What Your Church Can Learn from These 4 Presidents

What Your Church Can Learn from These 4 Presidents

This Christmas, I gave and received a great book. Let me introduce it to you if you have not already found it: “Leadership in Turbulent Times” is the latest book by historian and leadership expert Doris Kearns Goodwin. She builds on her earlier books about Abraham...
Are You Hearing Two Ways to Say the Same Thing?

Are You Hearing Two Ways to Say the Same Thing?

Not many people quote Chuck Colson and William Sloane Coffin in the same breath. That is one of the problems in the church today. We draw lines in the sand between liberal and conservative and tend to camp out on one side of the line or the other. However, if we...

5 Keys to Building a Healthier Church

Researchers at Harvard University recently completed a study of the factors that lead to a healthier, longer life. Using lifestyle questionnaires and medical records of 123,000 volunteers, they determined that the presence of five healthy habits in a person’s...

3 Bad Consequences When Your Church Seeks Unity

I like the story of the man from the Northeast who was in the South for a conference. He went to a diner for breakfast and asked for eggs, sausage and toast. As the server brought the order, the man noticed a little white puddle on his plate. “What’s...

3 Ways Stewardship Differs from Philanthropy

There is an old children’s poem that goes like this: “What kind of church would my church be, if all of its members were just like me?” That is a good question to ask ourselves related to the stewardship of our time, talents, treasure and testimony....