Category: Church Management
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Have you found a helpful messenger?
Thom Rainer posted on his blog today insights about the “Quest for Helpful Messengers.” He hit the nail dead on with his post. As leaders, we do often devote our attention to people from two camps. We have the first camp of people that feed our ego and continually praise our efforts. These people in…
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A Tax Credit for Churches?
The health Care Reform law has some provisions for churches to take advantage of a tax credit for health care premiums paid to employees. There are several contingencies required and it definately benefits smaller organizations but the video is worth watching. The credit is payable in cash since churches generally do not pay taxes. Check…
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Google Apps For Your Church
By: Josh Henry, Managing Partner In my years of working with churches to help with their IT and communication needs, I have come across some great resources. For many years, the options available to help churches from an IT standpoint where very costly. Not only where they expensive to purchase and deploy, but they also…
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RT Ed Stetzer – Top Issues Church Planters Face Reports
See the post from Ed Stetzer’s blog about the top issues that church planters face. Ed Stetzer – Top Issues Church Planters Face Reports.
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Aware of But Not Focused on Church Numbers
A growing trend among evangelical pastors is to focus on their attendance numbers. Many have even joked about pastoral counting, which basically means that pastors inflate numbers to make their ministry look larger. We all know that our society has become enthralled with the notion that bigger is better. Unfortunately, in ministry we have also…
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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…
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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,…
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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. …
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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…
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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? …