Maximizing Your Team

Maximizing Your Team

How’s that weekly staff meeting going for you? Church leadership and staff teams get bogged down by the day-to-day grind, but it doesn’t have to be that way.  When vision is established, creating a plan of attack is critical in reaching the big goals, but...
Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence

Boosting Your Emotional Intelligence

Cool. Calm. Collected. Unemotional. For the longest time, seminaries have tried to churn out pastors who embody those words. The assumption is that if we can simply preach the Bible as it is, exegete a text, people will change. This is all that is required to lead a...
Leading Your Church Through Racial Tension

Leading Your Church Through Racial Tension

You have an unprecedented opportunity to let 2020 be the most pivotal year for positive change your church has ever seen. The Internet is filled with memes that joke about how 2020 is one long disaster story. In many ways it’s true. We started the year with an...
Easter Field Report

Easter Field Report

In this special post-Easter episode, Scott Ball & A.J. Mathieu interview three North American pastors to get an Easter Field Report. Hear the wins and challenges of Easter 2020, and learn what’s on the horizon for churches like yours. Be blessed by Scott...
2020 Ministry Trends

2020 Ministry Trends

A new year has begun, and with the new year, it is time to assess what will be different in 2020. The world is changing faster than ever, and churches will need to adapt if they want to reach people for the Kingdom. We’ve compiled ten trends that will drive...
How to End Ministries without Ending Yours

How to End Ministries without Ending Yours

If your church is going to be healthy, you’re going to have to do a few, fundament things well. Declining churches have accumulated unnecessary and ineffective programs, events, and ministries. Over the decades, your church has said, “Yes,” to lots...