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By David Smith Medical doctors use their knowledge, training, experience and best available tools to diagnose and treat their patients. Sometimes, it’s the “lose a few pounds and get some more [...]

By Dr. Ethel Canty Bothuel  In my October 2020 blog entitled, Three Ways to Bounce Back into Action: A COVID Journey, I cited the realities we were facing during the Pandemic.  Guess what?  We [...]

By Niyi Dunmade Over the years, many churches and their leaders have come to place emphasis on the number of people in their congregation or their seating capacity as well as the size of [...]

By Mark Lenz An analogy is something that shows how two things are alike, with the goal of making a point about the comparison. The purpose of an analogy is not merely to show, but also to [...]

by Dan Abbatiello The church board was discussing what to do with the dated, worn and frayed carpet in the church sanctuary.  One of the board members grew increasingly agitated and without a [...]

by Dr. Michael Rackley In all my years as a seminary student, I’ve never read, studied, or heard a lecture about the Antioch Church and its diversity in the Book of Acts until asked to teach at [...]

by Mark Lenz I obsess over clarity. Why? Because I’ve been in several situations, mostly in churches, where a lack of a clear purpose, clear directions and clearly stated goals led to confusion, [...]

By Jim Barber Archimedes was a Greek mathematician who lived in the 2nd century BC. He made likely the most famous quote ever about the use of a lever. By doing so, he demonstrated the [...]

by Niyi Dunmade …continued from Part 1 Micromanaging Many churches have become bureaucratic because of the problem of Micromanaging. Micromanaging in the context of church growth is a [...]

by Niyi Dunmade God wants His body to grow just like a father wants to see his child grow; He also wants churches and Christians to reproduce their kind (bear fruit), which translates into church [...]