Blog readership for September increased by over 25% – mainly thanks to your links and some positive press in the Rick Warren Ministry ToolBox. Here’s the most popular posts for the month (in case you missed them): The “One Month” Perspective Successful Church Planters Must Be Able to Recruit a Worship Leader Where There’s Slack There’s Lack – Part 8 … Read More
Monday Proflections – September 29, 2008
Here’s what’s happening with Church Leader Insights and me this week that may be of interest to you: Monday – I’ll be in the Journey office all morning and then I’m flying to Atlanta. I’ll be doing a recording the Catalyst folks tonight. Are you going to Catalyst next week? If so, I’d like to buy you dessert on Thursday … Read More
Sunday Salsa and Worship Arts Orientation
Today I’m teaching live in Manhattan and its NOT being used as a video message in Brooklyn or Jersey City so it gives me a chance to break out of the screen box for something a bit more creative. We call it a Salsa Service because of the way the sermon is split into multiple parts by music, testimony, video, … Read More
How to Always Win – a Saturday Quote from the Babe
This past week we saw the ‘official farewell’ to the ‘House that Ruth’ built here in NYC (the final game at Yankee Stadium for those of you, like me, who are sports-challenged), so I thought I’d share this quote: “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up” — Babe Ruth
Communication Card Download
You asked for it…here’s the latest version of the Communication Card we use at The Journey. We call it a Connection Card (I stole that term from my good friend Jimmy Britt a few years ago) because it seems a little softer. Two versions for you to download (just right click and choose Save As – includes both front and … Read More
Launch Conference in Atlanta – Sign up and Save
Bob Franquiz, who is co-teaching with me the Launch Conference in Atlanta, just posted this on his blog and I couldn’t have said it better myself, so I’ll just quote him: “Just an FYI to those thinking of coming to the Launch Conference in Atlanta on September 30th from 9AM-4PM. The price for the conference goes up on Sunday, so … Read More
Salsa Service on Sunday
On Sunday we are doing a Salsa service at The Journey. No, I’m not talking about the style of dance or the refreshment selections, I’m talking about the style of worship order. If you’ve listed to my Worship Planning Seminar, then you know that we have three different types of worship orders that we use regularly to give variety to … Read More
What’s the Best Launch Date for a New Church?
This is a question we recently received through the Ask Nelson button on the right: What’s the Best (and Worst) Launch Date for a New Church? Kerrick Thomas, Executive Pastor at The Journey and co-author of Launch: Starting a New Church From Scratch answers it: Here are the top 3 best times to launch a new church: (1) February (usually … Read More
Two Time Management Principles
One of my tele-coaching participants/pastors shared these two time management principles with me in a recent email: 1. Always start the day with God. Just like tithing stretches money, time with God has an amazing way of stretching time! 2. The next day principle. Whenever possible, get through your “to do” list, then do something you’d planned on doing the … Read More
Monday Proflections – September 22, 2008
Here’s what’s happening with Church Leader Insights and me this week that may be of interest to you: Monday – I’m back in the office after being in Southern California for a few days last week. One of the things I’ll be doing today is the follow-up from yesterday’s baptism. Click here to learn how we follow-up on baptisms. I’ll … Read More