Why HOW You Preach Matters as Much as WHAT You Preach

I think it’s sinful to be unfaithful to Scripture in our preaching, but isn’t it also harmful to misrepresent such a dynamic, living and loving God by communicating to people that his book is boring?

Maximize Team Effectiveness, Part 2: Escape the 9 to 5 Rut

9 to 5 is a practice engrained into our psyche which would have us believe that only during those hours at an office can real work take place.

It’s just not true anymore.

Seven Big Ideas for Social Media Mastery

With these seven questions in mind, you can be confident and methodical as you get your social media ducks in a row and in the right pond.

Welcome to the Vision Room

Read a note from Will Mancini welcoming you to the Vision Room and pointing some key features designed just for you.

Going Old School with Church Communication

Too many church leaders are running too quickly to optimize the latest church communication tools to reach people in their community while they are ignoring “low hanging” fruit with “old school” technologies with proven abilities to do the same.

One Big Communication Thought that Keeps Your Mission In Focus

Don’t settle for the lower purpose of attendance. Strive for the higher purpose of mission engagement. That’s when lives and communities are truly changed.

3 Actions to Eliminate Your Team’s Excuses

When your team is not reproducing leaders, it’s your role to take the lead and help eliminate the excuses. As long as the excuses remain you will never have a culture of leadership development.

The Challenge of Conflict, Part 1: Redeeming It

Is it possible to avoid conflict entirely? In a word, no. We’re too “human” to hope for that.

Two Really Bad Ways to Work on Your Leadership Weakness

Our weaknesses as leaders can crush us if we do either of these things with them.

Three Best Practices for Building People who Invite People

In order for your people to feel comfortable inviting others, you need to make sure you’re delivering on a few basics.

Three Personality Traits You Need for Clear Communication

Three Keys to Avoiding Failure When A Change Must Come

Nothing frustrates great leaders more than watching a project crucial to their church’s growth and missional effectiveness stall prior to completion.

Maximize Team Effectiveness, Part One: Remote Work Starts With Your Culture

Is it time your church considered current remote working options?

4 “SHIPS” that Mark Great Leadership

Four keys for a church that is serving one another and a hurting world in the name of Christ.

The Power of Brevity in Communicating for Change

We say too much. The more you talk, the more your audience seems to disengage. So when you feel they’re not listening, you talk more.

12 Ways to Connect with Your Community

I believe we ought to get back to our roots and become leaders in the field of content marketing, not to combat everything secular, but rather to influence the secular with sacred truth.

These Kinds of Slow Growth are Actually Healthier

Don’t confuse complacency with a slow pace. Some congregations are willing to move forward; it just takes them a little longer.

The Power-Full Life Part 2: Blessed to Be a Blessing

Can we develop a new set of rhythms or habits that foster a missional lifestyle that intrigues others?

These 5 Ideas Help Build Owners of Church Vision Instead of Renters

There exists a stark difference in churches when the people, especially the lay leaders, consider themselves owners of the vision, and not just renters.

Key Learnings from a Massively Multisite Church

As incredible as it’s been to see the multisite movement from the inside, there are some lessons I wished I had known before we started this journey.