The perfect worship service doesn’t exi…

or maybe it does?

Think about it… What would make for a perfect worship service? A perfect Sunday?

What would happen? What wouldn’t happen?

If there’s a conversation you and your leadership team should have within the next...

Every church has its share of difficult people. 

They’re the people who are perpetually dismissive or resistant to what seems like everything you and your team attempt to do. 

But you have to hand it to them—they’re consistent. Consistently critical and dissatisfied...

It was a Monday. I was working from home. But instead of working, I was uncontrollably crying. I felt betrayed. I felt alone. I felt like a punching bag covered in patches of duct tape, struggling to take another hit.

In that season, it felt like the hits kept coming from people in the church....

Over the years, I’ve received hundreds of emails from preachers from all over the world. In these emails, they’ve shared with me their struggles/challenges/problems when it comes to preaching.

And after reading these hundreds of emails, I’ve noticed some very common patterns (no...

Summer is a great time of the year to make extra effort to reach out to your community as a church.

With school out and the weather being warm, summertime lends itself to some unique opportunities to connect with people outside your church.

11 Summer Outreach Ideas for Your Church

1. Social media...

A lot of people listen to Jon Tyson's sermons.

I recently featured his preaching on the first installment of Preacher Lab – a breakdown of a preacher's sermon so that we can learn lessons for our own preaching.

Here are 4 things I noticed from his preaching

→ He displays a deep burden...

According to a new study released by CovidReligionResearch.org, only 33% of churches were seeing some or much growth in 2023.

30% were experiencing much decline. 24% were experiencing some decline. And 12% were classified as stable. Or what I would call plateaued. 

To say it more succinctly,...

In case you haven't heard, a lot went down recently at the 2024 Stronger Men's Conference between Mark Driscoll and John Lindell, the lead pastor of James River Church and the leader of the conference.

As I saw what happened, I felt it important to use this as a teaching moment.

So, below you'll...

Whenever you preach a sermon, you want people to respond to what God is telling them. You want them to take a step in their walk with God.

When you labor in prayer over the week in preparation, you ask God to work in the hearts of those who will hear the message. You want them to:

• Believe
• Repent...

Meet John. He’s been laboring as a pastor for almost seven years. He has worked at a couple different churches but has run into the same roadblocks at both.

He’s starting to recognize that he needs to make some shifts in the way he operates as a pastor. He wants to lead and serve with...

Do you want to write better sermons week in and week out?

I know, that’s kind of a silly question. Of course you do. Who wouldn’t?

You and I both know how important preaching is to the mission of the church. After all, Jesus was a preacher—a masterful one.

But that doesn’t...