I had a rare Sunday off a couple weeks ago and decided to drop by a local church that I'd never visited. I'd discovered the church on my annual Christmas Light Tour (where I
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I had a rare Sunday off a couple weeks ago and decided to drop by a local church that I'd never visited. I'd discovered the church on my annual Christmas Light Tour (where I
One of the sad realities about being a church consultant is that too often, churches don't realize they're "in trouble" until it hits their bottom line. Their finances. It seems that no one
Everyone's talking about the weather in the Mid-West. "Worst winter in decades," they say. Which isn't quite true. Worst winter in terms of accumulated snow and ice over the last couple of years,
I've been working in the church planting and church turnaround business since I was twenty-six years old. Let's just say that was awhile ago [my wife just whispered "A LONG while ago."]. One
A family left the church recently because they didn't like one of the changes in worship. The pastor had been confronted by the board chair who demanded the pastor "Go after them and
[su_dropcap style="flat" size="4"]S[/su_dropcap]ure, it's a cliché. No doubt about it. But it doesn't make it any less true. Although the pastor had been there for a couple years, he was just one in