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SBC Leaders: Oh no you don’t!
The president of the 2011 Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference defended a program he’s put together for June 12-13 in Phoenix, Ariz., saying critics who find it outside the convention’s...
View ArticleNo more traffic
If one car out of every 1,000 was networked, we’d be able to put an end to traffic, a recent research report claims. The data would be collected when the cars pass networked relays, which picks up...
View ArticleAs a pastor, should you be more like a lawyer or a researcher?
How would you answer Kimberly Hyatt’s question: No disrespect intended, but should pastors act a little less like lawyers and a little more like researchers? I heard a panel of arts education...
View ArticleDoes your church have a ‘whiner’s room’?
Seth Godin says that most institutions have one. I’d dare to say that most churches do too. The ‘whiner’s room’: When my friend Elly taught in a middle school, he never hung out in the teacher’s room....
View ArticleWHY aren’t you communicating the WHY?
The premise: No one cares what you’re doing until they understand why you’re doing it. As church leaders, it is vitally important to communicate the WHY if we expect/want people to follow our...
View ArticleLeaving your church with Honesty and Grace
It’s the time you dread… when it’s time to leave your church job. Sometimes it’s because you feel God is moving you on, and you’re excited about the next chapter. Other times you leave out of despair,...
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What is your church’s $15,000 mistake?
Has your church ever made a mistake that it seems you can’t recover from? Like this guy did a couple of weeks ago: A couple of weeks ago, Eric Hartsburg accepted a $15,000 payment to have the Romney...
View ArticleThe Filter for the week of November 19, 2012
OK… the Filter is not your average video podcast. In fact, we’d say it’s ‘below average’. No special high profile guests. No format, really. Just a couple of guys (Matt Steen and myself) who love...
View ArticleMonday Gut Check for Pastors
Paul Tripp writes: Let’s be honest, pastors. We are tempted to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think. At times, we chafe against things that we think are beneath our pay grade. We are...
View ArticleToday’s Challenge: Develop your own ‘Undo Send’ button
Lovett H. Weems, Jr. writes: It turns out that five seconds or less is all we need to realize we may have said something we will regret. Unfortunately, when we speak those words, we do not have an...
View ArticleZig Ziglar dies. He was 86.
From The Plano Star: “Where you start is not nearly as important as where you finish.” Those were the words of one of Plano’s most famous residents, Zig Ziglar, the world-renowned motivational speaker...
View ArticleFive red flags when interviewing a potential staff member
Eric Geiger has some great tips on interviewing for your next church staff member position. Eric writes: If you are a leader, you know that having the right players on the team is absolutely essential...
View ArticleDealing with congregational shrinkage
Do you agree or disagree with this statement by Kim Fabricius? How should the church respond to congregational decline, financial deficits, and vocational shrinkage? The answer is obvious: make...
View ArticleChurches find loophole to no permanent Nativities by hosting LIVE Nativities
Dateline Santa Monica. No ‘permanant’ Nativity displays is the new law. So… churches decide that the law really doesn’t apply to non-permanent LIVE Nativity displays. Here’s our take: What do you...
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What will the church look like in 2063?
David Murrow, the director of Church from Men, has some ideas: 1. The midsize congregation will disappear. 2. An explosion of satellite campuses and microchurches 3. A small number of cutting-edge...
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