There are many times in my ministry life when I’ve felt completely alone. Consider a journal entry I made many years ago: My extreme busy-ness has often crowded out self-reflection—we’ve worked so hard these last few years that I may have lost sight of my own personal spiritual health. New
Churches have generally avoided legal entanglements for most of my life, but that’s changing. Over the last decade, we’ve seen major religious liberty litigation, ministry and denominational sexual abuse cases, ministry-employee rights disagreements and more. It’s clear that ministry lawsuit risk is increasing, so what are we to do? While
The conventional approach for church fundraising is to finance essential operating expenses with a regular budget and collect special offerings for missions and large capital expenditures. Add to that mix special needs that arise throughout the year and many churches respond with additional love offerings for special causes and situations.
Smithsonian Channel’s “Air Disasters” is must-watch TV in my home. The catastrophic incidents in aviation history are presented with reenactments, survivor interviews and cockpit recordings. But what’s particularly interesting are the insights that show what went wrong and whether or not the crashes could have been prevented. Accidents sometimes occur
There’s inherent tension between leaders and followers in any congregational church. Because effective leaders usually have a strong sense of vision and values for accomplishing the church’s missional objectives, and some members and leaders desire a voice in those same objectives, there’s bound to be healthy push and pull. Victor
Vision is clarified. Strategy is developed. Action plans are implemented. Lives are changed. Needs are met. Growth follows. The pattern repeats. And the end never comes. Or does it? The reality is that growth seasons run in cycles. As sure as there’s a beginning, there’s an end. What kind of
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