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30-Second Theology

Chicken wings. Half-time show. 4th downs. Crazy commercials. Church? Yes, the Church can leverage the power of the football championship game to reach more people for Christ. In this training, we'll talk about ways you can use the big game to reach more people for Christ in your community. Get t...

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...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Investing Your Resources the Right Way, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In this episode, let’s talk about four common allocation mistakes leaders often make, and how we can avoid those mistakes to invest our resources the right way. 1. Static resource allocation. One way people describe insanity is “do...

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...

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: Q&A - Atomic Habits with James Clear

Note: This episode is audio-only. Small habits make a big difference. In this episode, James Clear, best-selling author of Atomic Habits, joins Craig Groeschel for a conversation on creating your identity and reaching your goals by starting small, repeatable habits. Every month, Craig Groeschel...

What the Church Should Learn from Google

Most of us would say Google is pretty big. Eighteen years after it launched its search engine, it is one of the top 10 most well-known brands in the world. But despite how big it’s become, Google’s leaders continue to think bigger. Instead of looking back at what they’ve accomplished, they look...

Message Support: Chasing Carrots

What really makes for a happy life? A dream job, a bigger house, or a new relationship? If you’re always hungry for the next big thing, but frustrated because it never seems to satisfy, you might be Chasing Carrots. It’s time to hop off the treadmill and chase after something real. This five-wee...

Staff Development

Leadership XP: Laying the Groundwork for an Internship Program

Before we created Leadership XP, our internship program here at Life.Church, we needed to lay the appropriate groundwork with our staff. First, we established the goal of the program and made sure everyone was on the same page. If your goal is to grow leaders, make sure everyone knows that....

Lazy People Don’t Need Vision to Be Lazy

Churches who decide to go multi-site often do so by adding campuses in nearby cities. Sometimes, churches will promote these new locations to their attenders as a convenience: “Now you can get to church in half the time!” Those same churches are somewhat surprised when the evangelism temperature...

Leadership Podcast: It's About Time, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast . Like what you’re learning? Share it with your friends, family, or co-workers and let’s learn to grow as leaders together! Today, we’re picking up where Craig left off in Part 1 of "It’s About Time" where he shared the first two of...

Does the Size of Your Church Matter? (Part 4)

I love small businesses. I bought my only television from a local, small business. They delivered it, set it up, and called a week later to see how I liked it. Great service. I decided to get a second television so I could watch football while my kids watched whatever reality show they watch...

3 Values that Lead to Evangelism

“How do I inspire my church to be involved in evangelism?” At Alpha , that’s the one question we most often hear from church leaders—and it’s an important one for a couple of reasons. First, if we mobilize our whole congregation to engage with their community, the message of Jesus will find its w...

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,...

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 wha...