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Using Technology to Influence

How should we leverage influence today? In this clip, Transformation Church Pastor Michael Todd shares how technology is your friend right now, and how we as pastors and church leaders can create personal connections with a broad audience of people using online methods. Like this clip from the Crai...

Message Support: "Words to Live By"

Your thoughts can hold you back, push you down, and feed you lies. But they can also lift you up! Is it time for you to change the way you’re thinking? Start with something simple—let’s find some Words to Live By. Join us for this Message Support video where we look at this stand-alone message fro...

Message Support: "Divine Direction"

This message support training will help you think through how to leverage the series Divine Direction in your church. You can find resources for the series here. You haven’t finished your life story. What will you do with the blank pages? The choices you make today will lead you one way or another...

Facebook Live: Creating a Strong Culture

A strong church culture helps your staff feel closer to your mission, become better leaders, and reach more people for Christ. But how do you create a strong culture, and how do you keep it healthy? Jerry Hurley, Life.Church Directional Team Leader, shares from almost 20 years of experience how he'...

Pastors, Anxiety, and Burnout

From the outside, we as pastors and church leaders probably seem like we have it all together. God’s calling is on our lives, and we’re doing the most important work in the world. How could we be stressed out? After all, we only work on Sundays, right? Wrong. Working in ministry is tough. In fact,...

Leading Your Church Out of Crisis

Pastors, if the way you're leading your church today is similar to your pre-pandemic plan, you probably have a bad plan. Your church has been through two years of extreme trauma. We’ve had countless tragic deaths, political division, ongoing racial tension, economic inconsistencies, and we’re...

Five Ways to Increase Your Leadership Capacity

Capacity—it's how much you can handle and how much you can produce. When you have your first child, you think you're maxed out. All the diapers and crying are more than you can handle. But then you have a second and a third child—and you realize you're getting better and better at the things that...

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 1: Value-Driven Culture

Day 1: Create a value-driven culture.One of the most important things you can do as a leader in a new year is to evaluate your culture and your values. Your culture is a combination of what you create and what you allow. And, the number one force that shapes your culture is your values. Watch this...

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 4: Empower Leaders

Day 4: Empower leaders.As we empower others to lead, it’s important to delegate authority not just tasks. If you delegate tasks, you will build followers (people who will do what they're told to do). If you delegate authority, you'll build leaders (people who will do what they're called to do.) If...

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 5: Lead Yourself

Day 5: Lead yourself.The most important person you will ever lead is yourself. We've discussed leading and growing our church, but in this new year it's important not to forget yourself in the process. One of the biggest factors in growing as leaders is your inner dialogue. When you wake up and be...

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 2: Lead Through Change

Day 2: Lead through change.As you evaluate your culture and values, you may see some patterns and issues that require your church or organization to change. A common belief is that people resist change because they hate change. But I don’t think that’s true. People don’t hate change; they hate the...

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 3: Give and Receive Feedback

Day 3: Give and receive feedback.As leaders, we have the responsibility to ask for and give feedback in a life-giving way. Why? Without honest and timely feedback your personal and organizational growth is always limited. Feedback is one of the most important tools for personal growth, but how do y...

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