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Virtual Experience, Real Community
Church Online reaches a unique audience, and it comes with a unique set of tools and goals. While the Church Online Platform is versatile enough to accommodate many different ministry styles and technologies, here's how we approach our online ministry. Each of our online experiences...
Youth
How to Talk with Teens about Suicide
Teens deal with serious, real-life issues in their day-to-day lives, which is why we aren’t afraid to tackle heavy topics at Switch, our youth ministry at Life.Church. Suicide can be a tough topic to address, but starting the conversation with students might help alleviate some of the stigma and...
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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...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: 3 Questions for Anticipatory Leadership
The difference between a good leader and great leader is that great leaders learn to anticipate rather than react. So how can you determine where things are going? Start by asking: 1. What is happening? This is also known as situational awareness . Assess the current state of your orga...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Motivating Your Team
When we think about motivation, it’s easy to start with the wrong assumption about people. People are not unmotivated. Everyone is motivated by something—they’re just not all motivated by the same things. In fact, let’s look at a good leader’s definition of motivation: The art of leading someone...
Operations
Multi-Purpose, Multi-Benefit
Multi-purpose rooms can be one of the most valuable assets your church creates. At Life.Church, we keep our spaces efficient and our budget frugal by planning rooms that serve multiple purposes. When constructing new space, keep things as simple as possible. Try to only create rooms that can...
Leadership
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...
Leadership
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...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: The Four Essentials of Innovation
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! If you want to lead a breakout ministry, dominate an industry, change a city, help a nation, solve massive problems, or meet the needs of thousands of hurting people, you will have to learn to innovat...
Leadership
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...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: How Effective Leaders Handle Criticism, Part 2
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In our last episode, we talked about how to minimize criticism. In this episode, let’s dive in to understanding our critics. All critics are not created equal. Some criticize just to point out problems— some point o...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Secrets of Superior Decision-Making
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! The small decisions we make every day have a bigger impact on our success than a few big ones. In today's episode, let's take a look at some of the ways we can all improve in our decision-making. Our generation has a growing problem w...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Anticipatory Leadership
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! Today, we’re going to talk about what it means to be an anticipatory leader. The lifespan of your current systems, structure, and strategy is diminishing. The way you are doing what you are doing won’t work forever—just ask Kodak,...
Leadership
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 skil...
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...