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Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 2

In last month’s episode, we talked about craving useful feedback and three factors that matter when you’re receiving it. This month, let’s talk about three factors that matter when you’re giving feedback. 1.When you give feedback. For some organizations, the most common time for feedback is dur...

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,...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Sharpening Your Communication Skills, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! If you’re a leader, you probably also want to improve as a speaker. Most of us see video of ourselves and get depressed because we’re not as good as we think we are. Today, we’ll discuss a few ways we can sharpen our communication skills...

Crosstown Leader Training

Ready to get started with Crosstown? This video shows you the Crosstown experience at Life.Church. While your church’s set-up will be different, this video can show you how to implement Crosstown with your kindergarteners. You’ll see the vision behind each part of the experience while learning all k...

Bible Adventure Leader Training

Ready to get started with Bible Adventure? This video shows you the Bible Adventure experience at Life.Church. While your church’s set-up will be different, this video can show you how to implement Bible Adventure with your pre-school aged children. You’ll see the vision behind each part of the expe...

Bible Adventure: Adventure Bag

It's the little extra touches that make a project special. For the Bible App for Kids Curriculum, our Content Team found this amazing little bag for our host Emily to use in the teaching videos. And the great part is, our leaders in every classroom are using the same bag! If you'd like to use the...

Bible Adventure: Designed for Small Groups

Children need positive one-on-one personal interactions like the ones they can get in a small group setting. The Bible App for Kids Curriculum is designed to facilitate small group interactions from the beginning to the end of each experience. Help your small group leaders learn how to lead their gr...

Bible Adventure: The Research Behind the Resource

To create the Bible App for Kids Curriculum, our Content Team spent hours studying the learning habits of preschoolers and reviewing successful kids programming. The result was a two-year curriculum for ages 2 through 5 that keeps preschoolers' attention and teaches them about Christ. In anything yo...

See Inside a Bible Adventure Room

Want to see Bible App for Kids Curriculum in action? Watch an entire experience with kids ages 2 through Kindergarten! From Play Time to Story Time—it’s all here. See interviews with leaders on behavior management strategies that work well for them. Add these videos and their accompanying discussion...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Fire Your Inner Boss

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Why do people leave their jobs? The number one reason: they don’t like their bosses. People don’t leave companies—they leave bad bosses! Why? That’s because many bosses don’t understand what it takes to be a leader. Power and influence...

Online Ministry

Church Online Playbook: Leveraging Facebook Groups

Download the complete playbook for free here. Let’s Reach the World Together: A step-by-step process to build community and reach more people online. Each week, more than 270,000 people attend Life.Church Online from every country and territory on the map. We’ve celebrated over 100,000 people su...

Worth Revisiting: Excellence/Effectiveness

There are several principles that I seem to revisit when talking with pastors. A couple of these are the cost/excellence curve and the cost/effectiveness curve. If I gave you $100,000, could you make your house or apartment excellent? I imagine that with some careful investments in furniture, p...

Communication: The Seven Touch Points

Sometimes people ask about our communication strategy for attracting new people to Life.Church and retaining current attenders. Because people are more distracted than ever and going to church less frequently, we want to get them excited about upcoming content so they’ll come (and bring a frien...

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...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: How to Develop Leaders

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Last month, we talked about four dark sides developers can tend toward that keep them from leading effectively. Today, we’re going to talk about developing leaders. Developing people doesn’t happen accidentally. Developing leaders mu...

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