Churches are often slow-cycle organizations (taking 18 months or more to change). So it is important to look ahead at changes coming to your community and start planning now.
Change in the church is challenging yet necessary. Effective leadership fosters trust, patience, and prayer to navigate transitions.
What makes a healthy church? First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida is a case study.
It's important to feel appreciated beyond a paycheck at work. Here's how leaders can show gratitude to motivate team members.
As a leader, one of the most under-rated instruments in your toolbox is a simple tuning fork.
Volunteering in a church, for example, on a church board or committee, can not only be rewarding but also an important contribution to a church.
Hikes Point Christian Church illustrates several timeless truths about healthy churches. Here are a few of those truths.
Sometimes, successes along the way can distract and get us stuck. Here's how to put God back into your work.
AI is increasingly able to address the commonplace tasks of church leaders. Find four steps to utilize AI and protect the church’s mission.
I believe that there is a way to approach life in the upcoming year that will give you full control over the results and virtually guarantee your success.
Glitter has a way of getting everywhere. This can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it.
Most people checking out your church will view you on social before they visit you in a service. Here are 10 examples from churches doing a good job with their social headers to inspire you.
As a leader, your true test comes in contentious moments when stakes are high and emotions run deep. Building a healthy culture during heated debates requires balancing passion with composure, anchoring arguments in facts over rhetoric, and focusing on issues rather than individuals.
In Jesus's time, there was no concept of equality in the Roman Empire or in Jewish society. So where did Jesus stand on the issue of equality?
Every leader leads two teams; there’s the team you inherited, and there’s the team you built.
Most Christian churches face a shortage of men, with women accounting for 60 percent or more of typical worship attendance. So why do churches seem to go out of their way to alienate men who are divorced?
Everything has its season. And the season of the cool church is, in many ways, coming to an end.
Jesus knew that, in a few minutes, he was going to raise Lazarus from the dead.
Most pastors are already overworked with business as usual, and leading a “turnaround” is the most difficult task of church leaders.
In 1857, Jeremiah Lanphier was a Dutch Reformed layman with a burden for America. He lived at a crucial time in American history.
