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.
Many of my clients, after a lot of hard work, finally experience the dramatic success they always dreamed of. Some accomplish more than they even hoped for. But instead of feeling excited, they feel overwhelmed.
While we are entering a new era for churches in the United States and beyond, I see it as a new era of opportunity rather than problems.
Many believe that life fits into one of two compartments. Either what I am doing is spiritual or my work is normal, common, everyday and thus spiritually unimportant.
So, what do you do if you want things to change and pretty much no one else does?
Stop and think about this. There are so many jobs and so many people—does God value some jobs more than others?
A key part of Christian leadership is managing our finances in a way that honors God. But God calls us to more than just sound money management, says Mike Hatch.
I'm 81 years old, and I’m probably more joyful than ever. I laugh more and enjoy life more than ever.
Many church leaders have a vision regarding the future impact of a church (e.g. innovation, unity, impact, reach, etc.). But too often, slowly at first almost unperceivably, these healthy churches began a slow but steady decline.
It’s said, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This observation can apply to business as well.
The multisite strategy is ingrained in the American church culture. While the majority of churches will never use a multisite strategy, they are no longer perceived as aberrations and outliers.





















