Everyone involved in church leadership knows Easter is the biggest Sunday of the year. However, I think many churches make a HUGE mistake this time of year. Many churches put on big events pre-Easter. These gatherings inflatables, cookouts, Easter egg hunts, and egg drops. These events often create a big splash with high visibility and […]
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The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of March 7th
Easter is coming! I do not have to tell any Christian leader this. No better time exists to impact those far from God than the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. Therefore, many of the posts in this week’s Top 10 list are critical to your ministry’s success. Many deal with maximizing the opportunities to […]
The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of March 30th About Easter
Easter is the confirmation and foundation of everything we believe as Christians. It is because Jesus rose from the grave we have the authority, confidence, meaning and context to live the Christian life. The following are The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of March 30th About Easter. What Did Jesus Suffer? And Why? […]
The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of April 14th
Yesterday I was getting a haircut and asked the stylist, “What do you have planned for Easter?” The following is a portion of the conversation which followed: “A lot. Easter is my favorite holiday.” “Really. Why is that?” “Because Easter is the holiday of second chances. It is the holiday when things are made new. […]
What Churches Can Do To Ensure Visitors Return The Sunday After Easter
Troy Page recently noted on TonyMorganLive.com, “Remember that the win is not how many people show up for Easter – it’s how many people come back. Shoot for 75% of your Easter crowd.” This morning I was sitting in our church parking lot waiting on my daughter to get out of her high school small group. Waiting […]
10 Leadership Lessons From Louie Giglio, Chris Tomlin And The Passion Good Friday Service
On Friday, March 29th my family joined approximately 12,000 of our closest friends and attended the Passion Good Friday Service in Atlanta, GA. Led by Louie and Shelley Giglio, Chris Tomlin, Kristian Stanfill and many more, Passion is a worldwide movement that brings glory to Jesus and is committed to ending global slavery through its End […]
The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of March 25th
The following are the Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of March 25th. Several of these posts deal with the subject of Easter and will challenge you greatly as a Christian leader. I also want to thank Brandon Cox, an incredible pastor and blogger that everyone should read, for suggesting two of the […]
10 Things Leaders Should Give Up During Lent
Lent begins on Wednesday, February 13th and will continue though Saturday, March 30th. For those of you unfamiliar with Lent, it is the 40 weekdays before Easter observed in some Christian churches as a period of prayer, penance, fasting, and self-denial. This period, starting on Ash Wednesday in Western churches, commemorates the 40 days that Jesus Christ spent […]
One Huge Easter Leadership Lesson
I’m a guy. I love action movies. Here’s what all these movies have in common: The hero faces a formidable opponent. The hero cares about and is rescuing someone in distress. The hero has to overcome tremendous odds. The hero is victorious in the end. When I look at Jesus Christ, you have to admit he is the greatest hero […]
15 Good Friday Leadership Lessons
There are times when you write a post about a subject that you are completely inadequate to address. Discussing the implications of Good Friday and the price Jesus paid for our sins is one of those times. Frankly, all the books ever written (Bible excluded) collectively only scratch the meaning of the crucifixion. In that light, […]