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The Other Side
Romans 8:28 offers the amazing promise of God bringing good out of all situations for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. I’ve watched God bring good on the other side of many difficult times. Today, I’ll talk about the other side of financial trials . One mon...
Communications
Communicating Tough Topics with Attenders
As a pastor or church leader, there are times when you have to talk through painful experiences with your attenders, whether in individual conversations or to your congregation as a whole. Life.Church Tulsa Area Pastor Tome Dawson shares some tips to guide you through these difficult communication...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 2
In last month’s episode , we talked about craving useful feedback and three factors that matter when you’re receiving it. This month, let’s talk about three factors that matter when you’re giving feedback . 1. When you give feedback. For some organizations, the most common time for fe...
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...
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5 Ways the Best Leaders Think Master Class
5 WAYS THE BEST LEADERS THINK: MASTER CLASS WORKBOOK YOU’RE A PASTOR. YOUR MIND MATTERS. Find the five master class teaching videos from Craig Groeschel on YouTube . To walk through this workbook with your team, download the PDF ....
Leadership
Leadership Podcast: Institutionalizing Urgency, Part 1
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In this episode, Craig will discuss the importance of urgency in success. The greatest threat to future success is current success. Success feeds pride, and pride kills urgency: nothing fails like success. In many organizations, urge...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: The Developer's Dark Side
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! As a leader, your most valuable resource is always the people in your organization. We don’t bet on strategies. We don’t bet on products. We don’t bet on ideas. We bet on people. After all, they are the ones who create the strategies,...
Communications
What Belongs on Your Church Website? - Unit 7
You’ve probably put a lot of time, energy and resources into making a great first impression in your church building. But what about your digital first impression? Knowing what to include on your website can be so difficult. In this training, we’ll help you discover what you should and shouldn’t in...
Leadership
Fasting From Church Stuff
For years I tried to learn from and be like other ministers. I listened to messages, attended conferences, and devoured every Christian book I could. Each time I met a new leader, I tried to become more like them. A few years ago though, God led me to do something very different. (I'm not ne...
Small Groups
Leading the Way with Small Groups
“Church” is much more than a weekly experience. Being the "capital “C” Church includes serving, giving, and engaging with God and others. A healthy, thriving, small group ministry is a necessary component to Christian community, but can be difficult to build effectively. At Life.Church, we e...
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...
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
Leading Your Church Out of Crisis
Pastors, if the way you're leading your church today is similar to your pre-pandemic plan, you probably have a bad plan. Your church has been through two years of extreme trauma. We’ve had countless tragic deaths, political division, ongoing racial tension, economic inconsistencies,...
Leadership
The Right Questions
In the church world, you will almost always get feedback. But not all feedback is equal. Finding the right feedback is vitally important. A key to finding the right feedback is asking the right questions. Here are a few questions that won’t be very effective: ● What did you think o...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Sharpening Your Communication Skills, Part 2
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In part one of "Sharpening Your Communication Skills," we talked about a few ways to become a better communicator. Today, let’s talk about the hats you wear as a communicator. For me, I might be a dad, or a husband, and a pastor. Som...