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What Has Changed the Most in Preaching the Last 20 Years?
The Problem of Ageism and Church Staff Near Retirement
Armed Church Security Teams: Good Idea or Bad Idea?
Five Relatively Recent Theological Controversies That Have Faded
Why Don't Churches Sing Old-School Hymns Anymore?
An Interview with Chris Brauns on “The Way of Repentance”
Should a Church Accept a Tithe from a Lottery Winner?
The Burge Report: Why Immigration Won't Reverse America's Secular Drift
The Top Preaching Distractions (What Stops Pastors Mid-Sentence in the Pulpit)
Why the Pastorate Is One of the Highest Security Jobs in an AI World
What Should a Pastor Do When One or Two Key Donors Keep the Church Doors Open
The Four Domains of Successful Outreach to Families with Children
Why We Still Believe in Short-Term Mission Trips for Churches
Unique Church Leadership Lessons from the Book of Ezra You Haven't Heard
The Back-to-School Checklist for Pastors (Prepping Your Church for Ministry to Parents and School-Age Children)
The Burge Report: Why the 1990s Were the Most Consequential in Modern U.S. Religious History
What Successful Evangelistic Churches Actually Do for Outreach
Dodging Detours: Five Ways a Feasibility Study Protects Your Campaign from Pitfalls
Should Pastors Engage in Online Fights?
The Future of Church Hiring When Pastors Are in Short Supply
Amiable Autocrats: Why Some of the Nicest Pastors Make the Worst Bosses
Why Churches Are Struggling More and More to Find Staff
Why Can't Pastors Talk About Politics?
The Burge Report: Are Non-Denominational Churches Just Southern Baptists in Disguise?
The Ongoing Shortage of Student Pastors (Where Did They Go?)
The Church Summer Slump: What Every Pastor Should Know
The Top Ten Most Common Low Attendance Days in Churches
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Bible Translation Committee (What Really Happens)
The Reality of Church Hoppers: A Pastor's Honest Perspective
Why Members Leave Their Church and Never Come Back
Why Some Pastors Stay for Decades (and Thrive in Their Churches)
The Hyper-Traditionalist Movement in Church Architecture (Is Anyone Really Building Churches This Way?)
The Church “Fault Lines” That Could Become Ministry Tsunamis
The Burge Report: Boomers Can’t Save Us Forever: The Hard Truth About Church Demographics
What Churches Should Do About Inactive Members
Are Sunday Morning Service Times Changing? What the Data Says About the Future of Church Worship Schedules
What to Say (and Not Say) Immediately After a Church Crisis
Crucial Commitments: 5 Simple Decisions That Members of Healthy and Growing Churches Make
How to Become Your Pastor's Favorite Church Member
The Best Board and Trustee Structure for Churches
Seven Things Pastors Do You Probably Don't Know About
The Burge Report: Gen Z and the Church: Lonely, Cautious, Skeptical, But... Open
How to Discard a Worn-Out Bible Properly
Should Full-Time Pastors Have a Side Hustle?
The Critical Functions of a Pastor Rarely Found in a Church Job Description
After 25 Years of Consistent Recreation Ministry, This Church Discovered Something...
What We're Doing as Pastors to Keep Our Marriages Healthy
Six Reasons Pastors Must Be More Courageous Today
The Top Ways to Annoy Your Pastor
The Burge Report: The Latest Data on Transgender Young Adults and the Church
Tithing Or Not: Should Lead Pastors Know What Church Staff Give?
What Growing Churches Actually Do to Reach and Keep People
Churches Are Targets for Predators (Here's Why)
Marriage Discipleship Is the Missing Piece in Family Ministry
Why Churches Are MUCH Older Now...
Why Guests Don't Come Back to Church After a Big Ministry Event
America's Gambling Problem and the Church
Why Small Churches Matter More Than Ever
When Church Members Become Online Trolls: What Pastors Should Do
The Burge Report: The Assemblies of God: Why This Denomination Is Defying Gravity
How Long Should a Pastor Pray Each Day?
Before You Enroll: What You Need to Know About Seminary
Should the Pastor Know How Much People Give to the Church?
The Silent Exodus of Senior Adults (What's Happening in Churches?)
Should Churches Acknowledge Super Bowl Sunday?
The Church Number: 60% The Power of a Personal Invitation
The Best Ways to Encourage a Discouraged Church (Your Next Three Steps)
Revisiting Simple Church: What Worked, What Didn't
How Do You Fire a Church Employee?
The Burge Report: The Democrats Have a Religion Problem (Does It Matter?)
When Should a Church Hire an Executive Pastor?
Digital Worship Fatigue: Why Online Church Can’t Replace the In-Person Gathering
Church Conflict: Five Common Ways Small Fights Turn into Big Problems
Does Counting Church Worship Attendance Still Make Sense?
Five Pastoral New Year's Resolutions that Aren't About You
The Burge Report: Who’s Really Watching Online Church?
After the Christmas Chaos: The Lightest Work Week of the Year for Pastors
Religious People Are Happier (And the Data Proves It)
Unbelievable: 72% of Churches Have No Marriage Ministry!
NEW Research: What Really Matters in Theological Education?
Non-Churchy Looking Churches: The Advantages of Big-Box Church Architecture
Should Churches Look Churchy? The Advantages of Traditional Architecture
How to Handle Losing Your Church's Biggest Financial Supporter
Small-Church Breakout Growth: The Incredible Story of First Baptist Caldwell, NJ
Why You Should Leave Your Church (A Pastor's Perspective)
The Burge Report: How Do Pastors Actually End Up in Ministry?
The Top Reasons Why It's Painful for Pastors to Lose Church Members
An Entrepreneurial-Minded Pastor in an Established Church: The Unique Story of a Baltimore Congregation
Three Things Every Church Small Group Leader Should Be Doing
How to Grow Generosity in Your Church (Without Making It Complicated)
The Unchurched Are Not Angry with You (But They Are Indifferent)
The Church Number: From 137 to 60 The Shrinking Median Church in America (2000–2023)
Many Churches Face Future Sticker Shock with Deferred Maintenance
The Burge Report: The Biggest Little Denomination: The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)
The One-Person Church Communication Plan (That Actually Works)
How to Get Families in Your Church to Read the Bible Together
The Least Appreciated People in Your Church (And What To Do About It)
The Legacy Life with David Green, Founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, and Bill High, CEO of Legacy Stone
How We're Using AI in Sermon Prep Ethically and Efficiently
The Unknown Connection Most Unchurched Have with the Church
Six Essential Pastoral Meetings No One is Scheduling For You
The Burge Report: The Kids Aren’t Alright—And Church Student Ministry Might Actually Help
What Really Scares People Away from Church
The Big Front Door for Guests Just About Every Church Misses
Building a Worship Ministry that Excels On and Off the Stage
The Top 6 Gripes About Church Curriculum (and What to Do About Them)
The Trust Gap: Why Outsiders Won’t Step Inside Your Church
Five Reasons Churches Should Still Try to Reach Boomers
Realistic One-to-Two-Year Objectives for Small-Church Revitalization
Millennials Move LESS than Gen X and Boomers (New Implications for Your Church)
Which “Higher Standard” Measures Actually Make Sense for Pastors
How Your Building Shapes Your Ministry: Five Ways the Baptist T Still Shapes (and Limits) Your Ministry
How Your Building Shapes Your Ministry: The Baptist T – When Building Design Limits Ministry
The Burge Report: Do Churchgoers Want More or Less Politics in the Pulpit?
