on ChurchMarketingSucks.com About a year or so ago, I read a quote from popular author and marketing...

Walls or Doors

I’m convinced now more than ever that perspective can change everything. And this is probably nowhere truer than when we’re talking about the struggles...

Does it Dishonor God for Us to Long for Reunion with Loved Ones?

Believers periodically tell me versions of the following: “We shouldn’t be thinking about reunion with loved ones, or the joys of Heaven....

7 Things Forgiveness IS….

I often wonder if the reason we don’t forgive as we should is because we don’t understand the subject well enough. Yesterday I posted 7...

Jesus was Judgmental and So Am I

I have so much to say, but today I just want to drive home a simple point that I think is surprisingly counter-cultural in...

John Piper’s Sermon Preparation Method

John Piper has a very interesting sermon preparation method that reminds us that sermon preparation is not a science, but it is an...

How to Tame the Tongue

Our words have a great deal of power. They have the potential to speak truth and life into another person and they also...

Life is Short

Last summer I was working in the backyard with Hunter (who was 13-years old at the time). He was two feet away from...

Theology through Technology — Paving The Way For Relevance

Media. That one word entails a world of sensations, experiences, visions, apparitions, stuffed email inboxes, exabytes (yeah, that’s a word) of information,...

17 LGBTQ-Affirming Ministers Face Church Investigations for Signing Belief Statement

The investigation by Indiana Ministries — a jurisdiction within the Anderson, Indiana-based Church of God movement — could result in the withdrawal of the ministers’ credentials.

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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