I consider it an honor and a tremendous blessing that God has allowed us the opportunity to invest in church leaders each and every day through the ministry of Church Leader Insights. With several thousand pastors in the Church Leader Insights family, you might imagine that I get to hear from a lot of them (and I really enjoy hearing … Read More
Can We Talk About Preaching Next Week? (Free Webinar)
You’re invited to join me next week for one of 3 free webinars I’m leading called “How to Plan Your 2011 Preaching Calendar.” After coaching more than 1,000 pastors over the last few years, I’ve learned that one of the best tools for reducing your stress, maximizing creativity, honoring God and working with the natural patterns of your people is planning your … Read More
Your Preaching Calendar Questions – Open Dates & More
Last week’s “How to Plan Your 2010 Preaching Calendar” Webinars were a great success and I’ve enjoyed hearing from so many of you about how your planning is going. Here are my answers to more of your frequently asked questions. Q: Once I have my preaching calendar together, who should I share it with? Should I share it with other … Read More
Your Preaching Calendar Questions – How Far in Advance Should I Plan and More
Last week’s “How to Plan Your 2010 Preaching Calendar” Webinars were a great success and I’ve enjoyed hearing from so many of you about how your planning is going. I have also received a number of recurring questions that I’d like to address, starting today, here on the blog. Q: How far in advance does the preaching calendar planning process … Read More
Did You Miss the 2010 Preaching Calendar Webinar?
Thanks so much to the almost 2,000 of you who joined me last week to walk through the 2010 calendar in my “How to Plan Your 2010 Preaching Calendar” Webinars. Whether you were able to be a part of the webinars or not, I’m giving you another chance to listen. We have set up a special page where you can … Read More
LAST CHANCE – Free Preaching Calendar Webinars
I can’t wait to get started with my series of 4 “How to Plan Your 2010 Preaching Calendar” Webinars today! The first of the 4 is today, from 1:30 – 2:45pm EST. Then, I’ll be leading 2 tomorrow and 1 final webinar on Thursday. In each of these webinars, I’ll be walking you step-by-step through the 2010 Calendar, pointing out … Read More
FREE Preaching Calendar Webinars (next week)
Planning your preaching calendar in advance is one of the absolute best ways I’ve found to reduce stress and increase creativity as a pastor. And I’m determined to help you implement this practice for 2010! Hopefully, you’ve already seen and downloaded a FREE copy of my “Planning a One Year Preaching Calendar” Resource that I’ve been giving away this week … Read More
Monday Proflections – October 6, 2008
A busy but fun week coming up – here’s what’s happening that may be of interest to you: Monday – I don’t normally sleep in on Monday’s but today is the exception. Kelley and Alexander are away visiting the grandparents and my first meeting isn’t until 10:30am. I’ll be the guy with bed head around the office! Tuesday – Watch … Read More
Co-Teaching A Message
Today I am co-teaching Message # 3 of our Tongue Pierced series with Kerrick. This is the first time we have co-taught together in quite a while, although before we went multi-site we used to do it quite a bit. The #1 question we get about co-teaching is ‘how does it work?‘. This Sunday it works this way: I’m doing … Read More
What Pastors Dream About
I listen to my own sermons. It’s painful, but I do it. I do it because it helps me become a better speaker (late at night it also helps my insomnia). Church Leader insights is about about to release a Sermon Series Kerrick Thomas (our Executive Pastor) and I did at The Journey Church entitled “Fully Engaged: The Power of a … Read More