It used to be that Christmas began when Santa Claus passed the reviewing stand in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. It used to be that the first strains of Christmas carols played on the

I had an opportunity to visit a local mega church (about 2,500 AWA*) recently on one of their "special event" Sundays. The service was touted as an "Arts" event and they had four

There's recently been a wave of interest by judicatories in starting Peer Coaching events among their church leaders. With the inevitable failure of the "Let's assign the new kid an experienced pastor to

The other night, I met with a new church plant's core leadership for a planning session. Each member of the leadership core has served the church literally for years and are all excited

I suppose it's out there somewhere, but I've never found it: the church that has more leaders than it knows what to do with. In fact, most churches I visit have a leadership

Take a good look around at your next church board meeting. Listen to the questions and the comments. Look at the faces. More importantly, though, look at the body language. What does it