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Who Is Adjusting Your Vision?

Managing Change...and Your Personal Vision To say the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our lives is the understatement of the year. Managing...

Hey Worship Leaders: Stop Doing This!

And I Totally Get That It's Not an Easy Gig... Okay, first a disclaimer: Many of the churches we work with use a current worship...

2 Critical Leadership Skills in a Crisis

How Are You Exercising These in Your Church? In the book Elemental Leaders, we identify 4 critical elements every effective leader must...

Covid-19 and the Church

Learnings for Church Leaders from the Coronavirus Pandemic. The Covid-19 virus has turned the world upside down. With hour-by-hour...

Is Your Church Self-Aware?

Over the years I’ve found myself ruminating on why pastors are often reluctant to engage with outside organizational assessors and...

The Black Box Church

Thirty years ago, the church I was a part of began using video. A lot. Our numbers had exploded. We were in a former Baptist church...