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Working on a church team for few years is great, but when you invest your lifetime career effort and energy, it’s a different ball...
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Is it possible that your church isn’t a perfect fit for everyone?
Everyone is welcome, but maybe another church might meet their unique and individual...
The Most Frightening Thing About Preaching
It’s actually several facets of the same thing: I’m speaking for God.
Imagine such a thing.
Lives hang in the balance.
People are making decisions about God based...
Five Essential Sources for Sermon Illustrations and Why They Are Important
Preaching is a grind I welcome every week. Expositing God’s Word is one of the toughest but most rewarding aspects of being a pastor....
How to Create a Culture of Accountability In Your Organization
An organization without accountability is an organization with chaos. We’ve all seen it with an unruly child. The parent doesn’t hold the child accountable...
How Churches Will Grow In 2024 – by Jim Graff
Healthy pastors have healthy churches. Sadly, many pastors are not healthy. They’re disconnected from the friendships they need, the information they need, to succeed....
The Moribund Church
We’ve done extensive research and provided a number of resources on churches that have died. The reason we’ve conducted these “autopsies” on deceased churches...
A Surprising First Step, Pastors, Toward Strengthening Your Evangelism
Over more than forty years of ministry, I’ve learned that not many Christians share their faith on a regular basis. In fact, I know...
More on the Graying of the Church: Find Ways for Your Congregation to Become...
Our team member, Ryan Burge, wrote a fascinating article about which denominations are graying the most. You can see his article in our premier...
4 Ways to Be an Emotionally Supportive Leader
Your team desires a leader who goes beyond the expectations of a leader. They want someone who cares, seeks the emotional well-being of their...
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As a team member, feeling appreciated beyond the paycheck is important. You put a lot of effort into fulfilling your job requirements, finding things...
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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,...
