Author: Josh Henry

  • Your Church Blog: Can Social Media Get a Church Sued?

    Your Church Blog: Can Social Media Get a Church Sued?. Recent incidents involving alleged misuses of social media in both the public and private sectors have government officials and business executives scrambling to implement social media policies for employees. Church leaders should take the opportunity to do the same before a situation arises, casting negative…

  • Taking Risks for God

    Joe Lawson, DOM for the Rehohoboth Baptist Assocation preached at Bethel Baptist Church yesterday about truly stretching your faith to expect God to do something BIG!  So many times we sit comfortably with our faith.  We know God, we trust God, but we don’t ask God to do the extraordinary.  I heard a quote on the…

  • churches and ‘the cloud’

    I recently read this post by Ed Stetzer about churches taking advantage of recent updates to technology.  How is your church taking advantage of what is available today? http://www.edstetzer.com/2011/03/churches-and-the-cloud.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Edstetzercom+(EdStetzer.com) What steps is your church taking to utilize technology to make your ministries more effective?  Do you still have one computer in the secretary’s office that…

  • Eyes Forward – Ministry Lusting Day 4

    By Stephen Boster As a youth in Augusta, Georgia, a summer staple involved a trip to a Georgian or South Carolinian beach.  Imagine pubescence at its finest as young man.  As we parked the bus and began walking over the sand hill to the beach and open waves, I distinctly remember the youth pastor saying,…

  • Ministry Lust Day 3 … Context Is King

    By Stephen Boster – Last spring, I had the opportunity to teach New Testament at Park University in Parkville, MO, a great school with great folks.  As I taught, a used a certain phrase in every class period – Context is King, stressing the importance of reading the scriptures and understanding them in their context. …

  • Ministry Pornography???

    In the previous blog entry, I made mention of the danger of Ministry Pornography, defined as lusting after other ministries and taking my eyes of the context of where God has me serving. For the past eight years, I have been serving at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in the Kansas City, MO area.  I first…

  • Ministry Lusting – Day 1 Into the Field

    For the next few days, we’ll be posting articles from a friend of ours, Stephen Boster, KCI Campus Pastor for Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in Kansas City, MO.  Stephen released a post a few months ago that got me thinking, do we as pastors fall victim to ‘lusting’ after other ministries?  Take a few minutes…

  • M11 Conference

    We just got back from the M11 conference for the Nazarene church.  We really enjoyed our time there and made some great connections with churches and leaders.  Really looking forward to what God has in store from those relationships formed.

  • Are you tracking healthy giving in your church?

    We’ve been doing a lot of research recently about increasing your churches giving base.  Let’s face it, money is a difficult topic to bring up in church, yet it is also one of the most talked about subjects in the Bible.  Why is it that we have so much trouble talking about money in church? …

  • Churches have websites but many aren’t utilizing them, LifeWay survey finds By David Roach

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) | Though most churches have a website, there is a divide between congregations that use their sites only for one-way communication and those that maximize their online presence with interactive technology. That is the finding of a new LifeWay Research study sponsored by Axletree Media, one of LifeWay’s partners in its Digital…