Fear Isn’t Keeping Them Home, It’s Indifference (why Church Attendance Has Plummeted)
As you know, it’s an almost universal phenomenon.
Whether your church barely closed for the pandemic (as in Texas, Florida, or Arizona) or recently reopened...
5 Key Questions About Your Meaningful Purpose In the Kingdom of God.
There is something deeply moving about giving ourselves away for the good of others.
When we give of our time and talent in any way...
Finding Joy In Trials
Some things don’t go together. Take polka dots and stripes: few combinations are more fashion cringe-worthy. On the surface, trials and joy seem to...
5 Enemies of the Soul That Hurt Your Church
It’s easy to get so consumed with solving the problems in the church that we miss slaying the enemies of the church.
Problems come in...
The Calling to Endure
Looking at successful entrepreneurs throughout history can reveal the characteristics needed to start and build something from scratch. I suspect the list of traits...
Though None Go with Me…
God is bringing all of His children to their very own personal Promised Lands—a place where He has assigned us to work and carry...
5 Ways to Build Trust with Your Team
Without trust, a church staff or ministry team simply won’t function at its best. In a recent Harvard Business Review blog the author quoted some dismal statistics...
20 questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Considering Planting a Church
Written by Dr. J. Allen Thompson, President of the International Church Planting Center in Atlanta, and coordinator of multicultural church planting for Mission to...
20 Things Pastors Should Not Love Too Much
“Do not be excessively righteous or overly wise” (Ecclesiastes 7:16).
I read somewhere that this was a favorite verse of Martin Luther, someone who apparently...
Contagious Churches by Jim Graff
Are you praying for insight about how your church can impact the unchurched? I remember thinking – “If our church ever becomes popular among the...