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When Things Get Out of Balance
We think about stewarding our money, but what about our time? According to Christy Wright, time is our most valuable resource. When we are intentional about how we invest our time, we can live our lives to the fullest. This video is part of the Stewardship Conference—thanks to our partner, Financ...
Giving & Finance
Investing Your Resources Wisely
Every day, we can either spend or invest our time, money, and energy. Learn from Life.Church Oklahoma City Pastor Chris Beall as we discuss how we can best use our resources....
Operations
Campus Building Plans: Budgeting
If you’re like us at Life.Church, you want to be good stewards of the money you’ve been entrusted with. When it comes to budgeting for a new building, there will always be unanswerable questions—every situation is unique, and every set of resources and limitations affects the decisions...
Operations
Campus Building Plans: The Importance of Height
At Life.Church, we strive to honor Christ and His church with integrity. Often integrity is illustrated in the way we spend money. When constructing new buildings there are plenty of variables to keep in mind.  These variables drive costs and can create or alleviate friction both...
Giving & Finance
Giving & Stewardship Tips
Talking about finances in the church can be tricky. How can we as pastors cast vision about giving without sounding like we’re overly focused on money? In this video series, Life.Church Oklahoma City Pastor Chris Beall shares best practices for speaking with attenders about faithful giving, and how...
Church Planting
A Healthy Budget for a Healthy Church
Raymond Hudson, lead pastor of City Center Church, shares tips to plant a healthy church in the midst of a pandemic. His five steps outline methods to save money, find resources, contextualize your budget and raise your budget over time....
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Message Support: "Selfless"
Every new year, we make decisions about who we want to be. We make resolutions; we set goals. Often, these goals are focused on ourselves. Losing weight, saving money — even the best goals are often inherently self-centered. Christ did not call us to live that way. To live the life God has for us,...
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....
Giving & Finance
The "Take Back Out" Offering Explained
“If anyone is in crisis and is in need of food, clothing, or shelter, when the offering bucket passes by, you have permission to reach in and allow God to meet your need.” It can be surprising when Life.Church pastors encourage those in need to take money out of the offering bucket instead of putti...
Leadership
Avoid Promises
When God is blessing you with more than you can handle, I’d suggest you avoid making rash promises. I have seen many pastors make promises during times of blessing only to later eat their words (or be bound by a promise they wish they’d never made). ●We’ll never do a fundraiser! ●We’...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Investing Your Resources the Right Way, Part 1
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In this episode, let’s talk about an important skill that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves: resource allocation. Resource allocation is investing your available resources in the present to accomplish your goals and objec...
Leadership
The Death of the Five-Year Plan
When I started in ministry two decades ago, everyone I knew was making five-year plans. While thoughtful planning is wise and biblical, I’ve changed how I plan. Instead of planning for specific buildings, campuses, staff roles, and outreach, I plan to be prepared for opportunities that I can...
Small Groups
How to Promote Financial Peace University In Your Community
Want to effectively promote your Financial Peace University group in your community? Below, you’ll find a week by week plan to make make your group a success. For images, videos, and print materials you can download to promote your group, click here . 6-8 Weeks Before Group Key Promotion...
Giving & Finance
Life.Church Core Giving and Generosity Beliefs
Core Beliefs The following are Core Beliefs around giving and generosity at Life.Church. However, we encourage you to prayerfully identify and define your own core beliefs that will govern conversations around generosity at your church. God owns it all, and He provides everything we need to...
Leadership
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...