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- 1. Start a New Habit this New Year
- It's 2022! A brand new year with a fresh start. You have been granted a clean slate and a wondrous "do-over"! What if I told you that there is just one thing you could do in the coming year that would ...
- Created on 05 January 2022
- 2. Kingdom Leadership: Reverse Visioneering
- ... itative and quantitative goals. — Step two is to strategize the growth and development of each of the components. I recommend creating a timeline that corresponds to your vision and set incremental ...
- Created on 13 July 2021
- 3. Why Healthy Churches Are Always Messy
- There are as many definitions of a healthy church as there are people who have attempted to define one. The emphasis on church health often falls on numerical growth, but weekly attendance averages are ...
- Created on 03 March 2021
- 4. 3 Must-Know Tax Benefits for Pastors and Ministers
- Some pastors find themselves saying something along the lines of, "I am so upset that I owe $5,875.00 on my tax return!" Or you may hear another pastor saying how excited they are because they would be ...
- Created on 12 January 2021
- 5. 5 Steps to Lead Strong in 2021
- Welcome to 2021. A few might think, "What's actually different from last week?" A new year is always different. God created life with patterns and rhythms, seasons and days, and newness internally ...
- Created on 08 January 2021
- 6. Rick Warren: 5 More Steps to Set Goals You Can Reach ...
- People only accomplish the goals they plan to accomplish. You probably have big plans to engage your community with the message of Jesus, but you need to back that vision up with tangible, written-down ...
- Created on 20 October 2020
- 7. Rick Warren: 5 Steps to Setting Goals You Can Reach ...
- Research tells us that more people struggle with setting goals than they do accomplishing them. Sitting down and actually thinking about what God wants us to do with our lives is often the hardest part. ...
- Created on 13 October 2020
- 8. Practical Keys to Move You Closer to Your Big Goals ...
- ... s more than they plan their own lives. This is a huge deal for Christians who want to be in leadership or business. Success of any kind in these two areas hinges on how well you cast vision and set goal ...
- Created on 06 March 2020
- 9. Why You Should Spend These 1,440 Precious 'Pieces of Gold' Wisely
- When the calendar turns its page to a brand-new year, we all believe with grand anticipation that it is time to begin again. Just as the calendar presents a blank page, we hope that a blank page is what ...
- Created on 02 January 2020
- 10. 8 Positive Signs I've Seen in Churches in 2019
- It's easy to "beat up" the North American church, and I confess that I sometimes fall into that rut. For that reason, I want to move toward the end of 2019 by focusing on these positive signs I've seen ...
- Created on 27 December 2019
- 11. Why You Shouldn't Immediately Act on Your Next Great Idea
- When I think I have a great idea I do the same thing every time—I sleep on it! If you read this blog regularly, surely you have learned that I'm a risk-taker by nature. I love to encourage big dreams and ...
- Created on 18 November 2019
- 12. When Simple Church Becomes a Complex Problem
- It has been 15 years since a young doctoral student named Eric Geiger came into my office to share with me his research on churches that had clearly defined processes of discipleship. I saw his genius ...
- Created on 11 November 2019
- 13. How to Raise Money for Your Ministry
- Do you know how to raise money for God's work? I went through seminary and 11 years of Bible college and completed my doctoral program without ever taking a class on raising money. Although we need to ...
- Created on 24 September 2019
- 14. The Wealth Codes Coach: Teaching God's Way of Doing Business
- As a fourth-generation investment banker, Rob Saunders was born into a life of exceptional opportunities. Considering his family connections in Memphis, Tennessee, where he grew up and gained his Southern ...
- Created on 10 September 2019
- 15. This Is Why You Can't Seem to Mend Your Broken Relationship
- "[God] has restored our relationship with him through Christ, and has given us this ministry of restoring relationships. In other words, God was using Christ to restore his relationship with humanity. ...
- Created on 18 July 2019
- 16. Try This Faith-Filling Exercise So You Can Keep Your New Resolutions
- This is the time of year that we all do it; every single one of us is guilty. We make enormous resolutions, only to stumble and fall by the second or third week of the infant year. Generally, when I resolve ...
- Created on 03 January 2019
- 17. Why You Should Stop Focusing on Goals This Year ...
- I don't know about you, but I struggle with goals. Sometimes I set them and forget about them. More often than not, I never meet them. I feel like a failure most of the time. Of course, the problem isn ...
- Created on 27 December 2018
- 18. Your Proverbs 29:18 Vision for the Year Ahead
- ... d what could be achieved during this New Year. Like a flock of birds, goals take flight, fueled by imaginations and a much-needed cup of caffeine. Optimal health, weight loss, career advancement, educati ...
- Created on 05 January 2018
- 19. 3 Clear Steps to Set Achievable Goals ...
- ... You'll have to make some changes in what you are currently doing. Call them goals if you want. That seems to be a more popular word these days, but decide a few areas in which you want to see improvemen ...
- Created on 04 January 2018
- 20. Why Your Goals Are Too Small ...
- ... t chief city of the empire to the known western world at the time. As I listened to Pastor Rick, I came to some harsh realizations about my own goal-setting practices: My goals weren't big enough. As R ...
- Created on 29 December 2017