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Is Anyone Listening?

With social media, many people express what’s going on inside their hearts with the same level of transparency as sharing what they had for lunch. “Out too late partying last night = overslept my alarm this morning. Guess I’ll be having ‘car trouble’ again.” “Yay, lunch! It’s burger & fries day!!...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Six Steps to Your Best Year of Leadership, Part 1

After listening to Part 1 of Six Steps to Your Best Year of Leadership, we encourage you to listen to Part 2 . Every month, Craig Groeschel delivers a new podcast about leadership, growth, and development. Find more resources for this episode—like the Leader Guide—at the official Craig Groesche...

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...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: How to Inspire Your Team

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! According to an IBM study of 1,700 CEOs in 64 countries, one of the top three qualities a leader can possess is the ability to inspire people to action . Employees who work for an inspirational leader are enthused, encouraged, ener...

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...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 1

Without a doubt, one of the most important tools to develop in your organization is a consistent culture of feedback. Many of us want to know when we are doing something right, but we might also fear or avoid hearing feedback when we’re not. What’s interesting is that most people don’t know ho...

Five Ways to Increase Your Leadership Capacity

Capacity—it's how much you can handle and how much you can produce. When you have your first child, you think you're maxed out. All the diapers and crying are more than you can handle. But then you have a second and a third child—and you realize you're getting better and better at th...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: How to Develop Leaders

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! Last month, we talked about four dark sides developers can tend toward that keep them from leading effectively. Today, we’re going to talk about developing leaders. Developing people doesn’t happen accidentally. Developing leaders...

3 Values that Lead to Evangelism

“How do I inspire my church to be involved in evangelism?” At Alpha , that’s the one question we most often hear from church leaders—and it’s an important one for a couple of reasons. First, if we mobilize our whole congregation to engage with their community, the message of Jesus will find its w...

Church Culture Conference: Ending the Cycle of Diminishing Leaders

Well-intended leaders can end up diminishing people they lead as well as others around them. Liz Wiseman helps leaders identify Diminisher habits and provides tactics to break the cycle....

Church Culture Conference: Building Multiplier Habits

Heidi Brandow explores how to recognize Accidental Diminisher behaviors and create new Multiplier practices. Learn how leaders can zoom out to see the entire chain of behavior. Understand why we do what we do, what triggers Diminisher behaviors and how to use those triggers as cues for Multiplier p...

Online Ministry

A Quick-Start Guide to Set Up a Metaverse Church in AltspaceVR

This guide will teach you how to quickly launch a church service in Microsoft’s free virtual reality app, AltspaceVR . Step 1: Create an AltspaceVR account Step 2: Create a Channel for your church Step 3: Click “Schedule an Event” under Events/My Events Step...