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Giving

Tips for Year-End Giving

It’s part of the natural rhythm of the year: giving tends to increase during the Christmas season. At Life.Church, we don’t take this for granted. We’re intentional about being humble and being good stewards of our resources, and that includes how we approach our tithing and giving communication at...

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Leadership

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....

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Leadership

The Timing of Feedback

Not only do you want to ask the right people the right questions, but you’ll also want to do it at the right time. I see three different times when feedback is valuable: 1) Before the event Most leaders I know look for feedback on the back end. I crave it on the front end. Each w...

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Leadership

Facebook Live: Time to Innovate

In a recent Facebook Live titled "Time to Innovate," Life.Church Innovation Pastor Bobby Gruenewald , Campus Pastor Chris Beall , and Online Pastor Alan George discussed mindshifts that allow churches to embrace this season as a time for innovation. Replay the full event on Facebook or enjoy th...

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Human Resources

Leadership XP: The Full Time Internship

What we've learned: Here at Life.Church, we have a summer intern academy that usually lasts about three months, but our primary intern placement is for three to seven months. This longer internship program allows us to really invest in, train up, and send out young leaders who can potenti...

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Leadership

Andy Stanley - Leading in Uncertain Times

When the culture, climate, or circumstances change, you have to be willing and flexible enough to abandon or change your plans. There will always be a problem you’re not totally sure how to solve, a possibility you can’t completely predict, or a next step you’re not sure how to start. In the midst...

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Leadership

Improve Communication with Stage Time Drills

At Life.Church, we don’t give “announcements.” We lead people to action. Because of this philosophy, leaders at our campuses set aside time weekly to practice how they’re going to interact with attenders from the stage. We call this Stage Time Drills. A Stage Time Drill begins with a speaker doing...

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Leadership

Making Time for What You Love

According to Christy Wright, the key to a happy and fulfilling life is investing our time in what we love. Even when we’re busy, we can live in a way that gives us life instead of draining it. This video clip is part of the Stewardship Conference—thanks to our partner, Financial Peace University,...

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Leadership

Leadership Podcast: It's About Time, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! Everyone wins when a leader gets better. In this podcast, Craig discusses time—your most valuable, non-replenishing resource. You can always make more money, but you cannot make more time. You must learn to manage your time wisely....

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Leadership

Leadership Podcast: It's About Time, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast . Like what you’re learning? Share it with your friends, family, or co-workers and let’s learn to grow as leaders together! Today, we’re picking up where Craig left off in Part 1 of "It’s About Time" where he shared the first two of...

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Leadership

How to Make Time for What Matters

The only person who has power over your time is you. Learn from Christy Wright as she shares the method to discovering where you should invest your time. This video clip is part of the Stewardship Conference—thanks to our partner, Financial Peace University , for sharing with Open Network....

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Church Planting

How to Get First Time Visitors to Come Back

In this video Mike Santiago, Lead Pastor of Focus Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, shares about getting new people connected to your church. This is called an assimilation process and it maps out the steps someone takes from the first time they visit to getting connected to the community....

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Leadership

Leadership Podcast: Institutionalizing Urgency, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In many organizations, urgency is not the default mode—complacency is. In the last episode, Institutionalizing Urgency, Part 1 , Craig discussed two steps to declare war on complacency in your culture: embody healthy skepticism ,...

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Leadership

The Most Important Word

In many cases, the word “no” is more important than the word “yes.” To say “yes” to the  best  things, you’ll have to learn to say “no” to the  good things. In ministry, you will be overwhelmed with many good opportunities. But if you say “yes” to all of them, one d...

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Leadership

Training Your Church

If you don’t train your church to know which boundaries are appropriate, you likely won’t have many. If you are the senior pastor, you can set the tone publicly. I’d suggest a few of the following: Publicly communicate when your day off is. Talk about how important that day is to your family....

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Lead Pastors

Lead Pastor: How 'Keep, Stop, Start' Can Focus Your Ministry

Over the years, we've learned that while everything may be good, doing everything at once is not always best . Through a principle we call "Keep - Stop - Start," we've developed a way to spin up and wind down projects so we can focus on our mission of leading people to become fully of Christ. In t...

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Leadership

Leading for the 167

There are 168 hours in a week, but your attenders will most likely only spend one of those hours in church. In this video, Life.Church Stillwater Campus Pastor Cody Chaloner explains how you can wisely invest one hour to make a difference in your attenders' 167....

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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...

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Messages

Message Support: "I Choose"

We are the result of our decisions. While we agonize over little things like what to wear and what to eat, are we glossing over the big choices? There might be more on the line than you thought when you say “ I Choose .” This four-part message series helps us learn to be intentional about the choi...

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Leadership

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Anticipatory Leadership

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! Today, we’re going to talk about what it means to be an anticipatory leader. The lifespan of your current systems, structure, and strategy is diminishing. The way you are doing what you are doing won’t work forever—just ask Kodak,...

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