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Archive for April, 2008

I know many of you enjoying visiting this beautiful, pristine site (I hope you sense my sarcasm!), but just wanted to make you aware of a couple other options you have for reading my blog posts. Just to the right of this post (RIGHT -> ) there’s an area titled “Subscriptions”. In this area you [...]

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I have discovered something interesting about leadership. As you lead others there is the human tendency to vear from this path I know is right. This path allows me to gain favor with others. It opens doors of influence. It even allows me the opportunity to fail occasionally but continue leading. This path is the [...]

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Only 7 more days until my much anticipated trip to the Exponential Church Planting Conference. The cool thing about going to this conference is I was given the ticket for free! It’s going to be a great opportunity to hear some amazing speakers and to learn how we can continue to improve our church planting [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve shared a creative idea for Manic Monday, but here we go. For those of you that pastor or are a part of a reproducing church this is for you! Starting next month we are launching a couple new small groups – they are called Neighborhood Groups. These groups are [...]

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My last post dealt with the process of interviewing for a position. This post will deal with the process of interviewing potential candidates for a ministry opportunity at your church. I’m not going to get into when to hire – that’s for another day – but hopefully these simple tips will help you find the [...]

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One of the responsibilities with my job is to help find staff for openings at any of our church plants and partnership churches. In that role, I have interviewed a number of candidates for different openings and over the next couple posts I am going to share some tips for both the interviewer and the [...]

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My Alma mater, Central Bible College, just did a much needed overhaul of their website.  Check it out – they did a really good job with it!  I loved my time at CBC and am so proud to be a graduate of that school. It’s great to see it well represented on the web!

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Scott Magdalein, of Church Marketing Sucks (that’s really their name!), is proposing a pretty amazing service for church leaders.  He is offering to help pastors and church leaders create a WordPress blog for use in their ministry…for FREE!  Now it is only for those that will be using it for ministry purposes, but you can [...]

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I was reading in my One Year Bible this morning and was reminded of the importance of hard work in ministry by the verse below.  There’s a quote I love that goes along the same lines.  It says, “Pray like everything depends on God.  Work like everything depends on you.” I would challenge you, pastor, [...]

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It’s a Sad Day

Yesterday I received my final issue of CCM Magazine. It’s been my source of Christian Music news for more than half of my life. They recently announced they will no longer print the magazine but only make it available online. For many of you that may not be a big deal, but this magazine has [...]

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