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...]
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...]
A cheap shot in sports is when you catch your opponent off guard and give him an illegal hit that hurts him badly. The referee usually flags you for it and the crowd boos. Even your own fans are embarrassed that you would stoop to such. Preachers do it all the time. Not all preachers, but some of us make a practice of finding a weak … [Read more...]
Tears were streaming down his face as he silently wept: “I can see it so clearly… I just haven’t had the ability to put it into words… which makes people think I don’t know where we are going.” Clarity is powerful. One of my most favorite things to do through my work with Church Simple is to help church leaders clearly … [Read more...]
Our Creator designed us to be creative. And out of our inborn creativity come forth plenty of good ideas, but an idea is only as valuable as its successful implementation. In other words, brainstorming is good, but completing ideas is even better. Charles Lee, the founder of the Ideation Consultancy and many other brilliant ideas, helps … [Read more...]
Between Dallas and Ft. Worth, TX sits First Baptist Church of Coppell, where a long-time standing building and congregation wanted to modernize the inside of their sanctuary to stay in tune with the local community. After seeing a demo and realizing the cost-benefits, the church implemented an environmental projection system, … [Read more...]
Nearly fifty years ago Marshall McLuhan’s book Understanding Media coined the phrase “the medium is the message.” In the five decades since we have been struggling to fully come to grips with all the ramifications of different forms of media and how it is used. Adding to the complexity is the speed at which media is changing, … [Read more...]
Yesterday, I compiled a list of 50 things you should never tell your child. Ever. But that’s only half of the story. While there are plenty of things you should not say to your child, there are also plenty of things you should tell them on a habitual basis. I’d be remiss to leave out that part of the story. Most of these are … [Read more...]
One of the most frequently-asked questions I get from the churches and ministries we work with, “Do you have a social media policy example we could look at?” There’s always a few laying around in Evernote, but I never took the time to compile them all into one spot. Until now. Below is a dynamic list of all the social media … [Read more...]
Why should a pastor consider using the online YouVersion LIVE event software to provide his or her sermon notes on mobile devices? After all, as the pastor you already have more on your plate than you can handle. Especially if you are like me and pastor a new or small congregation, you wear a lot of hats. Why add one more? After … [Read more...]
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