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  • Ministry Problems Can Produce Ministry Leaders

    by Tim Elmore | April 4, 2013

    In the past I have blogged about the idea that good things can come from bad situations, when those situations force us to do something good we normally wouldn’t do.

  • An Architect’s Secret Weapons: Environmental Design

    by Jody Forehand | June 1, 2013

    Do you know what environmental design is? If you’re not in the “industry” you may have never heard that term, but if you’re a living, breathing American and aren’t living under a rock, then you experience it everyday when you go out in public.

  • How Churches Can Improve the Development and Training of Leaders

    by Trevin Wax | January 11, 2014

    Today, I’m excited to welcome Barnabas Piper.

  • Pastoring Your Cul-de-Sac: Collaborative Living

    by VRcurator | March 31, 2020

    Author Reggie McNeal invites us to get off our ass (biblically speaking) with a focus on the Parable of the Good Samaritan: 25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus.

  • Six Reasons Why Most Church Strategic Planning is a Waste of Time

    by Will Mancini | March 19, 2015

     Have you ever personally experienced a time-waster planning retreat? The planning may be called lots of things like: long range planning vision planning visioning weekend goal-setting strategic operations In addition to the variety of names, the planning may be spawned for numerous reasons like facility planning, attendance decline, website design, or capital campaign initiatives to name a few.

  • The Missional Church

    by Tim Keller | August 23, 2013

    The rapid decline of Christendom since the end of WWII has instituted an even greater need for “missional” churches to engage the surrounding community and retell the culture’s stories through the context of the gospel.

  • Pastor Geoff Surratt on 4 Lessons of Healthy Ministry

    by Geoff Surratt | May 14, 2014

    My heart broke recently as I watched pastor Ron Carpenter pour out his heart in his weekend message to his congregation.

  • The Pastor’s Church Finance Checklist

    by Thom Rainer | July 30, 2015

    A consistent theme I have seen in many churches is in the area of church finances.

  • 3 Destructive Assumptions Made by Pastor Search Teams

    by Bryan Rose | August 14, 2015

    Recently, I heard of yet another downtown “First” church repeating the painful cycle of pastoral transition just a few years after replacing their long-tenured senior leader.

  • Volunteer Culture: Debunking the Myth that Volunteering Takes More Time – Part 2

    by Mark Waltz | September 17, 2012

    In our local churches we sometimes operate in a fantasy land, ignoring the reality that our people are living outside the four walls of the church.

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