The Loneliness Epidemic Among Pastors
The Non-Legalist Reasons for Weekly Church Attendance
Who in the Church Should Hold Pastors Accountable?
Weekly Church Attendance Patterns by Generation: 2016 to 2024
The Johnson Amendment Reversal: Endorsing Political Candidates from the Pulpit
Why the NLT Might Be the Best Bible You’ve Never Considered
Sermon Illustrations that Connect to the Bible Text (And Your Church!)
The Easiest (and Most Incredible) Way to Get Information from Your Guests!
The Burge Report: Is Gen Z More Religiously Engaged than Their Parents?
The Limits of Pastoral Care: When Counseling Isn’t Appropriate
The Top 5 Legal Issues Churches Face Today
Ten Quiet Disrupters in American Church Life (Part 2)
Ten Quiet Disrupters in American Church Life (Part 1)
What Young Families Really Want in a Church
Seven Occasions When You Should Not Hire More Church Staff
How Much Money Should a Pastor Make?
The Burge Report: Are Religious People More Prone to Conspiracy Theories?
The Future of America's Largest Churches: An Interview with Eric Geiger
The Shifts in How Churches Choose Small Group Curriculum (What You Need to Know): An Interview with Michael Kelley
The Best Bible Translation for Preaching
Four Kinds of Church Leaders Who Will Not Lead in Revitalization
What Should I Do After Getting Fired from a Church?
Four Common Reasons Most Churches Aren't Breakout Churches
Five Key Tips to Teach Your Church to Tithe
Eight Causes for a Ministry Slump
Is There Any Hope for Revitalizing Mainline Churches?
The Burge Report: Why Are Non-Denominational Churches Growing?
Are Church Members Cussing More Today Than in the Past?
Five Reasons Healthy Churches Seek Outside Help
Why Some Pastors Never Experience Church Growth
What Is the Right Age to Retire as a Lead Pastor?
Is Student Ministry Still a Stepping Stone?
The Pastor’s Dilemma: Loving Preaching, Loathing Sermon Prep
Approval Addiction, People Pleasing, and How Pastors Can Let Go
The Burge Report: Does Homeschooling Change the Political and Religious Views of Children?
A Checklist for Making Your First Hire in the Church
Um, Uh, and You Know: Killer Fillers in Public Speaking
Going to a Dead Church on Purpose
Five Ways to Report Truthful Worship Attendance
Young Pastors Are Rare (Here Is What Happened)
How Wedding Ceremonies Are Different Than in the 1990s (A Pastor's Perspective)
Should Churches Share Their Campuses with Other Non-Profits?
The Burge Report: Everyone Is Having Less Sex (What It Means for the Church)
What's Often Missed with Student Ministry Safety in Churches
Seven Power Groups in Churches (The Good and the Bad)
The Surprise Benefits of a Culture of Continual Education in Your Church: An Interview with Timothy Paul Jones
What Business Leaders in the Church Want Pastors to Know: An Interview with Steve Graves
The Ten Commandments of a Pastor's Vacation
The Hidden Opportunity of Hospitality in Churches: An Interview with Danny Franks
Are Smart Phones Killing Student Ministries in Churches?
Why Some of Our Churches Are Not Safe Places
Does Divorce Disqualify a Pastor from Ministry?
The Burge Report: How Church Attendance Makes You a Better American
How to Celebrate Church Staff Birthdays, Work Anniversaries, and Major Milestones
Why Hiring Friends Usually Ends in Disaster
Why Churches Are Not Early Adopters of Technology
The Right Expectations Churches Should Have of Pastors
What's Different about Pastor's Kids These Days?
Do Dying Churches Really Know They Are Dying?
How Pastors Spend Their Time During the Workweek (Any Surprises?)
The Burge Report: The New Era in American Religion Begins Now (What's Happening?!)
The Tell-Tale Signs of Abusive Pastors
Do You Really Remember What Took Place in Churches During COVID?
What Will Be the Sacred Cows in Church Worship When the Millennials Are the Oldest Generation?
Making Change in an Older Church (Without Running Over the Old Guard)
Things About Church Leadership We Haven't Figured Out Yet
Five Predictions We Got Wrong about the Future of the Church
What Every Church Leader Needs to Know to Move Church Members to Higher Levels of Generosity
How to Really Enjoy Your Christmas as a Pastor
Leading (and Loving) a Dying Church
The Warning Signs You've Stayed Too Long at a Church
Why Churches Are Not Inherently Safe Places
Common Ways Financial Mismanagement Occurs in the Church
Things to Consider When Relocating Your Church Facility - Part 3: Starting All Over–New Property, New Building
Things to Consider When Relocating Your Church Facility - Part 2: Moving Your Church to Another Building
Things to Consider When Relocating Your Church Facility - Part 1: Is Your Church Really Ready for Relocation?
6 Reasons Why Most Church Greeter Ministries Struggle
The Burge Report: Who Is Really Attending Online Church?
6 Do's and Don'ts for Pastors Before and After Worship Services
NEW Surprising Insights from the Unchurched (Releasing New Research)
What You’re Missing by Not Reading a Chronological Bible: An Interview with Iva May
Election Day Special: Shepherding a Politically Polarized Church
The Burge Report: Higher Education Leads to More Church Attendance
How Churches Became the Go-To Spot for Halloween
What Will Happen in Churches When All the Baby Boomers Are Gone?
Do NOT Make These Five Financial Mistakes in Your Church
The Nuts and Bolts of Starting a New Church Site
The Burge Report: What Happened to All the White Evangelical Democrats?
The One Simple Move a Church Can Make to Increase Its Giving by 20% or More
Three Tax Benefits Ministers May Not Know
The Implications of the Rise of Non-Denominational Churches
Getting Members Ready to Give at Death Now!
You Can Increase Your Building Funds Now!
4 Ways to Increase Giving Now!
When God Calls, It’s Time to Go! An Interview with Amanda Jass
Five Perks of Ministry Just About Every Pastor Loves
The Burge Report: The True Misery Level of Pastors in America
Why Some Declining Churches Like Their Pastors More as They Get Smaller
Rising Healthcare Costs and How Churches Can Support Pastors
What Really Motivates a Church to Do More Outreach
Give Your Fall Programming Launch Extra Boost!
Why Mid-Size Churches Have a Growing Advantage in Reaching People
A Gamechanger to Get Visitors to Your Churches: An Interview with Marc Estes
How to Guide Your Church through the Coming Election Season without Losing Your Mind
The Big Things That Can Go Wrong with Your Church Facilities With Todd Brown and Isaac Brown of Brown Church Development Group
Is Your Church Facility Really Safe? With Todd Brown and Isaac Brown of Brown Church Development Group
Why the Exterior of Your Church Facility Is Important for Growth With Todd Brown and Isaac Brown of Brown Church Development Group
A Thirty-Year Look-Back at the Biggest Changes in the American Church
The Burge Report: Retention Rates in Churches Are Not What They Used to Be (Here's Why)
Walking Back a Decision After You Realize It's Not God's Will
Finding Another Church to Pastor (When You Know It's Time)
Why Location Matters for the Fastest-Growing Churches
Are Our Church Members Too Old?
Five Reasons Your Worship Music May Not Be Clicking
The Burge Report: Are There Too Many Churches in the United States?
Rebuilding Your Reputation after a Church Scandal
How Do Growing Churches Reach Young Families?
