It Was Never About the Donkeys

Our trials often hold a greater purpose than what we can see and understand. God allows situations into our lives as tools in His...

The Once-a-month Churchgoers Are Becoming More Common

It is fascinating to watch the trends among congregations as they start to regather with COVID-19 beginning to fade. Some of the trends are...

4 Reasons to Make Women’s Ministry a Top Priority In Your Church

Fall is on its way, so that means we’re about to dive in again to the rhythms of going back to school, sports, and...

5 Questions Leaders Should Ask When Watching a Movie

Entertainment… The traditional line of thought with entertainment is that it is a mindless activity. There’s no redeeming value. Maybe you’ve heard other leadership experts...

5 Factors That Do Not Guarantee Effective Leadership

Leadership isn’t based on a formula, and success isn’t guaranteed. Instead, it is artful and involves change, nuance, life circumstances, and the many variables...

Understanding the 7 Phases of a Church’s Life Cycle | the Unstuck Church

Most churches start, grow, thrive, decline and eventually end. But I don’t believe that’s God’s plan for the church. Regardless of uniqueness, every church has...

Five Suggested Guidelines for Pastors and Church Staff on Social Media

It happened yet again.  Church leaders fired a pastor because of his social media postings, primarily on Facebook. He even asked me for my opinion...

Your Church’s Fall 2021 Growth Opportunity (why It’s a Season of Hope)

The coming months represent a potentially unprecedented opportunity to see your church impact more people than ever before. As the country begins to shake off...

Think You Have a Strong Plan to Re-open? Here’s What Most Churches Are Missing

When Covid hit, churches focused on shifting from doing church in buildings to doing church online. For an institution that’s not exactly known for...

Three Critical Questions for Enriching Your Culture Post-covid

As we enter into the “other side” of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are beginning to be able to evaluate the extent to which our...
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10 Ways to Tell You Are Slipping Spiritually

For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it.  (Hebrews...

12 Things That Tempt Men to Peruse Porn

As I’ve researched the issues caused by porn, I am shocked not just at its moral consequences, but at its social costs, damage to marriages,...

Course Corrections to Church Growth – by Jason Swann

We took over a 36-year-old church rebounding from the moral failure of their Senior Pastor on the other side of COVID. We came in...