The most important thing we can do as a leader is ask the right questions of ourself and others. When we don’t ask the right questions we get wrong information. When we don’t ask the right people questions we get wrong information. When we don’t ask ourselves the right questions we live in self deception. […]
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I’ve written a few posts about what bible to buy for your kids. Here are a few of those posts. Helping kids love the bible: Stay one bible ahead Resources to help your kids love the bible. As a kids pastor my favorite bible has to be the Jesus Storybook Bible. I love because of
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This is an article I did for K! magazine a few years ago. K! is a great magazine Ryan Frank and his team do an outstanding job of finding new voices. I also am a huge fan of the layout of the magazine love the artwork. If you are not getting K! magazine and are
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This is an article I did for K! magazine a few years ago. K! is a great magazine Ryan Frank and his team do an outstanding job of finding new voices. I also am a huge fan of the layout of the magazine love the artwork. If you are not getting K! magazine and are
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We all do it. We build silo’s because we like the comfort, recognition, and ego boost our department or team you lead provides. We keep people loyal to us through our unintentional comments that make other leaders and other departments less desirable. When we don’t understand the value of the team and the goal we
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Very excited that our Book is done after 2 years of hard work and dreaming up the idea for a different kind of collaborative book project. I love that The Eric Trap is a story about a kids pastor written by kids pastors. Being a leadership fable the story pulls you in and the principles
OK, you’re a children’s pastor and you’ve challenged your kids to memorize a passage for the week. That’s pretty normal, right? Now, sit back and image this: During the week, your kids go to your church website, click a button and log in to this brand new Bible memory service. They play this game called
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I recently read a parenting book that was literally one of the best parenting books I have ever read it’s called Gospel Powered Parenting. (Here is a review my friend Dustin Nickerson did of it.) I loved it because it focused on the Gospel and Jesus not simply behavior modification. I also loved how it called men to be
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At CPC San Diego I got a chance to sit down with Heather and Elton kids pastors and founders of We Choose Virtues. I asked them a few questions – What made them start We Choose Virtues? – It started off as a classroom management tool for the preschool class Heather was teaching. The kids
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(This is a Repost of a blogpost I did last year I am going to re-do the whole seises as people in #kidmin are starting to plan for Easter. Hope this helps!) I want to start this post by saying I do not know everthing there is about curriculum production, and I in no way am
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