Add These to Your Reading List: Top 15 Best Books for Church Leaders (Part 5)

The single greatest way you can grow as a leader in 2025 is to read books. As a fellow pastor, I’d like to save you time and focus your attention where it needs to be for maximum growth and development. We’re wrapping up our our series on my top 15 best books for church leaders, narrowed down from hundreds of books … Read More


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How to Create Urgency for Effective Personal Evangelism (Part 2 of a 3-Part Series)

This week we’ve been looking at the power of personal evangelism — the act of a person sharing the gospel with another — and how it’s the most effective way to bring people to your church. If you missed Part 1, you can catch up right here. We introduced a proven equation for effectiveness: Tools + Training + Timeliness = … Read More


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Your Reading Plan for 2025: Top 15 Best Books for Church Leaders (Part 3)

The single greatest way you can grow as a leader in 2025 is to read books. As a fellow pastor, I’d like to save you time and focus your attention where it needs to be for maximum growth and development. We’re continuing our series as I count down my top 15 best books for church leaders, narrowed down from hundreds of … Read More


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Grow in 2025 Through Reading: Top 15 Best Books for Church Leaders (Part 1)

The single greatest way you can grow as a leader in 2025 is to read books. Books will help you far more than your newsfeed on Facebook! Books have the ability to expand you and your ministry in unique ways. As a fellow pastor, I’d like to save you time and focus your attention where it needs to be for … Read More


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Your New FREE Reading List: Best Books of 2024 for Church Leaders

Like so many pastors, you probably have a goal to read a lot more books this coming year (well, at least I hope you do because it’s a fact, leaders are readers!). So I don’t want you to waste another minute searching on Amazon to figure out what to read next…I’ve done the work for you. In the midst of … Read More


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$2 Audible Sale on My Book, The New You (2 Days Only!)

Audible members, right now you save 87% on the audiobook of my best-seller, The New You: A Guide to Better Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Wellness. For 2 days only, you can pick it up for just $2!  Or you can sign up for a new Audible membership and get access under a free or 99 cent trial option today.  … Read More


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Free Book for Pastors on Growing Givers in Your Church

Have some big news today… I can’t believe it — we found a half case of my ultimate how-to book on growing givers, Maximize. Newly revised & updated. These books won’t do any good for the Kingdom in storage so here’s the plan…since we didn’t have to pay for these (at least not recently), you don’t either! I’d like to get you … Read More


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FREE Webinar Thursday – How to lean into God’s strength to lead your church

Hey, you’re invited to join me and Dr. Ken Boa this Thursday for a FREE 90-min online training: LEADING IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT: THE 12 MINISTRIES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THIS Thursday, August 22 @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET Space is limited, click here to save your spot! Have you ever done a deep dive into the myriad … Read More


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Mental & emotional health strategies for pastors – don’t miss your FREE download

For us pastors, mental health is still a critically underserved area of our overall health. When time seems short and stressful demands are growing, it may seem easiest to push your health and self-care needs to the bottom of the list — but doing this can eventually catch up with you! So I want to make it easier for you … Read More


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$5 sale on my new book on how to secure 100% adult participation in your Small Groups

Activate: An Entirely New Approach to Small Groups – Revised & Expanded https://t.co/mELoM9GflC Drawing from the startling success of small groups at The Journey Church, Kerrick Thomas and I debunk the myths, set the record straight, and show how church leaders can implement a healthy small group ministry that gets the maximum number of people involved and solves many of … Read More


Nelson SearcyBooks, Church Growth, Church Systems, Small Groups