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A Former Pastor’s Perspective on What Makes a Compelling Worship Service

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In a recent article I wrote for Churchleaders.com, 8 Surprising Insights from a Former Pastor, I shared 8 key insights I’ve learned during the last 18 months as a former pastor. I’ve served 32 years in vocational ministry and took off the past 18 months to write, coach pastors, travel, and begin another master’s degree. The Churchleaders.com […]

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5 Surprising Observations from my 7 Hours with 40 Pastors of Today’s Largest Churches

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Each year Leadership Network  offers an amazing two day online leadership conference called The Nines. The 2013 conference is scheduled for November 15-16 and will include dozens of today’s most influential pastors and Christian leaders. I’ve been asked to be one of the presenters this year. On August 1 Leadership Network gathered 40 of these leaders at

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10 Transformative Takeaways from the Willow Creek Leadership Summit

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Two weeks ago I attended Willow’s Leadership Summit and I’m glad I did. In my prior post I wrote about the 4 books I bought because of the Summit. In this post I list the 10 transformative insights I learned. The insights are mostly paraphrases from each speaker’s respective talks, with their names in parentheses. Margin: Make margin

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My Journey from Preacher to Parishoner-8 Insights I Learned as “no longer a pastor”

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I’ve served in the local church as a pastor for over 32 years, yet for the past year I’ve not served in an official pastoral role. After 7-1/2 wonderful years at a church in Aurora, IL, I left to accomplish several goals that I couldn’t have if I were on staff at a church. I

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