Why People Don't Ask Tough Questions in Church
Three Major Future Shifts for Churches You May Not Expect: An Interview with Brady Shearer
The Confusion about the Word “Discipleship”
Why Every Woman in Your Church Needs This Bible: An Interview with Naomi Cramer Overton and Misty Arterburn
BR002 The Burge Report: A Deep Dive into the Decline of the Southern Baptist Convention
SP030 What Should You Do When a Handful of Key Donors Support the Church – An Interview with Mike Stadelmayer
SP029 The Upside and Downside of Designated Giving in Churches – An Interview with Mike Stadelmayer
SP028 Making the Ask: How Pastors Should Approach Key Church Donors – An Interview with Mike Stadelmayer
Four Major Shifts in Church Staffing
Speaking in Tongues and Other Trending Worship Issues
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Overcoming Failure: An Interview with Scott Beck
BR001 The Burge Report: Who Is Attending Church MORE Frequently Now Than in the Past?
The Impact of Doctrine on Church Growth
The Good and Bad of Church Staff Having their Own Constituencies
How Much Time Should a Pastor Spend Preparing Sermons Each Week?
Should Pastors Endorse Political Candidates?
Should We Close Our Church? Five Issues to Consider
Should I Plan to Retire from My Church? Five Questions
SP027 How Does Church Design Impact the Culture of a Church? With Todd Brown of Brown Church Development Group
SP026 How Do Groups Change a Facility? With Todd Brown of Brown Church Development Group
SP025 How Do You Build a Church Facility Design for Ministry? With Todd Brown of Brown Church Development Group
How Do We Reach the Never Attenders?
Who Are the Never Attenders Today?
How to Create a Useful Evangelism Budget for Your Church
Five Key Objectives of an Excellent Interim Pastorate
How a Church Should Respond When a Pastor Has Mental Health Problems
Why Don't Church Members Invite Their Friends Anymore?
What Can Church Leaders Do about the Great Dechurching? An Interview with Jim Davis and Michael Graham
The Great Dechurching: An Interview with Jim Davis and Michael Graham
Six Questions to Discern Toxic Church Conflict from Healthy Church Conflict
An Unexpected Comeback: The Surprising Return of the Neighborhood Church
Connecting Our Christian Faith to Its Jewish Roots: An Interview with Susan Perlman
To Be a Unicorn: An Interview with William Vanderbloemen
What Does It Really Mean for Pastors to Be Above Reproach: An Interview with Matt McCraw
What Happens in the Church When Women Thrive in Ministry: An Interview with Jacki C. King
How You Can Get Your Church Members Reading the Bible Regularly: An Interview with Alex Goodwin
When Difficult People Want to Come Back to Church After Leaving
How to Encourage Church Members Who Serve Behind the Scenes
Getting Your Church Leaders and Members Really Reading the Bible: An Interview with Ann White
The Community Demographics and Psychographics Churches Most Often Miss
Pivot: An Interview with Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer
How Much Vacation Should Pastors Take?
Does a New Mover Ministry Really Work? An Early Analysis
A Special Three-Part Series with Upward: What the Future of Church Recreation Ministry Looks Like (Start Now)
A Special Three-Part Series with Upward: How to Make Sports Work for Your Church and Not Against You
A Special Three-Part Series with Upward: Why We Need a Church Recreation Ministry Comeback More Than Ever
The Pastor's Sunday Attire: Dress Up or Blend In?
The Story of the Neighborhood Church That Could: An Interview with Sam Rainer
What Happens When a Church Exhausts Itself on Fighting
A New England Church Comeback Story Everyone Needs to Know: An Interview with Gary Moritz
A Special Three-Part Series with Church Growth Services: Churches Are Getting Less of Total Charitable Giving Every Year—What’s Going On?
A Special Three-Part Series with Church Growth Services: The Implications of Churches Holding More Debt for Longer Periods of Time
A Special Three-Part Series with Church Growth Services: Three Generosity Megatrends Your Church Cannot Afford to Ignore
God With Us: An Interview with Jeff Gissing
Five Reasons a Healthy Growing Church Must Teach the Essentials of Christianity
How to Get Your Church Members to Become Prayer Warriors
The Break-Even Dilemma: Why Your Church Has to Replace a Third of Attendance to Stay Even Each Year
A Special Three-Part Series with Brown Church Development Group: What You Really Need to Know about a Church Master Plan
A Special Three-Part Series with Brown Church Development Group: How to Right-Size Your Church's Facilities
A Special Three-Part Series with Brown Church Development Group: Why Any Size Church Should Have a "Path" for Guests (and Members Too)
Why Pastors Above the Age of 70 Will Become Increasingly Common
The Next Wave of Departures in Churches (and What Your Church Can Do to Prevent It)
Our Thoughts on the State of Church Consulting (and What to Expect in the Future)
How Pastors Can Use Feelings of Restlessness in a Positive Way for Their Churches
Leading Your Church without Losing Your Children
Seven Recommendations for When a Child in Your Church Accepts Christ
Five Reasons Why Churches Are Taking Longer to Find Pastors (Update)
Five Current Trends in Churches Fostering Churches
The New Fight for Life: An Interview with Benjamin Watson
How Involved Should the Lead Pastor Be When Hiring New Church Staff?
The Best Personality for Pastoral Leadership
Should Christians Give to the Homeless Man on the Street Corner? Money and Ethics: An Interview with Dr. Art Rainer and Dr. Dave Jones
Millennials Are the Least Mobile Generation (Your Church Can Reach and Keep Them)
Church Members Are Getting Much Older (The Real Stat and What It Means)
The Giving Crisis: An Interview with Andrew McNair
Is a Call to Vocational Ministry Irrevocable? Three Perspectives
The New Rules for Church Facilities We Didn't See Coming
Four Reasons Why Evangelism Died in Many Churches (and How to Reverse the Trend)
Why Millennials Need Boomers More Than Ever in Their Churches
Five Updates on Pastoral Tenure
Getting Men in Your Church to Make a Difference: Interview with Kyle Thompson
Five Trends We See in Churches Under 250 in Attendance
When Is It Time to Fight in a Church?
A Special Three-Part Series with Church Growth Services: Changes in Church Finances Every Leader Needs to Know - Part 3
A Special Three-Part Series with Church Growth Services: Changes in Church Finances Every Leader Needs to Know - Part 2
A Special Three-Part Series with Church Growth Services: Changes in Church Finances Every Leader Needs to Know - Part 1
Six Things We Would Tell Our Younger Selves about Pastoring
New Data Reveals Big Gains for Non-Denominational Churches
When the Pastor's Spouse Wants to Leave the Church
What Changes with a Move from a Church of 50 to a Church of 150
What Is a Smaller Church? What Is a Larger Church? Part 2: The Implications of this New Data
What Is a Smaller Church? What Is a Larger Church? Part 1: The Surprise (Shock?) of this New Data
Exactly What Is Women's Ministry in the Church? An Interview with Jacki King
Do We Have a Clear Picture of Spiritual Gifts Today?
Do You Have to Be Committed to a Local Church to Be a Christian?
Why Many Churches Are Becoming Mini-Seminaries
How a Financial Champion Can Significantly Increase Giving in Your Church
Part 4 - A Special Series with Brown Church Development Group: How to Increase Attendance and Align Ministries with Your Church Facility
Part 3 - A Special Series with Brown Church Development Group: How to Increase Attendance and Align Ministries with Your Church Facility
Part 2 - A Special Series with Brown Church Development Group: How to Increase Attendance and Align Ministries with Your Church Facility
Part 1 - A Special Series with Brown Church Development Group: How to Increase Attendance and Align Ministries with Your Church Facility
The Serious Inflationary Warning for Churches
Six Ways to Make Certain Evangelism Does Not Die in Your Church
How Streaming Has Changed Preaching
Is It Wise to Bring Family Members on Church Staff?
