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And I Totally Get That It's Not an Easy Gig... Okay, first a disclaimer: Many of the churches we work with use a current worship...

How Are You Exercising These in Your Church? In the book Elemental Leaders, we identify 4 critical elements every effective leader must...

Over the years I’ve found myself ruminating on why pastors are often reluctant to engage with outside organizational assessors and...

John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, delivered a stinging indictment several years ago on televangelists and the tax perks of churches...

And Which Can Atrophy the Fastest...? Every church has a handful of core mission-critical behaviors…and they typically center around...

How About a New Way to Measure Healthy Effectiveness? All healthy churches are characterized by four key traits: Integrity, Passion,...

Yeah, I know that’s a wide open question, but the New Testament says a lot about production. Of course, in their agrarian culture they...

Christmas is difficult to ignore...but in surprising ways. Each year it seems the Christmas Wars heat up a few more degrees: churches...

How Much Info Can a Person Retain and Assimilate? Seriously. Full disclaimer: I’m a big proponent of the No-More-Than-30-Minute message....

Are you or your pastor surrounded by a capable team? Why or why not? When we first began developing inventories and tools to measure...

Okay, before we reveal this mind-blowing answer, let me offer a disclaimer: this has nothing to do with the size of your church,...

Over half the pastors in the U.S. find the job overwhelming. Why? For years while I led a church, I’d meet other pastors who would talk...

The 4 Fundamental Factors for Effective Leadership Over the decades, I’ve had some good bosses and some not-so-good bosses. And...

Every Good Message Begins With Thinking About The Questions First Over the last thirty years, I’ve spoken in some capacity—whether...

Are You Future-Thinking? There’s been a lot written about senior pastors’ transition and succession, particularly as Boomers are in the...

Maybe it’s time we leaders reconsider how we think about power. In relationships. In politics. In culture. In organizations. About...

Powerful Things Happen When "Mission" Meets "Messages" In An Intentional Way For pastors, I think it’s smart to have an overview of an...

YOU MAY BE LEADING…AND DON’T EVEN REALIZE IT! Eons ago I played in a little vocal-driven acoustic group consisting of a steel-six-string...