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Boating Fiasco Follow Up

3 Ways to Get Your Ministry Shipshape . . . I’m a sucker for a fixer-upper. That weakness may explain […]

Or, Healing Churches with Painful Histories . . . Never buy a boat on a rainy day! That’s my new

Why it’s important to look back before leading forward . . . What’s the first thing you do when you

Or, Three Questions Every Church Planter Should Ask . . . I recently became a grandparent. (Woohoo!) While we were

How We Learn to Live with the Erosion of God’s Blessing . . . Drip . . . drip .

Let me tell you the story of a church with one of the ugliest steeples you would ever want to

5 Threats to Transparency in Churches . . . I once owned a vehicle prone to backfiring, not something you

“This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and rejection; for children have come to birth and there is no

And What That Means to Leaders . . . “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes

10 Questions Leaders Must Ask . . . These days, parents who provide corrective discipline to their children raise eyebrows,

I recently stumbled upon an article by Tom Rainer titled “9 Traits of Mean Churches.” Tom should know. He’s a

Finding the Right Tool to Fix Your Church . . . There have been lots of tools offered to pastors

3 Questions to Diagnose Congregational Pain . . . I’ve learned my lesson. Never go on a website like WebMD

When a Large Church is No Longer a Blessing . . . Recently a very large, multi-site church had its

Want to know the process churches go through as they work to heal their congregations? Well here is what we

What are the best practices for cultivating a healthy church? If I had to boil it down to 10 ways

Learning to listen to Jesus as a Church . . . Have you ever come out on the losing side

3 Signs Your Church Needs to Call a “Time Out” . . . “But Martha was distracted with all her

If you have read my book Body Aches, you will know I am a firm believer in an approach to

Back when I worked in sales, I read a book called Credibility by James Kouzes and Barry Posner. What they