The New Rules for Staff Office Hours at Church
An Update on Church Health Post-COVID Heading into 2023
How Churches on the Edge of Death Survived
Why Revitalization May Not Be Working in Your Church
How to Bring Evangelism Back into the Rhythms of Your Church
Special Series with Awana - Part 2: What You Are Likely Missing with Family Discipleship in the Church
Special Series with Awana - Part 1: How the Pandemic Has Changed Children's Ministry (For the Better)
Why You Should Teach Your Church Members to Understand the Bible as a Whole
How Church Guests Are Different Now Compared to Ten Years Ago
The Four Ways Almost Every Growing Church Does It
The Changing Landscape of Ministry Education and Training
Helping Your Church Members Understand How Their Story is Intertwined with God’s Story: An Interview with The Chronological Bible Team
What the Overturning of Roe v. Wade Means for the Church
Six Prudent Practices to Prepare Your Church Budget for a Potential Economic Recession
Should School and Similar Ministries Tied to a Church Be Self-Supporting? Six Key Thoughts
Special Series - 15 Digital Tools Every Church Needs - Part 2: The Helpful
Special Series - 15 Digital Tools Every Church Needs - Part 3: The Newer
Special Series - 15 Digital Tools Every Church Needs - Part 1: The Basics
The Rise in Popularity of the New Living Translation: An Interview with Tremper Longman, III
Four Glaring Church Leadership Deficiencies You Can Correct Immediately
Why Younger Generations Are Leaving the Church and How to Reengage Them: An Interview with Streetlights Ministry
How to Handle a Toxic Church Member
Your Church Members Won't Always Agree with You And Why That's Ok
Your Call to Pray for the Persecuted: An Interview with Todd Nettleton from the Voice of the Martyrs
The Early Warning Signs Preceding a Decline in Church Health
What Transparent Church Leaders Gain and What Secretive Church Leaders Lose
Things Believers Do that Make the Unchurched Bristle
The Lifecycle of a Pastor
Moving Your Congregation to Greater Bible Reading and Literacy: an interview with Glenn Paauw from the Institute for Bible Reading
Four Key Safeguards to Make Sure Your Church’s Finances Stand Up Under Scrutiny
Ten Things Pastors Don't Like about Pastoring
The Difference Between a "Can Do" Church and a "Can't Do" Church
Healing Our Racial Divide - An Interview with Dr. Derwin Gray
The Three Big Reasons Great Churches Fall
Keeping Tabs on How the News Media Influences Your Church
The Great Reshuffling of Pastors and the Future for the Church
Five Ways a Pastor Can Use Monday to Recover from Sunday
Counting the Cost of Staying in a Church
“The Silent Epidemic and the Church: Ministering in the Midst of the Opioid Crisis” An Interview with Steve Arterburn
What Should You Do About Toxic Social Media Posts?
How to Handle a Church Staff Person’s Moral Failure
Preaching When You Don't Feel Like It
Equipping More People in Your Church to Give Sacrificially
The Sting of Betrayal in the Church
Special Series: How Churches Are Getting People to Return to In-Person Worship Services - Part 3
Special Series: How Churches Are Getting People to Return to In-Person Worship Services - Part 2
Special Series: How Churches Are Getting People to Return to In-Person Worship Services - Part 1
The Church Revitalization Checklist - Part 3 of 3: Bad Dreams and Pessimism Kill Revitalization
The Church Revitalization Checklist - Part 2 of 3: Tending to What Is Most Important in Church Revitalization
The Church Revitalization Checklist - Part 1 of 3: Hit the Reset Button, Not Pause
Monkeys and Military Bibles - An Amazing Interview with Jeff Hilliard
Believing is Seeing: An Interview with Dr. Michael Guillen
Getting the Help You Need Right Now
Passing The Promise: An Interview with Keith Getty
The Essentials of a Great Ministry Resume
The Seven Expectations of Every Church Member
Five Considerations Before You Leave Your Church
Seven Key Ways Churches Have Broken the 150 - 250 Barrier Post-COVID
Overcoming Stress and Burnout in Life and Ministry - An interview with Carey Nieuwhof
The Future of the All-White Church in America
Five Reasons Being a Pastor Is More Difficult Than it Was 15 Years Ago
What Your Church Can Expect for Christmas this Year
What Your Church Can Expect for Christmas this Year
Six Simple Tips to Start Having More Fun in Ministry
Six Simple Tips to Start Having More Fun in Ministry
Knowing and Enjoying God: An Interview with Tim Challies
Knowing and Enjoying God: An Interview with Tim Challies
Five Ways to Plagiarize-Proof Your Sermons
Five Ways to Plagiarize-Proof Your Sermons
How the Neighborhood Church Could Make a Comeback
How the Neighborhood Church Could Make a Comeback
Five Ways to Enjoy Your Community to Reach Your Community
Five Ways to Enjoy Your Community to Reach Your Community
How Much Should You Shepherd Church Members on Social Media?
The Importance of Pastoral Succession for the Future Health of Your Church - An Interview with William Vanderbloemen
Developing a Culture of Generosity in Your Church: An Interview with Church Growth Services
Developing a Culture of Generosity in Your Church: An Interview with Church Growth Services
Six Common Mistakes Mid-Career Pastors Make
Six Common Mistakes Mid-Career Pastors Make
The Importance of Pastoral Succession for the Future Health of Your Church - An Interview with William Vanderbloemen
From $1.06 and 25 People to a $700,000 Budget and a Church of 450 – An Interview with Jonathan Smith
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Navigating Tough Conversations with Your Kids – An Interview with Jimmy and Kristin Scroggins
Navigating Tough Conversations with Your Kids - An interview with Jimmy and Kristin Scroggins
The Voice is Back! An Interview with Jonathan Howe
The Voice is Back! An Interview with Jonathan Howe
Celebrating 20 Years of “In Christ Alone" – An Interview with Keith Getty
Celebrating 20 Years of “In Christ Alone - An Interview with Keith Getty
The Miracle in the Cow Pasture: The Future of Rural Churches – An Interview with B. J. Rutledge
The Miracle in the Cow Pasture: The Future of Rural Churches
Tips for Handling Controversial Cultural Topics with Your Congregation
Tips for Handling Controversial Cultural Topics with Your Congregation
Make the Most of the Rest of Your Summer with These Five Tips
Make the Most of the Rest of Your Summer with These Five Tips
Preaching with Humility – An Interview with Dr. Jim Shaddix
Preaching with Humility - An Interview with Dr. Jim Shaddix
The Mysterious Missing Spiritual Discipline of Gathering
Is Your Church Equipped to Handle a Suicide Epidemic? – An Interview with Dr. Matthew Sleeth
Is Your Church Equipped to Handle a Suicide Epidemic?
