Today’s guest post comes to us from Hal Seed, the Founding Pastor of New Song Community Church and church planter. Hal has helped launch a church planting movement that has planted 163,000 churches in the past fifteen years. My favorite comedian these days is Jeff Foxworthy. He’s famous for his long list of “You might be a redneck … ” jokes. … Read More
Leaders are readers: Why you should read 50 books this year
Today’s guest post comes to us from Stephanie Vozza for FastCompany.com. Stephanie is an author and freelance writer who, for more than 20 years, has written about business and productivity. If you want to get ahead in business, sit down and pick up a book. Warren Buffett spends 80% of his day reading. Bill Gates reads for an hour each … Read More
Determining Your Strategic Focus Areas for 2016 – Part 2
With 2016 well underway, I know you’ll be doing hundreds or even thousands of things that will pull at you over the next year. Before you get pulled too far into the wrong priorities, take the time to outline and highlight no more than four specific areas that will get your primary focus this year. In part one of this … Read More
McGavran Monday – The Bridge of Faith
In honor of Dr. Gary McIntosh’s new biography of Donald McGavran, here’s today’s Monday moment: “ … the coming to Christ of Greeks at Antioch was unplanned and depended on the burning faith of some unknown Christians who were organically linked with both Jews and Greeks, thus forming a bridge between the two peoples…. This bond of relationship was the bridge over which … Read More
On Sin – A Saturday Quote
“One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.” -Billy Sunday
Determining Your Strategic Focus Areas for 2016
In 2016, you’ll be doing hundreds of things, maybe even thousands, that will pull at you over the next year. You have your major responsibilities, like preaching and leading your staff, but you’ll also often be called to do the unexpected and wrestle with demands from your family and home life. But we can’t do hundreds of things well, can we? Even Jesus … Read More
Factors in Determining How Long You’ll Live
Today’s guest post comes to us from Alexandra Sifferlin, a writer for TIME. In the following article Alexandra explains the results of a new study published in PLOS Medicine about behaviors that influence lifespan. Researchers have developed a new lifestyle score that determines your risk for death, based on your bad habits. A bit morbid perhaps, but lifestyle behaviors are responsible … Read More
Characteristics Needed for Church Planting and Revitalization
Today’s guest blog comes to us from Ron Edmonson, church leader, planter, and pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky. In addition to his role as pastor, Ron specializes in organizational leadership where he consults with church and ministry leaders. Church planting is a difficult, but rewarding assignment in ministry. So is church revitalization. I’ve been trying to make … Read More
Top Reasons Pastors Quit Ministry
Today’s guest blog comes to us from Cathy Lynn Grossman, senior national correspondent for RNS, where she specializes in stories drawn from research and statistics on religion, spirituality, and social and biomedical ethics. Sometimes a call from God is not enough to keep a pastor in his post. Many evangelical pastors who quit before retirement age found “another calling” either … Read More
McGavran Monday – People Movements
In honor of Dr. Gary McIntosh’s new biography of Donald McGavran, here’s today’s Monday moment: “If there are ways to make disciples of panta ta ethne – all nations – without People Movements, it would be interesting to hear about them.” – Donald McGavran Secure your copy of the book at 40% OFF plus insightful bonuses here. (the above quote … Read More