Honestly… they get more accomplished in this meeting that some church’s do in their staff meetings. OK, perhaps that was a bit harsh:

I’d add this guy to our worship team in a heartbeat.  Seriously.  Brings new meaning to Colossians 3:23!

Reason #231:  This lady. or Reason #342:  This lady, showing us the boldness of God:

These quotes were taken either from Joel Osteen’s blockbuster bestseller “Your Best Life Now” (and the accompanying study guide) or Marcia Z. Nelson’s insightful analysis of Oprah’s philosophy in her book, “The Gospel According to Oprah.”  See if you can guess if the pastor of the largest church in the US or America’s favorite guru uttered a particular quote. 1.  The first step to living at your full potential is to enlarge your vision. 2.  If you develop a vision of victory, success, health, abundance, joy, peace and happiness, nothing on earth will...

Mark Brooks writes: If you have not established a culture of generosity at your church you will never raise significant dollars! If you cannot raise significant dollars you will be hampered in terms of the amount of ministry and missions your church accomplishes. If you don’t have a solid base of missions and ministry you are dying as a church. If you are dying as a church you are not fulfilling God’s call to ministry. From 1968 to 2010 the amount of money Americans gave to the church of their incomes fell from 3.11% to 2.4%. That represents BILLIONS of dollars a year lost for Kingdom purposes. One...

Introverts vs. extroverts. Does your church leadership team have both? Maybe you need to? Watch this: HT:  Churchm.ag

Christianity Today recently asked more than 1800 church leaders how much cash reserves they keep on hand.  Here are the results:   How does your church match up? Read more here… Todd

As part of the Beyond Digital Initiative launching this year, Leadership Network is hosting the Code for the Kingdom hackathon series at some of the most prolific tech development centers of our country to discover new tools and strategies to address the challenges confronting our society, our churches, and our spiritual lives.  Our goal is to bring together some of the top coders and developers in the country to collaborate on designing tech solutions to real life Kingdom challenges.  The first event, hosted in partnership with Carpenter’s Lab and Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, is...

Well, that’s the title of Steven Arterburn’s newest book:  ”The Seven Minute Marriage Solution. I like Arterburn.  He usually writes solid stuff. But what’ interesting to me is that, along with the book (remember, the title is the SEVEN MINUTE marriage solution), they are also putting out a 30 day challenge. So… evidently, it will take me MORE than seven minutes to find the solution to my marriage? I did the math… and if the seven minute solution is prolonged over 30 days… it would only take me about 15 seconds a day! That’s spectacular! Actually,...

I can’t tell you how relieved I am. So much hoopla over the past week about Mark Driscoll’s comments at Catalyst about SUVs and the environment. I wasn’t there. But I knew he was joking. And I knew he was going to be in trouble. Because so many people are looking for villans today… someone to demonize… someone to shoot at. Let’s take a sound byte from someone, pull it from it’s contextual setting, then make a big deal So, Mark clarified: For the record, I really like this planet. God did a good job making this planet. We should take good care of this planet...