Archive for Leadership

Interesting Blog and Site

Just happened to come across the Church Central Leadership Community website.
The blog section features some great looking articles on church growth including posts by Thom Rainer and Bill Easum. Here is a link to a post by Rainer on “Disciple Making And The Local Church”
My only complaint – and it could be just me [...]

Posted by: admin on Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Catalyst Excerpt

Nancy Ortberg spoke on the “Seduction and Myths of Influence” at Catalyst and had some good things to say.
You can read a summary of her talk at the “Out of Ur” blog – which, if you don’t already have it in your RSS reader, deserves to be added.

Posted by: admin on Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Free – John Maxwell’s New Book

John Maxwell has a new book in progress titled “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect”. Over the next number of weeks he is posting it, one chapter at a time on his blog. Today chapter one is available – when chapter two is posted on September 14th chapter one will be removed. You can check it out [...]

Posted by: admin on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Rick Warren On Leadership

Rick Warren recently spoke to pastors and ministers of the Assemblies of God at the their General Council. You can watch the video of his presentation here (he starts at about the 55 minute mark.
Note that the video actually starts at the 32 minute mark – the devotional speaker, Rev. Jacqueline Toro is also [...]

Posted by: admin on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Free Church Conference - The Nines

Leadership Network is offering a free church conference online called THE NINES that begins at:
09/09/09 at 9:09am CST.

You will hear from 47+ speakers, who will each spend 9 minutes giving their best leadership advice. Speakers include:

Mark Batterson :: National Community Church (Washington, DC)
Dave Ferguson :: Community Christian Church (Naperville, IL)
Reggie Joiner :: [...]

Posted by: admin on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Purpose Driven Webinar

Live on Thursdays – Rick Warren offers a free webcast.
You can check out the archives here.
You can also watch the sessions from the Purpose Driven Network Summit from the same page.

Posted by: admin on Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Ministries Today Magazine – free digital copy

The new edition of Ministries Today Magazine is now available free in digital form.
You can get it here

Posted by: admin on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Good To Great In The Social Sectors

I’ve been reading a little monograph "Good To Great In The Social Sectors" by Jim Collins. This little paperback, created as an addendum to the bestseller "Good To Great" is specifically targeted at the unique settings and special conditions that leaders in social organizations must deal with.
Here are a few random thoughts:

Performance must be assessed [...]

Posted by: admin on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Free Distance Learning From Covenant Seminary

While I haven’t had the time to check out all of the curriculum, there is a free distance learning program available online from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, MO. This includes .pdf transcripts of the lectures along with mp3 audio.
There are various courses available including:

Ancient and Medieval Church History
Apologetics and Outreach
Biblical Theology
Christ Centered Preaching
Christian [...]

Posted by: admin on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

5 Questions To Ask

I was reading Michael Hyatt’s blog today and as a public speaker/preacher was interested in his breakdown of what Andy Stanley had to say about 5 questions to ask yourself in preparing to speak.
Here are the five questions – you can read the post in its entirety here
1. Information: What do they need to know?
2. [...]

Posted by: admin on Thursday, June 4th, 2009