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5 Reasons Why Every Church Needs a Staff-Board Conflict Resolution Strategy

1 Comment / change managemenet, communication, Pastors / By Charles Stone

The board meetings have begun to sour. Increasingly the pastor and his board have heated conversations about the church’s direction. The conflict has bled into every meeting for months. Emotions are running high. Conflict reaches a flash point. There is no written plan on how to deal with it. What happens? The board either sends the […]

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Top 10 Healthy Ways to Handle the Church Critic

9 Comments / Church Growth, Church Staff, communication, Leadership, Ministry, Spiritual Growth / By Charles Stone

One well-worn adage goes, “The two things you can’t avoid in life are death and taxes.” I’d suggest one more adage for those in ministry. “Two things you can’t avoid in ministry are…people late to the service and … church critics.” In this short post I suggest 10 ways to handle the church critic. Having served

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5 Ways to Get People to pay Attention to Your Sermons

5 Comments / communication, Pastors, Preaching, Sermons / By Charles Stone

One of the most disconcerting feelings we pastors experience is when we prepare a sermon and pour our heart into it, yet feel that it didn’t make a difference in people’s lives. It’s equally frustrating when we preach to see somebody tuning us out. What can we do to help people pay more attention to our

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5 Brain-friendly Tips to Enhance Your Presentations

Leave a Comment / communication, Preaching, Technology / By Charles Stone

It’s all about the brain. When you preach a sermon or make presentations and want to maximize your impact with your presentation, keep the brain in mind. More than anyone else, cognitive psychologist Richard Mayer has studied the link between learning and multimedia. In his experiments, those exposed to his learning concepts recalled details more accurately and

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When Leaders Get Hooked on Being Right

Leave a Comment / change managemenet, Church Staff, communication, Compassion, Leadership, Life Balance, mindfulness / By Charles Stone

You’ve been wrestling with a ministry challenge and you believe you’ve found the right answer. At the next board meeting you share your idea and one board member begins to voice opposition. Because you feel so strongly that you’re right you begin to raise your voice, talk faster, and talk over others who want to engage in

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5 Reasons Why Every Church Needs a Staff-Board Conflict Resolution Strategy

Top 10 Healthy Ways to Handle the Church Critic

5 Ways to Get People to pay Attention to Your Sermons

5 Brain-friendly Tips to Enhance Your Presentations

When Leaders Get Hooked on Being Right

Persuade Like Jesus.