Nothing compares to the moment a hearty laugh with a church team immediately shifts into a deeply poignant moment of congregational insight. For one team, this happened in the midst of a common exercise on […]
23 Ways Your Church Website May Be Driving Away First Time Guests
Imagine if it was your first day on staff and you just discovered that your church’s front door was: – hidden from view and hard to find – still decorated from last Christmas – covered […]
14 Reasons Your Church Staff Retreats are Better Offsite
Finding the time and money to pull the staff offsite for an annual vision retreat challenges every leader. The temptation to lay-up and schedule yet another week in the church conference room lulls us into yet another year of […]
7 of the Worst Themes Ever for a Capital Campaign
Everyone knows that fundraising success in a church capital campaign is not dependent on the theme. A vision campaign can succeed apart from its name or visual communication. However, a bad theme will severely limit the effectiveness of visionary […]
15 Quotes for Church Leaders from the book Extreme Ownership
Thirty pages in, the realization hit. Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is not only one of the best leadership books I have ever read, it may the only leadership book I have […]
Vision Is Not…
Vision isn’t a moment on a Sunday – Vision is a movement happening everyday. Vision isn’t a one-time event – Vision is an ongoing eventuality. Vision isn’t a statement on a wall – Vision is a state […]
5 Sure-Fire Ways to Guarantee Repetitive Pastoral Failure
It’s not really how you got lost as much as how you lead back to the right path. Every great leader has experienced failure at some point, well… except one glaring exception. So yeah, you […]
