I went to the Southern California Pastors’ Prayer Breakfast at Saddleback Church on Monday morning. Rick Warren has been hosting this prayer breakfast every Easter Week since 1990. Imagine the Saddleback Church auditorium filled with pastors from all over Southern California praying together. Heads bowed for Easter prayer. Would you like to join us? Here is a […]
Make Easter Amazing
Make Easter a Season of More Volunteers and New Leaders
You don’t need one more thing on your plate as you ramp up for Easter. Unless. Unless that one thing would assimilate your Christmas newcomers, build momentum, and expand your capacity to do ministry. Whaaat? What if you decided to see your Easter to-do list as the perfect opportunity to get more volunteers and develop […]
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 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. […]