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Ministry Insights for Faith & LeadershipWhile I love consulting and having meaningful conversations, time doesn’t always allow for every question to be answered in person. That’s why I created this space—to share insights and resources I’ve already provided to others, as well as lessons I’ve learned along the way. Like Boaz instructing his servants to leave ‘handfuls on purpose,’ my hope is that these articles will inspire, equip, and encourage ministers as they move their ministries forward.
A Simple Plan for Making Big Changes in a New Church
You've probably heard the old adage, "how does a new pastor move the organ from one side of the platform to the other? One inch at a time!" It sounds funny and even sounds true, but I disagree completely. The sentiment behind the statement is that big changes can...
4 Simple Steps to Life Transformation
Many Christians are never taught about life transformation beyond salvation. Instead, they’re taught to learn information, modify their behavior, and to act and behave according to guidelines for acceptance, community, and ministry promotion. Unfortunately, this leads...
30-Plus Side Income Ideas for Pastors
In today's church leadership reality, most pastors are either the sole employee of the church or are working bi-vocationally to make ends meet. Pastoring is a full-time job, no matter how you look at it, and the reality for most is they need either a second job or a...
Should We Follow the Successful Churches? How Survivor Bias Kills Ministries.
Are you like me? I mean, are you a pack rat when it comes to collecting resources, ideas, and methods of other ministries? I confess I'm an unabashed student of others who seem to be 'getting it done.' After all, why reinvent the wheel, right? It's normal to look at...
5 Tips for Delegating to Volunteers
If you need to relieve yourself of some of your workload and know you need to ask unpaid volunteers to do it, let me share a plan for how to recruit them without feeling guilty about it. Whether you're a paid pastoral leader or unpaid, full-time or bivocational, one...
4 Reasons to use Triads in Discipleship
Have you heard of triads? They're small groups of three people who meet regularly to support, encourage, and keep each other accountable. In Dave Logan's book, "Tribal Leadership", he suggests that triads can be a valuable tool for creating the type of collaborative,...
7 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started
A better understanding of our past helps us ensure a better future. This is just as true for ministry as it is for life. As I reflect on my ministry over the past 30+ years, I realize that there are things I know now that I wish I had known years ago when I started....
7 Secrets to Practicing the Presence of God
So, you've been craving a deeper relationship with Jesus, but seem to keep falling short? Join the masses of ministers who have also struggled with this. The good news is, you don't have to stay in that club. I didn't. If life is divided into two simultaneous realms -...
How Leaders Find Strength in Valleys
Even as ministry leaders, we can find ourselves walking through valleys and wondering if there are any mountain tops ahead for us. Sometimes we can even question whether there’s hope in our valley. It might just be that you are struggling a bit with this right now....
Repairing the Breach – An Appeal To Our Present Generations
Each generation of ministers has its strengths, weaknesses, and persepctive of both themselves and the others they labor with. While we can feel isolated from, and misunderstood by generations other than our own, the very sake of the Gospel rests in the ability for us...
A Practical and Biblical Application of the 5 Fold Ministry
Ephesians 4:11-12 (NKJV) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, Let me explain some problems I see in...
Why You Should Spend More Time Thinking About Schedule Management
Here's the bottom line... if you don't control your schedule, someone else will. For pastors and ministry leaders, schedule management can be difficult for numerous reasons, some of which are: People frequently desire more of your time The workload of a growing...
7 Tips to Resolve Conflict In the Church
One of the greatest tools a minister can carry is the ability to resolve conflicts successfully. Every church has conflicts simply because every church is made of imperfect people. As much as we hate confrontation (well, some of us do!) it's inevitable in ministry...
7 Guest Followup Secrets
Are you interested in guest followup? Guests represent 100% of our church's growth potential, and their chances of staying connected doubles with each visit. But whether or not those guests return for another visit is largely dependent upon how they're cared for...
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