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Pastor to the Community: Discernment

By guest blogger Randy Lovejoy, part 2 of 2. As I open the door and walk in I feel the cool air hit my face. It is 8:20am and it is already beginning to heat up in the Echo Park community in Los Angeles. But the air conditioning combined with the sepia colored...

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The Final Step of Redevelopment

By guest blogger Randy Lovejoy, part 1 of 2. "He must increase and I must decrease." --  John 3:30  NASB It is Sunday morning. I am at home. No pressure. No adrenaline. I have stepped down. Sunday mornings are usually a time of action. I would get up early, shower and...

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Assum-a-side

An interesting concept from Jeff Norris: "assum-a-side" -- death by assumptions. Assuming we know what's going on rather than asking leads to a slow death (or sometimes instant martyrdom). Sometimes we think we know what people are thinking, what their concerns are,...

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Water tank financial management

When I coach people in the area of their finances, I like to use the image of a water tank. Water comes in at the top and out at the bottom. The water level in the tank signifies cash in the bank. Positive cash flow means that the water level is rising: there is more...

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What to do during that leaders meeting? VHS

If you want to cultivate a thriving church, you must make the care and feeding of your small groups and their ministry leaders a very high priority. The leadership community meeting is a regularly scheduled meeting for this purpose. I often refer to the three...

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The Habits of Leaders

Today’s entry is from guest blogger Dr. Steven Goodwin. I love reading. It has been a lifetime passion of mine to read, read, and then read some more. I feel a great kinship to Erasmus who once said, “When I get a little money, I buy books. When I get a little more, I...

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Reprogramming our self-talk

I've discovered not only in my coaching but through life in general that people often engage in negative self-talk. "I'm always X." "I struggle with Y." "I can't do Z." They spend a lot of mental energy rehearsing the wrong stuff, embedding it even more deeply into...

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What I’ve been tempted to say….

Every once in a while during consultations, I've been tempted to tell churches to put up a banner out front saying, "Go to hell. We don't care." (Full disclosure-- I only actually said this once.) What circumstances might lead me to want to say this? A church that has...

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The power of green

As an avid mountain biker who lives in the Los Angeles area, I've been thinking about green spaces lately and how the natural environment helps us connect with God. I read an interesting piece on Dave Daubert's blog that I think puts words to the way we as followers...

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