The good Samerican

To simplify a healthy response based on the account of the Good Samaritan, here are five steps “Good Samericans” can take to love their less-fortunate global neighbors.

8 job qualifications of a worship pastor

Is your church looking to hire a worship pastor? Are you yourself a worship leader looking to grow and improve?

Book Review – The Way of Worship: A Guide to Living and Leading Authentic Worship

The book helps us develop a philosophy of worship, and it guides us as we lead worship teams and congregations into intimacy with our Lord.

Freeing a church from its dock

Why training leaders is biblical

Looking beyond short-term missions, it’s easy to see how training indigenous leaders fulfills a biblical mandate that has long-term impact.

Book review: Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Don’t think for a second that Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success is (Mostly) Wrong, by Eric Barker is a dry or pithy textbook regurgitating formulas of success. Far from it!

First step: Making disciples or leaders?

If you make better disciples, you will have better church leadership.

Creating vision for a new hire

I hope our next hire for pastor includes these character qualities.

11 reasons churches lose momentum and decline

So, what should a leader of a declining church do to assess a ministry’s current reality?