If I were the Devil…

Greg Stier from Dare2Share has a an article on SermonCentral titled “If I were the Devil… this is how I would attack pastors.” I think some of it is sort of sensationalistic, but here are a few of the things that were pertinent to me:
If I were the devil I’d get pastors to build great big [...]

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Comeback Churches – Worship and Preaching Matters

Chapter 4 – Worship and Preaching Matters
This chapter was pretty basic and blah. The gist of the chapter is this: worship and preaching matter. Comeback churches don’t mount a comeback without changing the way they worship and without a renewed spiritual energy in preaching (but the chapter was much more about worship). While the authors [...]

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Leave a Trail

Living on a tight budget, impulse buying is generally frowned upon (by me). But when we were at a gift store the other day and my wife approached me with her darling butterfly eyes and asked, “Can I buy this for you?” I had to say yes.
It’s a sort of rustic looking plaque with a [...]

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Comeback Churches – Three Faith Factors

Chapter Three – Three Faith Factors
“Comeback leaders know that change takes place as the church is renewed spiritually.” This has been my strategy from the outset. When I first came here several people were constantly in my ear about doing this and doing that – making all these changes – and I had to put [...]

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Comeback Churches – Rising with Leadership

Chapter 2 – Rising with Leadership
According to the research, leadership was the number-one factor associated with comeback churches. Indeed, everything either rises or falls with leadership (or the lack thereof). Good leaders help their churches see that their real problems are not ones of style, preference, traditions, or age, but are at their root spiritual. [...]

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Becoming a Comeback Church

I started reading Comeback Churches yesterday. I have been at CBC for a little over 16 months now and I think we have made tremendous strides. Indeed we are a church that is coming back, but we are not there yet. I feel like we’re sitting just below the summit and we need a little extra [...]

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The Kool Kids Klub

Over the years I’ve received several invitations to join Gmail but I’ve always resisted – partly because I’ve been perfectly happy with Yahoo and my multiple other email addresses, and partly just to resist. I’ve even had a Google account for about a year now, but I just never bothered with the email service. But [...]

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Church Planting Blog

Mark Bjorlo from the Journey North has started a church planting blog for North/Central Minnesota that I will be contributing to: Planting Partners.

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Being an Exemplary Pastor

I’m having one of those pensive days. It’s my first day back from vacation (first with family then with friends) and after 8 days of constant company I need a day to get recharged and prepare for the road ahead. So today I’ve been spending a lot of time in prayer, reflection and reading the [...]

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Confidence & Humility

As I grow and develop as a leader I am learning that intuition is perhaps my strongest leadership trait. With each passing situation I grow more and more confident in trusting that gut feeling which I consider to be the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I’m sure there have been times, but I honestly can’t remember [...]

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