Church Comorbidities
Comorbidities. Preexisting conditions. These words rank up there with unprecedented in a competition for word of year in 2020. Prior […]
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Church Growth
5 Steps To A Healthier Church
Healthy churches aren’t unicorns. Healthy churches exist, and you can be a part of one. Maybe you are part of
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A Healthy Church: Putting the Pieces Together
Is your church healthy? Does it have a foundation that can lead to growth and faithfulness? Are there healthy practices and commitments within your church that interact with other practices and commitments to lead to organizational health and faithfulness? These five components are essential for a healthy church:
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An Inconvenient Southern Baptist Truth: Discipleship Matters
Discipleship is hard and it is time-consuming. The results of discipleship are often discovered over years, not weeks and months, but discipleship is not an option for followers of Jesus, it is an expectation. It is the Great Commission. We have to speak up for intentional discipleship and create pathways for disciples to grow. We have to make discipleship an expectation of attenders and a part of the core DNA of our churches. We have to speak out against the idols in our culture that keep us from discipling and being discipled and we have to stand on the solid truths of God’s Word, even when it isn’t popular.
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Surviving Your Building Project
The common wisdom is that the tenure for most pastors following a building campaign is eighteen months. For that reason,
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Face Reality: You Are The Leader
The most important task of any pastor is to clearly and carefully communicate the Word of God with his people
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8 Keys to Effective Event Evangelism
It is October, which means many churches will be hosting fall carnivals. Most churches hope that these carnivals will result
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Be Critical
There are good ways to be critical and bad ways to be critical. Critical condition in the hospital is bad,
Christianity and Masculinity
I’ve long been an advocate for emphasizing masculinity within the church and all of Christianity. If we are not careful,
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Starbucks Closed Their Doors and So Should We
On Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Starbucks closed all of its American stores at 5:30 PM so that employees nationwide could
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Training or Developing?
As I was researching some leadership development options for use among our staff, I came across a Forbes article from
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Consider One Another
In Hebrews 10:24, we are urged to “consider one another.” Preaching this passage almost 20 years ago, John Piper had
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