Five Characteristics of Pastors Who Overcome a Church Bully
Five Characteristics of Pastors Who Overcome a Church Bully
What Church Leaders Are Doing to Recover Evangelism
What Church Leaders Are Doing to Recover Evangelism
New Membership Classes are More Important Than Ever Post-COVID
The Mysterious Missing Spiritual Discipline of Gathering
New Membership Classes are More Important Than Ever Post-COVID
Five Keys to Improving Your Leadership at a Mid-Size Church
Five Keys to Improving Your Leadership at a Mid-Size Church
Five Reasons Why the Smaller Church Is Viewed More Favorably Today
Five Reasons Why the Smaller Church Is Viewed More Favorably Today
How Leaders Should Apologize Publicly
How Leaders Should Apologize Publicly
The Best Way to Lead Your Church in an Uncertain Year
The Best Way to Lead Your Church in an Uncertain Year
Lessons from Chick-fil-A: How to Transition to a New Career in 2021
Lessons from Chick-fil-A: How to Transition to a New Career in 2021 - An Interview with Dee Ann Taylor
Five Reasons Why Many Church Leaders Neglect Personal Finances: An Interview with Art Rainer
Five Reasons Why Many Church Leaders Neglect Personal Finances: An Interview with Art Rainer
Cultivating Leadership Resilience When Exhausted
Cultivating Leadership Resilience When Exhausted
What You Should Expect for In-Person Easter Services This Year
What You Should Expect for In-Person Easter Services This Year
Dealing with Pandemic Anxiety and Stress in Your Life and in the Church: An Interview with Dr. Gregory L. Jantz
Five Major Ways Church Giving Has Changed
Four Mindset Changes Church Leaders Must Make in 2021
Leading a Simple Church in a Post-COVID World: An Interview with Eric Geiger
How to Handle an Unruly Business or Leadership Meeting
The Number One Missing Ingredient in Church Leadership
Should Pastors Be Friends with Church Members or Not?
Five Often-Overlooked Benefits of Established Churches
What Every Church Leader Needs to Know About the Messiness of Divorce – An Interview with Toni Nieuwhof
The 100 Factor of Negativity
Five Things You Should Do As You Lead Your Church to a New Year
Why People Love Traditional Christmas Eve Services
Calming a Restless Heart Through Music: An Interview with Kristyn Getty
Why I Stopped Preaching
How to Minister to Church Members We Can't Visit
How to Lead When Disaster Strikes: An Interview with Stephen Kyle and Tim Songster
Does Your Church Need a Mentoring Ministry? – An interview with Kevin Harris from Radical Mentoring
Five Unusual Situations for Pastors (with thanks to the community of Church Answers)
Some Surprises of the Post-Quarantine Church: An Interview with Carey Nieuwhof
When to Keep Confidentiality with Church Members
Five Ways to Heal the Negativity of the Election Season in Your Church
The Five Factors of a Long-term, Healthy Fit: An Interview with Matt Steen and Todd Rhoades with Chemistry Staffing
The Church Guest Experience in a Post-COVID World: An Interview with Greg Atkinson
Intentional Church Facility Stewardship – An Interview with Tim Cool
Overcoming the Numb Feeling and Moving Forward in a Post-Quarantine Era
Five Reasons Why the Speed of Change Must Accelerate in Your Church in the Post-Quarantine Era
The Post-Quarantine Church
How to Deal with Constant Critics and Angry Church Members
Learning to Love and Lead the Different, the Difficult, & Everyone Else: an interview with Adam Weber
COVID 19 Design Impacts: An Interview with Tim Songster
How to Re-engage Church Members Who Dropped Out During the Pandemic
Growing Healthy Churches Together: Tyndale House Publishers and Church Answers
Four Warning Signs Stress is Beginning to Impair Your Leadership
Five Ways to Honor the Past While Not Losing the Future
People are Addicted to Outrage: Four Ways to Walk a Better Path – An Interview with Ed Stetzer
How to Be an Encouraging Church Member
Leading Remotely: An Interview with BELAY COO, Lisa Zeeveld
Understanding the 64% Factor: What If Everyone Showed Up at Church at the Same Time?
Listening and Praying Forward During a Time of Racial Reconciliation: An Interview with Pastor Tyrone Barnette
The Five Most Common Ways Churches Are Adding Space for Social Distancing
Five Ways Your Church Facility Is a Tool for Ministry
Why Church Leaders Have an Incredible Window of Opportunity
How to be a positive influence in the negative world of social media – An interview with New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge
Old Tech and New Tech Solutions You Should Keep Doing as You Return to In-Person Services
How to Make Worship Services BETTER Right Now – An interview with Jordan Richmond
Repurposing Your Church During the Pandemic- An Interview with Mike Glenn
Happy Mother’s Day with the Rainer Wives
Seven Ways to Be A Better Servant Leader for Your Church
Creating a Financial Plan for Your Church During the Outbreak
The Temporary Normal including a Post-Coronavirus Facility Reopening Checklist from Smart Church Solutions
Five Hard Things Churches Must Do Right Now
Why Your Church Must Move to Both Digital AND Automated Giving Immediately (Interview with Jess Rainer)
What Churches Are Learning in the Digital World
“Why Are Christians Reluctant to Talk about Earning Money?” An Interview with Art Rainer, promoting his new book, Find More Money
Keeping Your Spirits Up When Your World is Down
The Vision-Driven Leader: An Interview with Michael Hyatt
Leading The Church When You Doubt Yourself
Leading Your Church When So Much Is Unknown
Understanding Church Disruption
Speaking and Preaching to a Virtual Audience
Preparing Your Family for a Ministry Transition
Should You Publish a Book?
Why Joy is So Effective (and Underestimated) When Leading Others – Interview with Josh Teis
Which Methods of Personal Communication Work Best in the Church?
Why Do Different Worship Services Seem to Have Different Levels of Energy?
How Long Should Church Staff Members Stay after They Announce Their Resignations?
How Church Leaders Deal with Gossip in the Church
Four Major Changes in Preaching the Past Decade
Interview with Vance Pitman on the topic of his new book, Unburdened: Stop Living for Jesus So Jesus Can Live through You
A New Way to Know Your Community
How to Respond When Church Members Hold Key Leadership Positions But Don't Attend Faithfully
Where Many Americans Find Meaning in Life and How It Affects Your Church
Should Pastoral Candidates' Identities Be Kept Confidential until They Are Formally Presented to the Church? Point/Counterpoint
A Tool to Give You an Idea Where Your Church Is Headed in the Future
Three More Trends for Churches in 2020
Four Trends for Churches in 2020
The Most Significant Single Changes in Turnaround Churches: Five Examples
Four Lessons Pastors of Struggling Churches Are Learning from Each Other
Conducting a Funeral for a Newborn or Still Born Baby
Four Signs of Bad Church Bylaws
Four Occasions When Your Church May Need a Transitional Pastor
Lessons Learned from Churches That Almost Died but Didn't (Part 2)
Lessons Learned from Churches That Almost Died but Didn't (Part 1)
Six Things I Pray I Won't Do as a Senior Adult in My Church
Five Healthy Practices When Members of Another Church Visit Your Church
Update on Church Welcoming Ministries: What's Missing?
