Break Your Attendance Record This Easter!
How would you like to break your largest record of attendance for your church? What would it be like to preach to a packed house, or to have dozens of new visitors enter your church for the first time? These are all viable questions to ponder, because there is a day built in to our calendar year which, if maximized, can result in record-breaking…
Read Full Article | CommentsThe Truths and Myths of Ordination
Every minister will forever remember the day they were ordained through the local church; it is a life-giving experience for both the ministry and the minister. Yet many ministers today do not know that their ordination may likely not hold any legal water if it were challenged by government. Ordination means to be set apart, to be called When…
Read Full Article | CommentsDeveloping a Culture of Honor
What Is Honor? Honor means “to hold in high esteem, to regard with great respect, to revere”. When it comes to being a follower of Christ, honor is a fact and way of life. Honor is a lifestyle of stopping to embrace the people and places that surround your life. Yet, so often in ministry, honor sometimes seems elusive. How…
Read Full Article | CommentsThe Pastor's Blindside
The Joy of the Beginning After being on staff at a mega-church for several years, the Lord laid it on my heart to move to another state and plant a new church. This was a time of incredible blessing and dreaming. God raised up a small band of people who shared a vision for a multi-cultural, life-giving church in one of the most visited cities in our…
Read Full Article | CommentsDo You Have The Right Voices Around You? - Part 2
(THIS IS PART 2 IN A SERIES. TO SEE PART ONE - CLICK HERE) As we said last time, Pastoring is hard work! And no one can do it alone! To be successful in ministry, there are going to have to be more voices involved in your life then just yours. In our last blog post, we talked about how critical it is to have the right board of directors. It is your…
Read Full Article | CommentsDo You Have The Right Voices Around You? - Part 1
Here’s a Fact: Pastoring is hard work!I have never met another person who entered into pastoral ministry because it was easy. Men and women of God pastor, lead, and shepherd because the Lord has drawn them to it, and the pull is unavoidable. And because the Lord has called them and marked them in such a way, pastors head straight for the fight…
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