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5 Growth Engines for Church Finances

Casey Graham encourages pastors to embrace simple practices to secure financial stability.

Head Toward Your Treasure

Randy Alcorn suggests we need a paradigm shift in order to understand true reward.

Can Your Preaching Hit a Home Run Every Sunday?

Preaching will always be effective if it does these four things

More and More Churches Offer Online Giving

As consumers in the U.S. shift increasingly to online banking and bill payment, their electronic financial habits are spilling over into the church.

Evangelical Leaders Say Tithe Isn't Required

New survey results show that most evangelical leaders do not believe the Bible mandates the tithe.

What Guys Think About Modesty

C.J. Mahaney shares a series of powerful letters about modesty in the church today.

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...

Sean Feucht, Eric Metaxas, and Russell Johnson Set To Lead ‘United...

On Thursday (April 25), political activist Sean Feucht will lead a “United for Israel March” at Columbia University alongside author Eric Metaxas and Pastor Russell Johnson of The Pursuit Church in Seattle, Washington.

Steve Robinson: How To Create a Culture of Service in Your...

Steve Robinson joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can foster a culture of serving in their churches, raise up new leaders, and help people discover their giftings.

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