Did you know that you can make a leap in the quality of your worship services just by paying attention to one simple thing? Usually, we concentrate on finding the songs, videos, and other creative elements for the worship service. The focus is on “the moment” of each element. What will take your worship service to the next […]
How to Recover From the Post Easter Blues
Every pastor I know gets a little depressed (or a lot depressed) on the days following Easter. It’s natural. I call it the Post-Easter Blues. Easter is our Super Bowl. We pour our lives into preaching, and meeting, and caring for people, surviving the week on less sleep and more adrenaline than we should. Easter comes […]
How to Pray like Paul for your Church
I get tired of praying the same things over and over again for my church, so this week I accessed a prayer expert for his help on what to pray. Here are seven prayers that Paul prayed for the churches he knew. Together they’ll give you a week’s worth of biblical prayers you can pray […]
How to Fire Up Your Church for Spiritual Growth
I always thought spiritual growth was like a buffet. You step up to the table and choose whatever looks good to you. You sample. You go back for seconds. And in the end, you’re done. As a church leader using the cafeteria approach, I figured that if I could set out a variety of foods, then people could choose for […]
How to Attract your Easter Visitors Back
For those of us who lead local churches, Easter is our Super Bowl. More people attend. More people come to Christ. There’s excitement. There’s hope. And then there’s the week after Easter. One of your lowest attended Sundays of the year. Why? Because everyone attends on Easter. All of your Chreasters, all your once-in-a-whilers, once-a-month-ers, and twice-a-month-ers. […]
How to Unlock your Church’s Giving Potential
You may smirk at my simple, and profound, paradox of church giving: The vast majority of people want to give. They just don’t. And there are lots of reasons why. Some don’t give because they don’t know that they should. Others don’t give because they’ve never been taught what the Bible says. Many make assumptions about how a […]
Do you Know the 3 Unspoken Promises Church Leaders Make?
Stepping into leadership is exhilarating. And daunting. As a new leader, these questions made themselves at home in my head: “Will people follow me? Will they like me? Will I be able to accomplish anything?” Little did I know, followers have their own litany of questions. They want to know: “Is this person trustworthy? Do I want to follow […]
The Top 8 Posts of 2015 at PastorMentor
I love the “best of” posts that have been filling my inbox lately. Great content. Super helpful. Now, here is our best: the top 8 posts of 2015 at PastorMentor. We are praying that at least one will be just what the Holy Spirit wants to speak into your life today. 10,000 Blessings, Hal How […]