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5 Simple Ways To Invest In Your Marriage: These Practices Will Help You Keep Your Marriage a Priority

In this session Dr. Kim Kimberling shares 5 simple ways to invest in your marriage. Dr. Kim has been counseling couples for over 40 years and has been married to his wife Nancy for 52 years. Learn the 5 things he thinks every ministry leader should do to invest in their marriage. Click here for t...

Three Questions for Worship Pastors

At first glance, it seems like a Worship Pastor's main priority is to sing. While singing is the medium, pastoring is the goal. Worship Pastors are responsible for one of the most real, vulnerable, spiritual parts of a church experience—when we tell God how wonderful He is and let him minister to...

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...

Message Support: The Vow

Wedding vows are more than a declaration of love—they hold the keys to a strong, lasting marriage. Whether you hope to get married someday or you’ve already tied the knot, discover what The Vow can mean for the future. This four-week marriage series from Pastor Craig Groeschel walks attenders t...

Design Philosophy in Kids Ministry

Our design philosophy for our children's classrooms is simple: keep it simple. We want parents to feel good about leaving their children with us for an hour, and that means rooms that are...

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Leading New Believers Through Tithing

At Life.Church, we like to say we will do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ. That might include things like using movies or popular TV commercials in church to illustrate truths from the Bible. As a result of being really focused about reaching the lost, we often have a lot o...

Lesson Learned: People Before Policies

In any ministry—especially kid's ministry—there are often too many rules and policies to keep track of, and it's easy to get bogged down by all the procedures. If and when that happens, take stock of your priorities and bring it to God. If the rules and policies are getting in the way of safe, mean...

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...

Message Support: "I Choose"

We are the result of our decisions. While we agonize over little things like what to wear and what to eat, are we glossing over the big choices? There might be more on the line than you thought when you say “ I Choose .” This four-part message series helps us learn to be intentional about the choi...

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....

How to Do More by Doing Less

Sometimes there are many good things we can be doing, but doing them all will make us less effective at the one thing we are called to do - sharing Jesus with the world. By increasing efficiency we can actually do more by doing less , but this requires us to learn to say "no" even to good things...

Lead Pastor: How 'Keep, Stop, Start' Can Focus Your Ministry

Over the years, we've learned that while everything may be good, doing everything at once is not always best . Through a principle we call "Keep - Stop - Start," we've developed a way to spin up and wind down projects so we can focus on our mission of leading people to become fully of Christ. In t...

Message Support: Joyce Meyer and "The Right Heart"

Love God, love people—sounds simple, but it can be hard to live out. Lead your church through this two-week sermon series from guest speaker Joyce Meyer and learn how to love God and love His people by having The Right Heart ....

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Kids Ministry: When Less Is More

We're always looking at ways to reach more people for Christ, and sometimes that can actually mean that we stop doing certain things. In this training, we'll look at three key questions you can ask as you build your Kids Ministry: What should we keep doing? What should we stop doing? What...