Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
ChurchLaughs cartoon on the pressures on pastors
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
From ChurchLaughs: Cartoonist: Erik Johnson, 1993
Tags: cartoons, congregations, pastors
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Book reception for translation of Abraham Kuyper's 'On Worship'
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Held outside our office this morning; learn more about the book here.
Tags: congregations, dutch, history, kuyper, publications, translation
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Charles Spurgeon on 'the Laodicean church'
Monday, April 20th, 2009
I felt convicted by this Spurgeon sermon on Revelation 3:14-21 as I read it at ccel.org: [T]hey were what the world calls “Moderates,” they were of the Broad-church school, they were neither bigots nor Puritans, they were prudent and avoided fanaticism, respectable and averse to excitement. Good things were maintained among them, but they did [...]
Tags: churches, congregations, elders, laodicean, lukewarm, pastors, programs, renewal, revelation, sermons, vitality
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Alban Weekly on 'Tending the Embers'
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
From Alban Weekly: Some churches have become a cold, gray hearth, with nary a sign of life. Others have stoked and tend a full and robust fire. But in between, I am convinced, there are some congregations, maybe more than we’d guess, awaiting a discerning eye to bend close enough to see the glow of [...]
Tags: albanweekly, communities, congregations, pastors
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New books: 'Pastor as Minor Poet,' 'Inclusive Yet Discerning,' and more
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
We’re delighted to introduce several new books in our publications series over the last few months: A Primer on Christian WorshipWilliam A. DyrnessPublisher: EerdmansPublished: 2009 Abraham Kuyper: Our WorshipHarry BoonstraPublisher: EerdmansPublished: 2009 Inclusive Yet DiscerningFrank Burch BrownPublisher: EerdmansPublished: 2009 The Pastor as Minor PoetM. Craig BarnesPublisher: EerdmansPublished: 2009 When God Speaks Through [...]
Tags: history, pastors, publications
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Will Willimon: in praise of contemporary worship
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
From Will Willimon’s blog: I hear that a number of our thriving churches are taking a critical look at their “contemporary worship” services – the services that we began over a decade ago that feature electronic, “contemporary” music and images. We appear to be moving to more eclectic, “ancient-future,” blended sorts of services. I’ve sure [...]
Tags: change, contemporary, history, music, pastors, z00011
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Alban Weekly on 'Optimal Level of Conflict'
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
From Alban Weekly: Every congregation experiences conflict, even though each one does so in unique ways. The sources of conflict may vary from the micro to the macro–from intrapersonal pathologies to personality differences to globalization forces–but over time they are inescapable. Various studies have shown that organizational leaders and managers spend up to 25 percent [...]
Tags: albanweekly, communities, conflict, congregations, pastors, z00009
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Reflections on Symposium 2009 at Nurturing Faith
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Gale Tien of Christian Schools International blogged these reflections on Symposium 2009 at the Nurturing Faith blog: In January 2009, I had the privilege to participate in the Calvin College Symposium on Worship. My role was to be an observer at the day-long gathering of nearly 25 Christian High School Worship/Chapel Committees. This group of [...]
Tags: chapels, highschool, planning, spiritualformation, wsymp09, youth, z00005
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Alban Weekly on 'Narrative Leadership in Changing Times'
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
From Alban Weekly: How do congregations make the shift from nostalgia to a new story like neighborhood? What kind of leadership is needed—by pastors and lay leaders—to move beyond the stuck places of “we’ve always done it this way” to a new way of listening for “where are we being led?” Gifted pastors, rabbis, and [...]
Tags: communities, congregations, narrative, pastors, story, z00004
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