Four Occasions When a Pastor Should Draw a Line in the Sand
Understanding the Differences between Church Adoption, Church Fostering, and Church Revitalization
One Key Reason Many Churches Are Fighting Attendance Declines (Update)
Seven of the Most Fiercely Defended Traditions in the Church
The Berry Bucket and How It Often Causes Church Conflict
What Church Leaders Must Know for 2020 – An Interview with Dave Travis of Generis
Understanding Resistance to Change in Churches
Why the Local Church Is the Key Instrument of the Great Commission
Five Considerations When You Follow a Long-Term Pastor
Five Ways to Address the Oversized Sanctuary
Five Ways Your Church Budget May Be Broken
Five Major Reasons Your Church May Be Stuck
Five Problems with Too Many "Main Things" in a Church
Four Things Your Church Should Know about Fostering a Church
Four Often Neglected Practices of Most Leaders
Six Seismic Shifts in Church Health
Four Reasons Why Many Welcoming Churches Have Become Less Welcoming
Six Ways Churches Are Dealing with Parking Shortages
Five Common Ways Church Leaders Respond to Overload Anxiety
Six Questions to Consider If a Staff Member Becomes a Candidate to Be Pastor
How to Build a Worship Ministry When You Have Nothing and Nobody
Five Church Membership Models
Five Key Reasons Many Churches Struggle to Reach Their Communities
A Case Study of an Established Church Adopting a Struggling Church
Goodbye Jonathan, Part 2
Goodbye Jonathan, Part 1
The Six Most Simple Adjustments to Become a Welcoming Church
Getting under the Hood of Church Giving to Increase Generosity in Your Congregation
How Churches Should Respond to Seven Major Changes
Seven Ways to Hurt Your Pastor
Leading Millennials in Your Church
Seven Things Pastors Would Like Church Members to Know about Their Children
Seven Things We Should Celebrate Regularly in Our Churches
Seven Major Ways Pastors Discern It's Time to Leave Their Church
Six Reasons Longevity Is Critical for Change Leadership
Six Reasons Pastors Must Become Change Leaders
Six Reasons Why the Minimization of Numerical Metrics Is Dangerous
Six Reasons Why "People Are Saying . . ." Is the Most Frustrating Comment for Church Leaders
Five Updates on Pastoral Attire
Five Reasons Some Churches Celebrate Debt Retirement
Should Pastors Announce Their Upcoming Vacation?
Six Ways a Church Failed the Guest Friendliness Test
Six Reasons a Healthy Culture Is Imperative for Inviting Others to Church
Six Ways Toxic Members Deter Invitations to Church
Why the Pendulum on Church Metrics May Be Swinging Too Far
Seven Reasons Why More Churches Are Calling on Interventionists
Seven Thoughts on Pastoral Attire in Worship Services
Six Common Mistakes Made by Preachers from the Pulpit (That Might Get Them in Trouble)
10 Responses from Fired Pastors
Six Reactions to the Increase of Declining Church Stats
Seven Ways Healthy Church Members Pray for Their Pastors
Seven Ways to Be a Unifying Church Member
Eight Updates on Sunday Evening Services
Seven Updated Strategies for the Pastor's First 90 Days
Six Reasons Why Churches Should Not Abandon the Boomer Generation
Five Intriguing Updates on Gen Z and Churches
Six Unique Additions Some Churches Have Made to Their Worship Services
Six Cultural Pastoral Issues Where Pastors Often Struggle
10 Main Reasons People Leave the Church
Update on the Early Launches of Pray and Go
Five Ways to Lead Your Groups to Become Outwardly Focused
Facility Crises and How Churches Are Responding
New Patterns in Ministry Training
Hiring Several Part-time Staff Rather Than One Full-time Staffer
What Pastors Need to Do When They Are Deeply Hurt
Seven Key Ways to Alleviate the Pain of Low Attendance Days
Reaching the Nominally Churched
Understanding the Nominally Churched
Six Common Reasons Pastors Lose Their Temper
Does Co-Pastoring Really Work?
Seven Symptoms of a Dying Church
Seven Church Member Attitudes That Lead to the Death of Churches
Why Giving Goes Down When Attendance Goes Up
Six Risks I Took As a Pastor (Including Some That Failed Miserably)
Nine Thoughts on Church Splits
When to Discontinue a Ministry
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Preachers
Eight Church Fights That Are Fading
Four Thoughts on Ordination
Understanding the Differences between Open Groups and Closed Groups (and the Benefits of Both)
Top Seven Major Facility Mistakes of the Past 20 Years
Seven Ways Churches Make Prayer Central to Their Worship Services
Five Incredible Tools for Better Stewardship
Five Findings about Gen Z That Will Impact Churches
Five Highly Effective Ways to Enhance Corporate Prayer in Your Church
Six Issues Regarding Mega Vacancies in Megachurches
Six Different But Important Questions Pastors Are Asking
Five Micro-Strategies for Growing Your Church
The Most Frequent Issues Facing Pastors and Other Church Leaders
Seven Ways to Stay Encouraged in Pastoral Ministry
Five Reasons Your Church Should Have a Virtual Facility Assessment Immediately
Six Major Areas Where Pastors Want to Reset Their Ministries
What Former Pastors Don’t Miss about Pastoring
What Former Pastors Miss Most about Pastoring
Reconsidering Worship Service Alternatives Beyond Sunday Morning
Understanding the Internet Church as a Entry Point to the Physical Gathering
Why Your Church Attendance May Vary 25% Each Week
Why Tracking Church Attendance Is Important
How to Deal with the Constant Critic in Your Church
Why Many Churches Will Quadruple Their Outreach Efforts This Year
What Pastors Need to Do When They Are Deeply Hurt
10 Reasons for Optimism in 2019
Seven Keys to Protecting Your Ministry During Your Building Program
The Six Most Common Regrets of Pastors and How to Overcome Them
How to Move Forward When the Pastor and the Staff Member Are Not Aligned
Five Ways Churches Are Unintentionally Forcing Pastors Out
Five Incredible Tools for Better Stewardship in Your Church
6 Reasons Many Church Leaders Stop Leading Outwardly
Five Types of Interventions for Churches Needing Revitalization
Primary Factors That Led to a Pastor’s Call to Ministry
Five Common Ways Pastors Overcome Sermon Blocks
Trends in the Number of Weekends a Pastor Preaches Each Year
Why Is the Music So Loud in My Worship Service?
Six Surprising Time Drainers of Church Leaders
Why Pastors' Honeymoons are Getting Shorter
Seven Reasons the 10+ Year Pastorate Is Becoming More Common
Six Social Media Posts Church Leaders Should Avoid
Should the Pastor Have Visibility to Members' Giving?
Six Ways to Minister after a Miscarriage
Ten Goofy Criticisms of Pastors
Five Major "What If" We Regrets We Are Hearing from Churches
Altar Calls, the Perfect Pastoral Work Week, and Other Listener Questions
The Six Characteristics of a Scrappy Church
Seven Traits of a Healthy Church
Should a Church Pursue Legacy Giving?
Sacred Cows to Be Aware of in Your Church
Seven Reasons Why Writing Handwritten Notes Will Revolutionize Your Ministry
Six Reasons Why Churches Continue to Get Immature Christians in Leadership Positions
Why I’m Starting Revitalize Network
A Look Back at My Time at LifeWay
Five Types of Infrequent Attendees
Five Key Reasons Churches Become More Unified
How to Say No to Church Members
Why Staff Issues Are Among the Most Painful Church Issues
Why Poor Discipleship Is Such a Big Issue in Many Churches
Your Church Has Been Offered a Facility…Now What?
