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5 Simple Ways To Invest In Your Marriage: These Practices Will Help You Keep Your Marriage a Priority
In this session Dr. Kim Kimberling shares 5 simple ways to invest in your marriage. Dr. Kim has been counseling couples for over 40 years and has been married to his wife Nancy for 52 years. Learn the 5 things he thinks every ministry leader should do to invest in their marriage. Click here for t...
Communications
Tips for Establishing a Communication Review Process
Below you'll find our best practices for the communication review process here at Life.Church. Operations Pastors/Associate Operations Pastors should monitor written communication without being a bottleneck—working more like a consultant than a content creator. Talk to your Campus Pastor about...
Leadership
How Do You Set Goals?
Life.Church Oklahoma City Pastor Chris Beall discusses best practices for setting quality goals and keeping them throughout the year. For more information about Life.Church's tool for setting and tracking goals, visit Develop.me ....
Leadership
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...
Operations
Structuring Your Growth
Many organizations embrace growth without taking the time to process how systems and practices need to change in order to support that growth. In this clip, Dave Ramsey shares a model that your church can use to ensure success no matter what your size. This video is part of the Stewardship Confer...
Operations
Team Quality is Essential
Join financial expert and best-selling author Dave Ramsey as he discusses best practices for something nobody wants to talk about—removing members from your team. This video is part of the Stewardship Conference—thanks to our partner, Financial Peace University , for sharing with Open Network....
Communications
Capturing Simple Videos for Your Church's Social Media - Unit 11
How do you keep your video viewers engaged? In this training, we’re going to talk about some of the best practices for church videography and help you create videos that will engage your community on social media. To see the rest of the "Communications for Churches" course, click here ! Relat...
Leadership
Facebook Live: Tough Pastoral Conversations
If you’ve ever felt unequipped to handle tough pastoral conversations, watch our conversation with Dr. Kim Kimberling, a licensed counselor, as he shares best practices in providing pastoral care and helping attenders develop a relationship with a Christian counselor. This on-demand video was pa...
Communications
Inside Our Communication Guide
One way we avoid making mistakes on communicative pieces is by referring to our Communication Guide. It contains our mission and core values, a list of "best practices," and practical information regarding style and punctuation specifications. The Communication Guide serves as our standard, clearly...
Giving & Finance
Giving & Stewardship Tips
Talking about finances in the church can be tricky. How can we as pastors cast vision about giving without sounding like we’re overly focused on money? In this video series, Life.Church Oklahoma City Pastor Chris Beall shares best practices for speaking with attenders about faithful giving, and how...
Leadership
When Ministry Hurts: Healing Your Marriage
It’s inevitable: parts of ministry are going to rock you to your core. Ministry hurts because ministry involves dealing with sinners. In this session Dr. Kim Kimberling shares how to heal your marriage after walking through a ministry hurt. Let him counsel you through some foundational practices th...
Leadership
Facebook Live: Creating a Strong Culture
A strong church culture helps your staff feel closer to your mission, become better leaders, and reach more people for Christ. But how do you create a strong culture, and how do you keep it healthy? Jerry Hurley, Life.Church Directional Team Leader, shares from almost 20 years of experience how he...
Kids
Setting Capacity and Leader Ratios in LifeKids
Excellence—it guides everything we do at LifeKids. It’s why we created the Excellence Walk Checklist . It’s why we carefully craft our curriculum. It’s why we never settle for “good enough.” And that includes our capacity for kids rooms. We get a lot of questions about how we determine leade...
Giving & Finance
Leading New Believers Through Tithing
At Life.Church, we like to say we will do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ. That might include things like using movies or popular TV commercials in church to illustrate truths from the Bible. As a result of being really focused about reaching the lost, we often have a lot o...
Leadership
Creating a Touchless Service
We know many churches are putting together their plans for re-entry into buildings—Life.Church is doing the same. Pastor Sam Roberts who leads Campus Operations for all of our 34 campuses, shares the steps we're taking to begin to meet again at some of our campuses. Special note: This video is...