How’s that weekly staff meeting going for you? Church leadership and staff teams get bogged down by the day-to-day grind, but it doesn’t have to be that way. When vision is established, creating a plan of attack is critical in reaching the big goals, but...
Cool. Calm. Collected. Unemotional. For the longest time, seminaries have tried to churn out pastors who embody those words. The assumption is that if we can simply preach the Bible as it is, exegete a text, people will change. This is all that is required to lead a...
You have an unprecedented opportunity to let 2020 be the most pivotal year for positive change your church has ever seen. The Internet is filled with memes that joke about how 2020 is one long disaster story. In many ways it’s true. We started the year with an...
Privilege hurts the church. It robs us of what God intended for us. It stands in stark contrast to the life of Jesus. In Philippians 2:5-11 we read a powerful example of how Jesus set aside his privilege(s) for you and I. …who though he existed in the form of...
The great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” Despite his valiant efforts, little has changed over these many years. Becoming a multi-ethnic...