What to Do If You Desire Excellence in the Church, but You Are Not Seeing It
Eight Ways Church Members Can Help Pastors Avoid Burnout
Why Some Interim Pastorates Are Successful When Others Are Not
Five Major Ways to Improve Your Worship Services
Why People Don’t Invite Others to Church
Problems Churches Face When They Don’t Have a Pastor
Why Digital Giving Options Are Vital for the Financial Health of Your Church
Nine Key Statistical Insights from Churches in 2018
The Value of Women in the Workplace and the Rise of Working from Home
Eight Warning Signs Your Church Is Drifting from God’s Mission
Seven Reasons People Give More to Their Church
Top Ten Ways Churches Drive Away First-time Guests
Five Consequences of the Pending Retirement of Boomer Pastors
Five Future Developments Coming to the Church
Six Considerations for Selecting Mission Partners
Why People Leave a Church
Seven Ways to Adapt to Changes in Church Attendance
How to Deal With an Angry Church Member
Four Steps for Dealing with a #MeToo Moment in Your Church
Six Ways the #MeToo Movement Has Affected Local Church Life
Equipping Millennials in the Church
Eight Ways the Digital World Has Changed Local Church Ministry
What to Do If You Are Exhausted from Doing Ministry
The Unchurched Next Door
Seven Tips for Pastors on Facebook
How to Do Staff Reviews
Surprising Insights from the Unchurched
Legal Issues Facing Churches Today
Challenges Church Personnel Committees (or Similar Groups) Face
Six Reasons to Love the Established Church
How Pastors Can Battle the Monday Blues
Eight Examples of When a Pastor Leaves Too Soon
Church Mergers, Administrative Responsibilities, and Other Listener Questions
Seven Time Eaters for Pastors and Staff
Six Major Staff Issues Pastors Face
What Pastors and Church Staff Tell Us They Wished They Had Learned at Seminary
Six Myths about Outreach in the Local Church
Seven Signs a Church Member Is Leaving
Small Church Essentials with Karl Vaters
Key Issues for Follow-up of Guests
One Simple Step Toward a Better Church Budget
15 Favorite Apps for Church Leaders
Will the Ministers' Housing Allowance Go Away?
Should You Leave or Stay at Your Church?
The Eight Traits of an Assimilated Church Member
Five Reasons for Decreased Church Giving
Six Future Projections about Churches That Are Becoming Reality
Culture Wins, featuring William Vanderbloemen
Eight Questions Welcoming Churches Ask
9 Keys for Church Members to Be More Guest Friendly This Easter
How to Develop a Welcoming Worship Ministry
What to Do if Your Church Does Not Pay You Adequately
Seven Key Facility Issues Facing Churches Today
Five of the Most Common Questions Pastors Ask
Six of the Most Common Reasons for Church Staff Conflict
How to Avoid Echo Chamber Leadership
12 Warning Signs of Potentially Bad Church Hires
The Rise of Networks, Bivocational Pastors, and Other Listener Questions
Five Reasons Pastors and Worship Leaders Should Meet Weekly
Seven Keys to Growing as a Pastor
Overcoming Mission Drift in Your Church
Eight Reasons Denominations Are Struggling
How to Overcome Barriers to the Simple Church Model
Four Keys to a Successful Church Year in 2018
Should You Count Online Viewers as Worship Attendees?
Virtual Culture and the Church
Does Your Church Need a Church Consultation?
Creating a Zero-Based Church Schedule
Humor and the Church with @ChrchCurmudgeon
Why 2018 Is so Different Than 2008 in the Local Church
When to Leave a Church (and other listener questions)
How to Handle a Church Staff Financial Crisis (and other listener questions)
Finding the Right Rhythm in Your Preaching Ministry
Ten Important Trends for Churches in 2018
Breaking Out of the Status Quo in Your Church
Why Leaders Stop Leading
10 Keys to Maximizing Your Church Facility
How Being Nice Can Lead to Bad Decisions
Five Ways to Connect Your Church to Your Community
What Churches That Have Healthy Small Groups Are Doing
Seven Ways Mentoring Can Transform Your Church
Five Problems with Conventional Wisdom
Five Problems Caused by Short Pastoral Tenure
Eight Keys for Church Christmas Services
The Beth Moore Story
Why Leaders Get Cold Feet
How Church Leaders Can Fight Discouragement
Seven Ways Busyness Can Harm a Church
Four Stupid Things Pastors Do That Ruin Their Ministry
The Importance of Guest Connections
Four Communications Problems Churches Face and How to Solve Them
Ten Unrealistic Expectations Placed on Ministry Spouses
Six Ways to Lose Church Volunteers
Five Small Shifts That That Will Transform Your Ministry
Three Important Financial Realities Facing Churches Today
Seven Characteristics of Proactive Pastors
10 Critical Pieces of Pastoral Advice
5 Simple Ways to Improve as a Church Leader
Why Every Leader Should Consider Having a Coach
10 Mistakes Churches Make in Evaluating Pastors
Seven Symptoms of Leaders Who Don’t Finish Well
Six Reasons Not to Quit
5 Compelling Reasons To Start a New Church or Campus
10 Reasons Church Revitalizations Often Fail
Seven Reasons Church Acquisitions Are Critical for the Future
Five Evangelism Realities We Must Face
Five Surprising Insights about Growing Churches
10 Keys to Creating Passionate Volunteers
Four Paths for Church Revitalization
Growing Churches, Evangelism Renewal, and You
Seven Thoughts That Will Ruin a Leader
Five Leadership Roadblocks Effective Leaders Overcome
Five Really Bad Reasons for Entering the Ministry
How to Leave a Legacy as a Leader
Keeping an Inner City Church in the Inner City
Seven Personalities of Sick Churches
Six Evangelism Killers in a Church
What to Do When You Work for a Bad Leader
10 Most Frequent Questions Pastors Have
How to Improve Your Preaching or Teaching
How Stability Can Hurt a Church
Why Church Members Attend Less Frequently
13 Signs of Pastor Fatigue
She Reads Truth with Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams
Five Danger Signs in Churches
Five Big Problems for Small Churches, featuring Karl Vaters
Eight Signs That Point to Probable Church Death
Dealing with Private Distractions to Worship, featuring Mike Harland
The Money Challenge featuring Art Rainer
Why So Many Churches Are Too Busy
How to Reverse a Negative Church Environment
The Pastor and Church Revitalization featuring Andrew Davis
Top Seven Regrets Most Pastors Have
10 Things Church Members Want from Their Pastor
Dealing with Public Distractions to Worship, featuring Mike Harland
The 10 Most Common Things a Church Consultant Will Tell Your Church
How Churches Can Break Growth Barriers, featuring Warren Bird
Six Reasons Millennials Should Consider Pastoring Established Churches
When to Pull the Plug on a Ministry and Other Listener Questions
What to Do When You Build too Big
How to Make Your Ministry Résumé Stand Out
Finding Unity in Worship Styles featuring Mike Harland
Four Keys to Creating a Healthy Staff Culture featuring Bryan and Shannon Miles
The Need for Church Replanting featuring Mark Clifton
Nine Changes Churches Must Make Or Die
Six Reasons for Increased Pastoral Tenure
The Importance of Church Facility Stewardship featuring Tim Cool
Pastoral Leadership, Prayer, and Church Health
Six Warning Signs That a Church Has a Problem with Entitlement Mentality
Introducing the Christian Standard Bible with Trevin Wax
Eight Easter-Related Church Trends
12 Metrics for Church Assessment
Six Traits of Preacher Eater Churches
Missions & Church Planting in North America, with Kevin Ezell
Ten Ways Pastors Can Be Great Bosses
Ten Ways Pastors Can Be Terrible Bosses
Congregational Singing and the Pastor, Featuring Mark Dever
