Author: Patrick Bradley
Episode 185: Training Your Core Team
by Daniel Im: How should you train your core team? This week we are giving you a preview of our Developing a Core Team Course. This week we have focused on building a solid core team as you prepare to plant a church or campus. In today’s episode, Pastor Ronnie Parrott talks about training […]
The False Promise of Discipleship: The Human Paradigm
By Bill Hull and Brandon Cook: This is part of The False Promise of Discipleship blog series from The Bonhoeffer Project. In John chapter 3, we read the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus, a leading Jewish figure. Nicodemus comes to Jesus under the cover of night, apparently worried about who […]
20+ Downloadable Graphics Your Church Can Use to Promote Baptisms
by Rich Birch: Baptism is a vitally important part of discipleship process for the people at your church. It’s also an amazing time in the life of your church. Make sure that you are leveraging this opportunity in the life of your church to communicate about all the life change […]
Do We Need a Church Website Privacy Policy?
by Patrick Bradley: A church website privacy policy would be a page on your website that explains how your church collects personal information and how you use it. Even an initial site for your supporters might be set up to collect information. Most church websites offer some or all of […]
Never Waste a Good Sermon! 6 Ways to Re-Purpose Your Message Content
by Brandon A. Cox: Do you ever get that post-sermon, anti-climactic feeling that all of your research, all of your writing, all of your preparation just got burned up in a single half-hour shot? It would be far more ideal to leave church on Sunday believing there was still much […]
My Top 5 Church Planting Lessons
By Shawn Lovejoy: As I reflect on my church planting experience at Mountain Lake Church in Cumming, Georgia, I am often amazed at how much God did and how much I learned through the process – and the ups and downs! As I reflect on everything that’s happened in my […]
Jon Morrison on Being a Millennial Reaching Millennials
by Rich Birch: Welcome back to this week’s unSeminary podcast. Thanks so much for joining us today as we talk with a friend of mine, Jon Morrison, who is an author and a blogger. He is a different kind of guest from our usual visitors and he is here today […]
Eight Major Changes in Churches the Past Ten Years and Other Articles Church Leaders Should Read
By Dave Travis: Here’s a collection of interesting, thought-provoking articles from around the web from recent weeks. For more links, check out our Flipboard magazines: Leadership Network Today, Leadership Network Deep Trends, and Ideas to Implementation to Impact, where we curate the best in innovative ideas for church leaders. 1. Eight Major Changes […]
Episode 181: Recruiting a Launch Team
by Daniel Im and Todd Adkins: How do you recruit a solid launch team? This week you will be getting a preview of our Developing a Core Team Course. This is day one of five where the focus will be on building a solid core team as you prepare to plant […]
Every Church Staff Team Needs a Little Bit of Friction
by Brandon A. Cox: Eliminate friction!! That’s the goal most of us have when it comes to leading a team, or a church, or a company. But what if friction is actually the key to getting things moving in the right direction. I’m currently in the thick of learning from Todd […]