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- 1. Using Technology to Create Healthy Churches and Healthy Disciples
- Since we live in a digital revolution, technology is changing and working its way into nearly every aspect of our lives. Over the past year, since the COVID-19 pandemic began shutting down our normal in-person ...
- Created on 11 June 2021
- 2. This Could Be Your Biggest Challenge in Crisis Ministry ...
- ... But I am more grateful than she is, I imagine, because I am so capable of getting this wrong. The hardest part for me on visiting a family in crisis is gauging the direction and intensity of their e ...
- Created on 25 January 2021
- 3. 5 Reasons 2021 Will Be Harder—But Better—Than 2020
- As the pandemic hit, the chaos of the spring and summer gave way to an intolerable uncertainty in the fall and winter. Church leaders had to shift from a short-term crisis mindset to a long-term recovery ...
- Created on 30 December 2020
- 4. 6 Scriptural Steps for Navigating a Business Crisis ...
- ... us painful experiences about God and His faithfulness to identify six critical steps for navigating a crisis from which I believe any business leader could benefit from: 1. God is your manager. Everyth ...
- Created on 21 October 2020
- 5. Survey Reveals How COVID-19 Has Impacted Faith
- The Center for Bible Engagement's (CBE) recent survey of frequent church attenders reveals the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on faith. To support pastors and churches navigating this crisis, th ...
- Created on 02 April 2020
- 6. 7 Truths to Hang on to During the COVID-19 Crisis ...
- ... ched them multiple times before. But during times of crisis, it's really important to remember the fundamentals. The Bible emphasizes getting the facts before you take major actions in your life. Here are ...
- Created on 25 March 2020
- 7. Rick Warren: Why Prayer Must Take Priority in a Crisis ...
- Every crisis is a leadership opportunity. As a pastor, you minister to people in crisis all the time. It could be a health, relational or professional crisis. It could even be a crisis born out of a natural ...
- Created on 18 March 2020
- 8. How You Can Help Change a Poverty Mentality in Your Community
- "The biblical definition of poverty is you do not know where your next meal is coming from." —Dr. E. Calvin Beisner There's a burden we all share as working Christians: The poor. We, the body of Christ, ...
- Created on 18 February 2020
- 9. Why the Need for More Church Leaders Never Ends
- ... toilet. The stress can become so heavy that the growth feels more like a crisis than a blessing. Having a leadership crisis is not exclusive to the church (take a look at Congress) and neither is it a ...
- Created on 07 February 2020
- 10. What to Do When You Are Unfairly Criticized as a Pastor
- Everyone who does anything will be criticized. As a rule, the critics are the do-nothings, the nay-sayers and spectators who sit in the grandstand and feed off one another's negativism. The man in the ...
- Created on 06 December 2019
- 11. 10 Ways the Enemy Can Stir Up Trouble in Your Church
- Let me start this post with a clear caveat: Satan will not ultimately win as he attacks God's church. In the meantime, though, the devil strategically attacks us. Consider these ways he seeks to get the ...
- Created on 15 November 2019
- 12. 8 Reasons Pastors Get Fired
- Over the past several years, I've paid more attention to reasons pastors—including some of my acquaintances and former students—have been fired. In some cases, the congregation has been a "knucklehead" ...
- Created on 09 August 2019
- 13. 49 Encouraging Things a Pastor Would Like to Hear
- "Therefore encourage one another" (! Thess. 5:11a, NIV). When we posted "59 things not to say to a pastor," my cousin, Rebecca Kilgore Smith of Jasper, Alabama, suggested we should balance the sheet with ...
- Created on 15 July 2019
- 14. 5 Common Struggles Young Pastors Face
- Several years ago, I spent a couple of hours with a group of young pastors. It was a cross representation of church planters and pastors of established churches. There were healthy churches and unhealthy ...
- Created on 11 July 2019
- 15. How to Keep Your People During a Crisis ...
- ... ber was telling some of us about her apartment ministry in a big Texas city. "When our church went through a crisis," she said, "a lot of people left. But not a single person who was involved in our min ...
- Created on 31 October 2018
- 16. 7 Ways to Keep Your Heart Alive in a Dry Season
- Remember the feeling when you were called into ministry? The dreams and visions of reaching the nations and making a difference in the world? Maybe you were at an altar somewhere, crying your eyes out ...
- Created on 04 May 2018
- 17. 3 Damaging Crises Every Leader Should Know How to Overcome
- If you start losing teeth at 55, it's a crisis. If you start losing them at 5, it's progress. What makes a crisis a crisis depends in part on the context. But there are life crises which irrespective ...
- Created on 25 April 2017
- 18. 12 Reasons Church Staff Conflict May Arise
- My email inbox is full of these stories. Messages to me via social media hit this topic too frequently. There is a lot of church staff conflict out there. To be clear, conflict exists in all relationships. ...
- Created on 20 October 2016
- 19. 5 Ways For a Leader to Respond at the Outset of a Crisis ...
- How do you respond when crisis comes to the team you lead? I love the leadership displayed during a scene in "It's a Wonderful Life" where George Bailey is about to leave for his honeymoon and panic stru ...
- Created on 10 October 2016
- 20. Stamping Out Your Discouragement in Ministry
- Discouragement in ministry is real. When you are down, how do you get back up? It does not matter if plans you had are now unfulfilled, you are surrounded by small-mindedness, people leave your church, ...
- Created on 27 September 2016
