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The Easter Experience, from City On A Hill Productions, is a new church-wide study from the folks that produced H2O.  With host and teacher Kyle Idleman, The Easter Experience includes a six session DVD-driven small group study that coordinates with a six weekend message series–designed to conclude with Good Friday and Easter. The DVD-driven small [...]

Have you finalized plans for the fall ministry season yet?  It’s definitely time to zero in on where things are going!  Much like the way NASA has a scientifically defined window of opportunity for Space Shuttle launches (or landings), there are many factors that determine the success of a church-wide campaign and many of them [...]

What is the most powerful way to impact your entire congregation?  Many believe that a church-wide campaign, what Rick Warren refers to as a spiritual growth emphasis,  is the most important spiritual innovation in the last 50 years…maybe the last century.  Why?  Read on. Although there are very basic church-wide campaigns that simply offer a [...]

How's that for an awkward headline?  Familiar with Central Christian Church in Las Vegas?  We've mentioned a couple of their church-wide campaigns here.  They're definitely onto some good ideas from a group standpoint.  Tripped across a relatively new blog by Tracey Smith, one of Central's small group pastors.  Small Group Pastors might be an interesting one [...]

And the Oscar for Creative Use of a Star Wars theme goes to…Fusion Church Yoda Groups from Fusion Church on Vimeo. Thanks to Monday Morning Insight for the link!

Redefine your evangelistic starting point.  God responding to the cries of a broken world.  That’s the starting point.  "I’ve heard your people crying."  Exodus 3:6  When we stop hearing the cries of people… Identify God’s response to the brokenness of your own life.  When we begin to feel like we’re fixed and we are now [...]

Dr. Will Miller was hilarious last night.  I have to tell you that that is a HUGE understatement.  When he was telling about driving someone else’s beater car I very nearly wet my pants, which according to Bill Search is about the bladder (as opposed to the bowels as John Burke mentioned).  Ever seen Will [...]

My cool friend Bryan Doyle gave me a copy of The Tangible Kingdom the other day and it caught me right away!  You won’t find a more engaging book about incarnational community.  The story of Hugh Halter, Matt Smay and Adullam will grab you by page 3.  When you get to the chapter on the [...]

Looking for leader training ideas?  Simple Small Groups, newly released by Baker Books and written by Bill Search, a veteran small group practitioner, is a great new resource designed to make effective small group ministry simple. Rather than over-complicate the subject, Search isolates three simple and essential ingredients that every effective group must have, identifies [...]

When do you start thinking about January?  Are you already there?  One of the most under-appreciated habits is looking ahead.  Do you have that one?  If not, you need to develop it.  I believe it is at the heart of what separates success from failure many times.  Why?  Like an Indy car driver who never [...]