Healthy Pastors Leading Health Churches
A football player's head is not in the game and he's just going through the motion. The narrator says he is phoning it in. The stage actor has said those lines precisely 568 times before audiences and an untold number in rehearsal and in front of his bathroom mirror. He has to really work at his craft, lest he "phone it in." The … [Read more...]
Leaders can harm or heal. Whether you’re a pastor, parent, coach, or CEO, creating organizational cultures where people thrive, rather than simply survive, is our calling. Here are four ways to create a thriving organizational culture: 1. Have a compelling, clear, and challenging vision. God has deposited within the human spirit … [Read more...]
While I was in grad school, I worked in a coffee shop. I often enjoyed an expired pastry and a hot cup of coffee as my meal. Go ahead…judge me. Working outside of the confines of seminary kept me grounded, though.The ivory towers from which I peered onto the ground below came crashing down in the middle of a real-life conversation with … [Read more...]
Remember the old V-8 commercials where someone who wasn’t taking in a balanced diet would be leaning to one side? That’s what I think of as I read the thoughts and opinions of various church leaders about “what the church should be all about.” It typically sounds something like one of the following… Jesus was a … [Read more...]
Quick tell me your plan for the offering this weekend. If you are like most church leaders you have not given the offering a thought. About the only time church leaders think about the offering is after it has been taken up and we are disappointed with the results. Giving as a percentage of Americans incomes to the church has … [Read more...]
Pastor Rick shared these practical reasons during his weekly webcast for pastors involved in 40 Days in the Word. You can hear the whole message at http://40daysintheword.com/webcast/. In order to keep growing, you have to have a biblical statement, a biblical strategy, and a biblical structure. Every building has a structure. … [Read more...]
It’s a privilege to be able to come and worship God through singing and it’s amazing to hear the word of God presented in a relevant way each week. But the most important part of a worship service, as we give ourselves to God, is when we respond to the worship and do something with what we have heard. That’s why I believe the … [Read more...]
How do you know its time for a change? Is that unsettled feeling too many hot peppers in your chili or is God giving you a nudge? Figuring out the right timing for a change is a little like learning to set the hook when fishing (something I never mastered); timing is everything. Having made several major changes over the last couple of … [Read more...]
The best pastors can’t get enough of people, concepts, ideas, theology. They want to know how things work, what makes things tick, how to take things apart, what happens inside, where things are going, and why things are the way they are. Many times pastors wonder why their church or ministry is in a rut, and many times they fail to … [Read more...]
Blogging is such a weird word. We never used it until people started keeping “logs” on the “web” of their life called “weblog” and for some reason, we dropped the “we” and were left with the art of blogging. And in a sense, it has changed everything. How? Because now, everyone is a publisher. Every business, every … [Read more...]
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