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Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Motivating Your Team
When we think about motivation, it’s easy to start with the wrong assumption about people. People are not unmotivated. Everyone is motivated by something—they’re just not all motivated by the same things. In fact, let’s look at a good leader’s definition of motivation: The art of leading someone to...
Leadership
Leadership Podcast: The Six Types of Leaders, Part 2
Welcome to the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast. If you're a podcast subscriber, you can find the videos and notes in a few places like YouTube, craiggroeschelbooks.com, and here on Open, the home of free Life.Church resources. In this podcast, I’ll continue to discuss five kinds of leaders a...
Leadership
Micro Churches, Mega Vision
I love to challenge myself to think about things from a different perspective, especially things I’ve taken at face value. For years, when people referenced our church, Life.Church, as a megachurch, I never gave the term a second thought: I simply thought it meant a big church. Upon more reflection,...
Leadership
All About Honor
In a series we did called Forgotten Virtues, the first message I taught was on honor. If you're interested, you can download the messages here. When Jesus said, "a prophet is without honor in his hometown," the Greek word he used was “atimos” (pronounced at’-ee’-mos). It means to dishonor, to...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Principles of Higher Hiring
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! One of the most important skills you can develop as a leader is selecting, developing, and empowering the right people. The potential of your organization rests on the strengths of its people. You can have the best product, best strategy,...
Leadership
Leadership Podcast: It's About Time, Part 1
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Everyone wins when a leader gets better. In this podcast, Craig discusses time—your most valuable, non-replenishing resource. You can always make more money, but you cannot make more time. You must learn to manage your time wisely. Poor...
Leadership
The Phases of My Faith
When God wants to change my life, he changes my perspective. As He reframes the way I see the world around me, I start to think and act differently. When it comes to my faith, three phases stand out as particularly formative in the continuing journey of becoming who God has created me to be. Phase...
Leadership
How to Have a Strong Developmental Conversation
At some point in your leadership, you’ll encounter a staff member or volunteer who isn’t cutting it. And if you’re a part of any growing organization, your organization is eventually going to outgrow someone on your team. The hard part, especially for those of us who are spiritual leaders, is that...
Worship
Three Questions for Worship Pastors
At first glance, it seems like a Worship Pastor's main priority is to sing. While singing is the medium, pastoring is the goal. Worship Pastors are responsible for one of the most real, vulnerable, spiritual parts of a church experience—when we tell God how wonderful He is and let him minister to...
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5 Simple Ways To Invest In Your Marriage: These Practices Will Help You Keep Your Marriage a Priority
In this session Dr. Kim Kimberling shares 5 simple ways to invest in your marriage. Dr. Kim has been counseling couples for over 40 years and has been married to his wife Nancy for 52 years. Learn the 5 things he thinks every ministry leader should do to invest in their marriage. Click here for the...
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Neighborhood Fall Fest
Here at Life.Church, we’re testing out some new strategies for reaching people in the fall. One of these strategies is throwing a Neighborhood Fall Fest at each of our campuses. We want to share that strategy with you to help your church reach more people as well! What is it? The Neighborhood Fa...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Embracing Change
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In Embracing Change, Part 1, Craig discussed the first of three ways to welcome change within yourself and your organization: change how you think about change. In Part 2, Craig discusses the last two points. 2. Discern what needs to cha...
Operations
Meaningful and Organized: Baptism Weekends at Life.Church
Baptism is one of the most memorable moments in the life of a believer. They’ve made the decision to follow Christ, and they’re ready to show the world what God has done. It’s a beautiful symbol of dying to their old life and being made into a new creation. Since it’s such a special occasion, we wa...
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Candypalooza
Each year, River Valley Church invites all the kids in their community to a special weekend called Candypalooza! The purpose of Candypalooza is to encourage kids to invite their friends who may have never been to church before. Kids come dressed in their favorite costume, have some fun with their fr...
Leadership
An Outsider's Words Often Mean More
I see it as one of my biggest roles to encourage and strengthen our staff. Almost every time we gather, I remind them they are part of something special. But no matter how often I say it, it doesn’t mean as much as when an outsider tells them. We’ve been blessed to have Dr. Sam Chand, Chris...
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