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Changes in Church Leadership

By and others ⋅ January 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

What’s Changing, What’s Not The trends that will be impacting your ministry in the year ahead. Reported by Marian Liautaud | posted 1/25/2010 Dave Travis, managing director of Leadership Network, offers his state of the church in America, based on recent research and his own observations looking through the “keyhole” of large churches. Things That […]

SUNDAY CHURCH

By and others ⋅ January 25, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Written by Tom Ehrich Sunday, 10 January 2010 Like many church leaders, I have been grappling with the steady decline of mainline Protestant churches over the past 45 years and trying to determine what we can do about it. It dawned on me that the problem isn’t what we do on Sunday. It’s how that […]

Beauty Tips for Ministers

By and others ⋅ January 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

*Sightings* 1/14/10 The Sacred and the Sartorial — Courtney Wilder At first blush, the blog Beauty Tips for Ministers does not seem like a hotbed of feminist theology of the body. Written primarily, though not exclusively, for women, the blog includes posts on a wide range of topics related to clergy and their professional dress, […]

Oh no, not religion again

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

OH NO – Maddy Prior Go to church? You must be bloody joking Give me the pub with drinking and smoking *** Humourless, straight laced, holier-than-thou Cheerless chapel, pledge and vow *** Church of England, boring empty ritual Vestments set with gold and jewels *** The Pope runs a multinational corporation Bleeds the poor that […]

Tools for personal assessment

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

From a pastor-friend: Some of the tools I have used for personal assessment include: The Cultivating Christian Character online assessment tool at http://www.assess-yourself.org/ The Christian Life Profile is also good. It is a profile you purchase but if you google it you will get some links with downloads that give you the idea. http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-US/Product/ProductDetail.htm?ProdID=com.zondervan.9780310251590&QueryStringSite=Zondervan The […]

101 Motivational Business Quotes

By and others ⋅ January 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

by Neil Patel on December 7, 2009 Running a business is like riding on a roller coaster. Although it is fun and exciting, there will be times when you’ll be scared and feel powerless. During the bad times there isn’t much you can do, other than to keep on pushing forward. So in that spirit, […]

Can introverts lead?

By and others ⋅ November 23, 2009 ⋅ One comment

November 17, 2009 Breaking down stereotypes by Adam S. McHugh As the senior pastor and I walked into the church office, we were greeted by two silver-haired women who were there to fold bulletins for the upcoming Sunday. At the sight of the senior pastor, their faces lit up and they quickly interposed themselves between […]

Eugene Peterson

By and others ⋅ November 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Eugene H Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness (Grand Rapids Eerdmans, 1992) In Under the Unpredictable Plant, Eugene Peterson charts the subversive story of Jonah and how it can help pastors develop a spirituality adequate for their calling. He writes with personal honesty and with biblical insight, drawing on decades of […]

Effective Leadership

By and others ⋅ October 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Strong teams have effective leadership Over the years I have consistently noticed that effective leadership plays a huge role in the overall success of work teams. My picture of a leader is like a conductor of a great orchestra. The leader is the one who leads all the individuals in the team to produce a […]

Lausanne Congress 2009

By and others ⋅ October 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Note from Rowland: I was privileged to attend the Manila Conference. Then I would have been 51 – just made it age-wise! See also http://jmm.org.au/articles/9010.htm http://jmm.org.au/articles/9671.htm http://jmm.org.au/articles/19725.htm http://jmm.org.au/articles/19633.htm http://jmm.org.au/articles/12129.htm ***** By Julia Duin The first one was in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. The second was in Manila in 1989. The third will be in Cape […]

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