How Rick Warren’s Health Crisis Can Help Your Church
Today, I received an e-mail letter from pastor Rick Warren. He has experienced levels of pain requiring him to look into both heart and stroke related possibilities. (Thank God that everything is fine...
View ArticleSeven Steps to Maximize Your #Nines2012 Experience
Today is the second day of the free, online church leadership conference call The NINES, by Leadership Network. I highly recommend that you check it out. 1) Carve out as much time as possible to watch...
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Announcing SUMS: A Free Book Summary Tool I Have Wanted to Give Church...
For years I have dreamed of providing a best of class and totally free book summary service to church leaders. Now its time! And it’s called SUMS. Imagine getting 26 summaries a year absolutely free!...
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The 3 Branding Strategies for Churches
In 2004 the marketing guru David Aaker, published a book entitled Brand Portfolio Strategy, in which he describes a tool called a “Brand Relationship Spectrum” to help simplify the world of brands...
View ArticleChurch Unique Snapshot: The Vision Frame Video of St. Andrews Presbyterian...
Related posts:Church Unique Snapshot: The Vision Frame of Max Lucado and Randy Frazee Church Unique Snapshot: The Vision Frame of “the Church” in Madison, Wisconsin Identity Shapes Activity: A Church...
View Article“What I Wish Someone Had Told Me:” Pastors of the 100 Fastest Growing...
Every year, Outreach Magazine provides a profile of the 100 Fastest-growing churches in the country. This year, they had a few interview spots entitled, “What I wish someone told me.” What really...
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How Many Ministry Logos Should Your Church Have? – 7 Key Guidelines for...
This second post in a church communications series, will make more sense if you read the first, The 3 Branding Strategies for Churches It’s unbelievable how quickly churches fragment their message....
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Kirche Einzigartig [Bildlichen Zusammenfassung] – A Free Vision Resource for...
Bob Adams, our VisionRoom curator, just loaded up a tool that my friend ND Strupler had made when we did some training for ICF church planters in Zurich. it’s the Church Unique Visual Summary...
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A Simple, Easy Exercise to Create Your Top Blog Post Titles in 2013
You’re a blogger and I’m blogger and we all want to create great content. On a flight from LA to Houston this week, I spent about 15 minutes and wrote down more great blog titles in one, short setting...
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The Four Stages of Visionary Leadership
I have reflected over a decade on the question of how visionaries develop. These are some initial thoughts that I want to share with blog readers as I think out loud a bit. I would really appreciate...
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Church Unique Snapshot for North Point Community Church: How Andy Stanley...
Every great leader is relentless at unpacking the five irreducible questions of clarity. I use a Vision Frame as a teaching and communication tool to help leaders continually keep clarity before them...
View ArticleNow Every Church Leader Can Have a Vision Room…
Vision Room Overview from Auxano on Vimeo. Related posts:10 Ways to Be a More Strategic Church Leader 100% Church Staff Retention from 3 to 90 28 Vision-based Competencies for Church Staff and Leader...
View ArticleEpic Quotes on Discipleship & Influence from Prof Howard Hendricks (1924-2013)
Prof died today but his ministry continues to expand through the lives of over 13,000 students that were impacted over his 60 years of teaching at Dallas Theological Seminary. While working on a...
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7 Kinds of Stories Every Church Leader Should Master
All ministry is communication intensive. It follows that story-telling and understanding the nuances of story will help any leader in the daily ebb and flow of communication. Use these story types to...
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3 Kinds of Weak Vision that Entice Church Leaders
Warning: This post will challenge some of your assumptions about vision in the church. Across the North American church landscape this year, many pastors will articulate a vision and compel people...
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Vision Quotes from Bill Hybels Global Leadership Summit 2013
Vision is a picture of the future that creates passion in people. God didn’t make you a leader so that you could merely reside in a position, but God made you a leader to move people from here to...
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10 Rules of Raw that will Make Your Church More Relevant
Raw is the best way to articulate the new relevance of church. Keep in mind that the term itself has varied definitions, most of which are helpful in describing mindset of church leaders that are...
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10 Rules of Raw Part Two: How to Reach 20 Somethings (with Illustrations from...
If you have not seed the first part of this series, check out the explanation and illustration of the first five Rules of Raw. The post was spawned by the last 5 years of seeing the patterns of...
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4 Kinds of Church Members and How They Relate to Your Church’s Mission
A helpful way to shepherd your people with relationship to the mission of Jesus is to ask two simple questions: 1) Is the person clear about the vision of your church? 2) Is the person wanting to make...
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How to Communicate Your Church’s Vision Visually (2014 Ministry Vision and...
If you are clear about who you are and where you are going as a church that’s awesome. Now it’s time to help everyone else in the world to see it, catch it and pass it on. The single most powerful way...
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