Several years ago, I wrote the following Christmas Eve fantasy account. It was a compilation of some of the Christmas Eve hospitality practices that I’ve experienced in churches I’ve led as well as
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Several years ago, I wrote the following Christmas Eve fantasy account. It was a compilation of some of the Christmas Eve hospitality practices that I’ve experienced in churches I’ve led as well as
I don't tend to do blog posts that say, "Yeah, what he said," but this is a rare exception. Seth Godin writes a business blog that I subscribe to. I started following him when
It seems that the leading cause of flagging small group ministries is the consistent lack of available small group leaders. Depending on the size of the church, we always recommend starting a new
I've been saying this for at least five years and now it appears I've been onto something. The day of the sermon as we know it is dead. Or at least, if you
I'm in the final throes of writing a recommendation report for a congregation I did a consultation with. While making a recommendation for the church to better define their values, I got distracted
This week I’ve been in the midst of a couple discussions about the small church. It started when a colleague cited a statistic he’d read that 94 percent of churches in North America