Practical wisdom for pastors and church leaders – lessons lessons learned through decades of leading, failing, changing, and trying again.
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Effective Online Church
How can we be effective when we can’t meet in a building? We are all in completely uncharted territory, the problems we faced as church…
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In praise of older leaders in plaid shirts
I recently heard a conference speaker lament the fact that the lead team at a majority of the churches she works with are older men…
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Why real men (and women) run away
In almost every village and town in Italy you will find an ancient tower. Some are quite ornate like the bell tower next to the…
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58 Things I’ve Learned in 58 Years
Yesterday marked my 58th solar lap so I thought I’d update my sort of annual list of things I’ve learned so far. This time, however,…
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Beth Moore: Please don’t go home
One night almost ninety years ago two ladies stepped onto an improvised stage in a wheat field in western Oklahoma and began to preach the…
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Critics: You can’t live with them, you can’t shoot them (Can you?)
You can spot them coming from across the lobby. Something happened at church and they are not pleased. It was too hot, too loud, too…
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Stop counting attendance and start counting care
For the past 30 years the primary indicator of health in churches is weekend attendance. We know that “healthy things grow”, so obviously the faster…
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The end of multisite is near (sort of)
Its been almost 20 years since the idea of being one church in multiple locations hit my radar. Churches like Community Christian in Chicago, North…
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Why your church needs to be thinking 100 years down the road
Recently I heard the founder of Patagonia, Yvon Choulnard, describe a very difficult season in the early days of the company when growth outpaced revenue…