Congregational Singing with Keith & Kristyn Getty
10 Questions to Diagnose the Evangelistic Health of Your Church
The Disappearance of the 11:00 AM Sunday Service
Four Essentials for Ministering to Men
How to Respond When You’re Forced Out of a Church
How to Respond When a Staff Member Has an Affair
What to Include in a Visitor Welcome Packet and Other Listener Questions
Leading Change in an Established Church, featuring Jimmy Scroggins
Why Greeters Are Important in Getting Guests to Return
Seven Questions to Ask When You’re Not Hired Near Unanimously
Why Smaller Churches Are Going Multisite
Six Statements That Could Kill a Church
Marketplace Bivocational Ministry, featuring Jimmy Scroggins
How to Adjust When Church Giving Decreases
How to Renew Evangelistic Growth in Your Church
How to Adjust When Church Giving Increases
10 Major Trends for Churches in 2017
2016: A Look Back at Church Trends
How to Kill an Ineffective Program or Ministry
Multi-Site Church for the Rest of Us, featuring Jimmy Scroggins
The Painful Reality of Church Bully Cartels
Six Surprising Insights Regarding Church Budgets and Salaries
Invite Your One featuring Jeremy Roberts
Worship and the Next Generation featuring Mark Hall
The Relationship Between a Pastor and Worship Leader featuring Jim Shaddix
The Intersection of Theology and Worship featuring Louie Giglio
Four Qualities of an Effective Worship Leader
8 Causes of Concern for Bible Belt Churches
5 Ways to Stop Decline in a Church
12 Ways to Handle Staff Conflict
8 Signs of a Financially Dying Church
10 Keys to Reaching Unchurched People at Christmas
How to Handle Bad Church Guest Experiences
Why Churches Move from Growth to Maintenance
Church Compensation Trends featuring William Vanderbloemen
Four Commitments Every Church Member Must Make
Multi-Level Marketing in the Church and Other Listener Questions
Pastors and Writing with Jared C. Wilson
Five Reasons to Have Multiple Styles of Worship
Seven Reasons Not to Have Multiple Styles of Worship
Cultural Crisis and the Church, featuring Dr. Albert Mohler
Why Churches Really Aren’t Friendly to Guests
Four Reasons People Are Dropping Out of Church
Why Pastors Shouldn’t be the Only Ones Visiting Members
Discerning Your Call to Ministry, Featuring Dr. Jason Allen
Worship Leading Relationship between the Pastor and Music Leader
Nine Virtual Realities for Churches
Four Models of Dying Churches
Why You Should Consider Not Requiring Office Hours for Ministerial Staff
Tools of the Trade for Pastors and Staff
Why Church Members Choose One Worship Service Over Another
Keys to a Multi-Generational Worship Ministry
Eight Traits of Church Bullies
8 Mistakes to Avoid as a Young Pastor
What Healthy Churches Will Look Like in 10 Years
The Insanity of God featuring Nik and Ruth Ripken
Hospitality, Weddings, Millennials, and Other Listener Questions
Eight Time Saving Solutions for Pastors
What Does a Community-focused Church Look Like?
How Pastors Feel When Church Members Leave
A Podcasting ‘How-to' with Carey Nieuwhof
Pastors and Podcasting, featuring Carey Nieuwhof
The Ongoing Saga of Staff Conflict
5 Keys to Making the Most of a Conference
Eight Key Issues for Pastors Regarding Funerals
Worship as Discipleship, featuring Mike Harland
Nine Key Issues for Pastors Regarding Weddings
Change or Die…The Five Types of Dying Churches
What Defines a Generous Church?
Top Trends and Biggest Mistakes in Pastor Searches, featuring William Vanderbloemen
Nine Ways to Make a Terrible First Impression
The Challenges of Following a Long-term Pastor
How Pastors Should Respond to the Gender Neutral Bathroom Controversy
Doubtful Issues and Church Worship Preferences
What Community Demographics Should a Pastor Know?
Seven Shifts in Church Outreach
Five Reasons for Failure when Leading Change
Why Relational Skills Are Critical to Leadership Success
How Can a Pastor Reverse Negative Sentiments in a Church?
Current Update on Why Pastors Are Quitting
The Disappearance of Choirs
Six Things You Inherit as a New Pastor
Six Areas Where Millennial Pastors Are Asking for Help
How to Respond to Cringeworthy Statements
Six Church Practices That Are Fading
What Is the Best Time for a Worship Service?
Why Church Announcements Cause Problems
Seven Church Facility Trends
Church Outreach: What Has Worked and What Hasn't
Seven Reasons for Optimism in American Churches
How Do I Know if My Church Is Evangelistically Effective?
Why Congregational Singing Is Waning
Pastors, Politics, and Social Media
Online Giving featuring Rich Birch
Nine Ways Gossip Destroys a Church
12 Keys to Making Time When You Have None
Why Churches Struggle with Follow-Up
High Attendance Days and How Best to Use Them
How Churches Can Most Effectively Use Facebook and Twitter
Fixing the "Too Empty or ‘Too Full' Problem in a Church
7 Concerns About Benefits of Pastors and Church Staff
Using Your Church's Facilities More Effectively Throughout the Week
10 Common Frustrations of Pastors
Communicating in Conflict, Staff Reviews, and Other Listener Questions
9 Steps to Small Group Multiplication
Missions Mistakes and Misconceptions
10 Fascinating Facts Regarding Pastor and Church Staff Compensation
What Should a Guest Preacher Be Paid
A Unique Approach to Casting Church Vision
Eight Easter Sunday Planning Tips for Churches
The Six Most Common Ways Ministry Spouses Get Hurt
Nine Ways Churches Waste Money
Why Church Leaders Need a Mentor
The New Marketplace Pastor
Six Warning Signs of Church Dropouts
How Churches Can Pray More Effectively
How to Grow Discipleship in Your Church, featuring Robby Gallaty
Seven Worship Trends to Watch
Trends to Watch for in 2016 (part two)
Trends to Watch for in 2016 (part one)
Healthy Church Trends: A Look Back
12 Megachurch Trends to Watch
Seven Implications of Decentralization in Churches
Nine Reasons Christians Don’t Evangelize
5 Reasons Pastoral Tenure Could Increase
Leadership and the Local Church with John C. Maxwell
The Great Importance of Pastoral Tenure
Six Considerations for Holiday Outreach
Why Churches Choose to Die
Hit and Miss Church Guest Experiences
How to Lead After a Church Split and Other Listener Questions
When You Have to Let a Staff Member Go
Are You Leadership Material?
The Largest 500 Churches in the SBC
Why Pastors Leave a Church
Why Pastors Are Afraid of Revitalization
Why Churches Are Stuck in the Past
How to Increase the Number of Volunteers in Your Church
Transitioning a Senior Adult Church to One Who Reaches all Generations
Evangelism, Outreach, and the Internet
Pastoral Leadership and Missions with David Platt
Overcoming Guest Barriers in the Church
Nine Things a Church Bulletin Must Have
Moving Out of Maintenance Mode
Ten Signs You’re Leading in Maintenance Mode
Nine Relational Evangelism Ideas That Work
Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.
Five Characteristics of Change Leaders in the Church
Age Discrimination and Church Hiring
The Secrets to Getting Guests to Fill Out and Return Info Cards
What’s the Big Deal with Church Committees?
10 Mistakes Pastors Make when Interviewing
War Room and the Power of Prayer featuring Stephen and Alex Kendrick
What Do Pastors Need to Know About Business?
Seven Ideas for Increased Guest Friendliness
Six Major Barriers to Church Growth
Eight Steps to More Effective Discipleship
The Activity Driven Church
Why Women Leave a Church
Financial Giving & Accountability for Members and Staff
Proper Ministerial Attire
How Involved Should a Minister Be in the Community?
The Anatomy of a Sick Church