Last week, in the second of this four-part series, I shared the first Advanced Strategic Concept, “Kaizen”. (A strategic concept can be thought of as a “force multiplier” for church growth and health.) Advanced Strategic Concept #2: “Scenario Planning” Definition: Develop a written scenario action plan for the key potentialities that could impact your church or life. For example, you could … Read More
Multiply Your Impact Strategically (Part 2 of 4)
In last week’s blog post, I introduced the idea of implementing strategic concepts, which is a short-hand way of thinking of bigger ideas. It’s a shortcut that doesn’t short-cut the results. There are at least 10 of these strategic concepts that I regularly refer to, but we’ll unpack just a couple of these in this series. Advanced Strategic Concept #1: “Kaizen” … Read More
Multiply Your Impact Strategically (Part 1 of 4)
You may be surprised at how many strategic principles you can extract from business, philosophy, history, and even straight out of the Bible. These are strategic concepts to help you get from where you are to where God wants you to be. There are at least 10 of these strategic concepts that I regularly refer to, but we’ll unpack just … Read More
The Principle of Spiritual Readiness
With Easter just around the corner, I want to encourage you to think strategically to prepare for God to send you people who need to know Him. After years of doing crusades, the Billy Graham Association was able to predict, with astonishing accuracy, how many people will come forward for prayer on any given night. How? Because the number always … Read More
FREE Year End Webinar Ends Today – Spots still available!
I still have space available for my ALL NEW online event, “The Year End Webinar: 21 Questions to Wrap Up This Year and Prepare for a Great 2017.” It’s FREE just for Senior Pastors and TODAY is the LAST DAY this event will be running! But don’t delay – space is limited and there are only two available times left … Read More
FREE Year End Webinar Starts Today – Spots still available!
I still have space available for my ALL NEW online event, “The Year End Webinar: 21 Questions to Wrap Up This Year and Prepare for a Great 2017.” It’s FREE just for Senior Pastors and the first one is TODAY! But don’t delay – space is limited and this is the only week this event is running! I don’t want … Read More
First one’s today – My ALL NEW 2017 Preaching Calendar Webinar – Spots still available!
I still have space available for my ALL NEW “Planning Your 2017 Preaching Calendar” online event – and the first one is TODAY! But don’t delay – space is limited and this is the only week this event is running! I don’t want you to miss out on this valuable training that will have an exponential impact on all of … Read More
You’re Invited! NEW 2017 Preaching Calendar Webinar (+ bonuses!)
A few weeks ago at The Journey, we had a week-long planning retreat with all of our teaching pastors and our worship pastors from our various campuses. At the end of the planning session, we walked away with a preaching calendar. Out of that planning, literally and somewhat surprisingly, we had all the titles for all our series next year … Read More
10 Public Speaking Tips from Charles Spurgeon
Today’s guest post comes to us from Christian George for The Spurgeon Center. How did the “Prince of Preachers” master the art of public speaking? Here are ten tips from Spurgeon’s lecture “On the Voice” (Lectures to My Students 11:117-135). 1. Posture Up! “Do not speak with your hands in your waistcoat pockets so as to contract your lungs, but … Read More
Reinventing the All Staff Meeting
This is Kerrick Thomas – and for the last 12 years I’ve served alongside of Nelson Searcy as Executive Pastor of The Journey Church. I’m guest blogging today and would like to talk to you about the power of the All Staff Meeting. Every week in churches across America, staff members sludge off into the weekly staff meeting, dreading the monotony … Read More