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Leaders like you read our blog on a weekly basis. Read each post, download the audio version, or have the site read it to you. I want to make sure you understand this: I am here to serve you, and that's the goal of this blog. Here you'll find helpful, contextual posts that relate directly to the current climate of ministry and marketing. If there are more ways I can serve you or you think there is an article that could use some more depth, please reach out and let me know.
How to Make Your Stories Significant
The Christian life is all about transformation. It’s a beautiful story about how God can take anyone and make them new again. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you’ve done, the regret or guilt you have from your past that is holding you back, God can make you new again. New, and different. Because…
Three Ways to Higher Small Group Engagement
“Walking into this week’s Small Group, I was dragging. Ugh. I had way too many things going on, work was insanely stressful, the kids were bouncing around from event to event, and the wife and I have been at each other’s throat. That and the fact that every Small Group is like pulling teeth, trying to…
A New Marketing Thought Process
Marketing matters, but it’s not everything. The old way of doing things is simple: find a target audience, come up with the best bang for your buck strategy to reach that demographic, and go out and get them. It works, but really, it doesn’t. At least not in the long run. The old marketing thought process doesn’t…
Our Top Tools: Redbooth
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” – Albert Einstein Do you lead from a place of immense creativity or extreme disorganization? Does your desk cause you to stress or is it just something that tends to be cluttered and you are alright…
Our Top Tools: Elvanto
They say summer is a slow season for churches. But the churches we’re talking to say whoever “they” are, are absolutely crazy. Summer is a blitz, a fire in the pan experience between serving and worshiping, and preparing for a new season ahead. It’s that new season ahead that we want to speak to you…
The Church is Colorful
The kid’s jaw flew open. His head shook in dismay. He sighed and gasped and had the most puzzle look on his face. Michael Brown. Ferguson. The reporter tried their best to describe the scene from all angles, but the kid got it. He saw what happened. He didn’t need context. He didn’t need an…
"You have nothing to prove and no one to impress." - Larry.
I talk about margin a lot. I think some of it comes back to how I was raised, but most of it is how I went through ministry stressed and just plain tired for so long. So I learned how to say no and set proper priorities, learned to value the right thing in life, and really, learned to breathe easier. Maybe you're there now, and maybe, just maybe, you need some margin in your finances, relationships, time, and life too.
