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4 Steps for Creating an Easter Photo Op
Easter is one of the biggest opportunities of the year for your church to share Christ with your community. In addition to the Easter message, worship, and prayers, having a photo-op area is one extra touch that can provide value and community to attenders. When you invite people to take a picture...
Messages
Message Support: "I Want to Believe, But..."
In this four week series, we'll look at some of the barriers that keep people from believing in God. It’s often difficult to believe in a God we cannot see. We wonder why God didn’t answer our prayers, why God allows suffering, or why we can’t feel His presence. God may not meet all your expec...
Leadership
Be Unreasonable
I bet you have heard this many times: “be reasonable.” Truthfully, under many circumstances, “be reasonable” is sound advice—but not always. As Christian leaders, there are some times to be unreasonable. When you pray, you might ask God to do something most would consider impossible...
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A Prayer: Submit Yourself to God
This excerpt is from the series " A Way Out ." Many of us are familiar with the phrase "resist the devil and he will flee," but we overlook the sentence that precedes it in James: " Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee." Submit to God daily in prayer; when you'...
Leadership
Tracking Data in Your Church
When you have the right data in your hands, your team is equipped to prayerfully make smarter ministry choices. Thanks to Church Metrics, getting a bird's eye view of what's going on in your church is easier than ever. Learn as Life.Church Tulsa Area Pastor Tome Dawson shares how you can use Churc...
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...
Online Ministry
Church Online Is Messy
Our Church Online experiences are about more than just watching a sermon. Church Online is about meeting people right where they are, no matter where in the world they are. It's about relationship, community, prayer, and hope. Whenever we create a ministry, outreach, or program, we focus on more th...
Leadership
Leading Into the Future
When I want to lead into the future, I usually look into the past to see what I can learn from any patterns. Sensing it was time to make some changes in our church culture, I prayerfully reflected over the different seasons of our church.I noticed a distinct pattern that repeated itself at least s...
Messages
All About "Football Sunday"
"Football Sunday" is a 30-minute video event that plays across America on the day of the football championship, February 5, 2017. To sign up to host "Football Sunday," click here! We'll let you know when the event video is posted to our site in the week before game day. Presented by our pa...
Online Ministry
How to Increase Church Online Engagement
How do you turn passive viewers into engaged attenders during church online services? There are many ways to increase engagement in online ministry, so we asked the Life.Church Online team to share a few of their tips. Listen to Online Host Team Pastor Amanda Sims share a few ways they increase en...
Leadership
Think Ahead: Anticipate on Purpose
Successful people are often great at anticipating—the needs of others, the trends of the future, and the next steps that need to be taken. Make it a priority to intentionally practice anticipation in the following ways: If you want to be promoted as an assistant, anticipate how...
Operations
The Code: What Matters Most
The Code. It's what we call our set of core values here at Life.Church. This is different than our statement of faith—it has more to do with focus and perspective. As the church grew and changed over the years, we realized...
Leadership
Obeying God in Spite of the Data
What we've learned: "Data has a seat at the table"—it's something we say a lot here at Life.Church. The distinction is that even though we place a high value on collecting and analyzing data (that's why we created Church Metrics , after all), it still only has one seat at our decision-...
Church Online Platform
The Chat Is Where It's At
When you first navigate to a Church Online Platform service (see an example at https://live.life.church/ ) you see two main components: a video player and a chat window. We sometimes hear, "Why does your Church Online experience have chat…isn't it about watching the sermon?" Church onlin...
Leadership
Be Good at Something Different
In ministry, most churches and leaders try to be good at what everyone else is good at doing. We’re all trying to improve our preaching, youth groups, kids’ curriculum, worship, environments, and countless other areas. The problem is that we’re not all blessed with the same gifts, and we're...