3 Reasons Why Your Church Should Hire a Millennial
No, I haven’t been fired (yet), so this is not a plea for churches to hire me. A Millennial is anyone born between 1980 and 1995-2000, depending on who you ask; I tend toward 2000. That would make the...
View ArticleA Face for Radio: March 18, 2015—Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Last week, I was on the Austin Hill in the Morning show on My Faith Radio for a special segment on my blog posts from a couple of weeks ago on good and bad reasons to leave churches. Yesterday, David...
View ArticleSingle Mothers and Fatherless Children: Debris in the Wake of Millennials’...
Single motherhood is an epidemic plaguing the Millennial generation. Millennials find single parenthood problematic, but they continue to support and engage in sex outside of marriage. It ultimately...
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5 Ways Your Church Can Adapt to “Digital Natives”
In a 2001 journal article (I was 11 years old, for perspective), Marc Prensky, a thought leader in the educational technology world, coined the term “Digital Natives” to describe young people who do...
View ArticleOpen Tabs 9/1/15
7 Ways I Protect My Family Life in Ministry—Ron Edmondson Important, practical wisdom from Ron to pastors everywhere. If a pastor is not careful, the weight of everyone else’s problems will take...
View ArticleHave Churches Been Doing Youth Ministry Wrong Forever?
I have never been a youth pastor, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. I’ve served in youth ministries in a volunteer capacity since I was part of youth ministry as a high school...
View ArticleThree Ways to Make the Local Church Feel More Like a Family
On Friday, I answered this question in a blog post: “Why Are Millennials Less Religious Than Previous Generations?” According to a Pew Research Center interview with a New York University sociology...
View ArticlePodcasts Have Commoditized Preaching: How Does This Affect the Local Church?
Why do people come to your church? Last week, when listening to a lecture on how the church is and is not adapting to cultural and technological changes in the 21st century, the speaker, who is a...
View Article3 Ways the Church Can Fight Against Worshiping Work More Than Jesus
Everyone is always busy. We have so much to do all the time. We all have our reasons, right? For some of us, we can’t learn to say “No” when others ask us to volunteer for projects or sit on boards....
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3 Reasons Why Pastors Neglect Leadership Development
Being a pastor is difficult. Many of your church members put you and your family on a pedestal, expecting you to be bastions of righteousness and the clearest image of Christ in the church. You are...
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No One Should Be Better at Leadership Development Than the Local Church
On Thursday, September 1, you will be able to read Designed to Lead by Eric Geiger and Kevin Peck, and I suggest you do if you’re involved with your local church. Eric is my boss (well, one of them),...
View Article3 Principles for Leading Your Church to Talk About Racial Inequality…and...
On Tuesday, I published a blog post with four fascinating pieces of data regarding Millennials and race, most of which have to do with racial inequality. As I was crunching the numbers and considering...
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