8 Tips on How to Access Free Advice from Any Expert or Mentor
The best people to learn from our often the most busy. How do you access great mentors and expensive experts to get free advice? Here are 8 tips. [...]
5 Crucial Social Media Cautions for Pastors
On Tuesday this week, Mark DeMoss addressed a group of fifty senior pastors on the topic of social media. As a well known Christian public relations guy, I expected a list of pros and cons. But Mark [...]
How Great Pastors Learn “Not to Care”
Great pastors care about a lot of things and a lot of people. But with the non-stop opportunity to minister to peoples' never ending needs, every pastor must eventually face a crazy question: "Is it [...]
5 Reasons Why Disciples Need Ministry Tools More than Sermons
The discipleship results of your ministry are not defined by content of your preaching alone. One significant factor that impacts disciple-making is tool-making. Unfortunately, you [...]
Only 4 Types of Pastors Excel at Vision - Are You One of Them?
I was having a conversation with Bryan Rose on the Auxano team recently. We broached the topic of "pastors who get it." That is, we discussed the kinds of pastors who really press through the [...]
7 Practices to Make (Much) Better Team Decisions
Most church teams enjoy hanging out together. The weekly rhythm of doing church brings staff and volunteers together across a broad span of activities– the laughing and praying of our leading and [...]
