Scott Gress

…If you rely on doing it from your office or from behind your screen. Granted, social media is powerful, where email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc can have a huge impact. But how are you using these means as an excuse

IF you have the attitude that “we can do it and you can help.” The “we” being the church staff and the “you” being the church members. This means that the staff run the programming and significant ministry and the

Did you go to freshman orientation? New job orientation? There are a lot of places and jobs and associations which require some kind of orientation. But what kind of orientation do we do in the church? New member catechism classes.

Robert D. Putnam in his influential study, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, writes that only in high-trust environments can leaders recruit the eager support they need to achieve worthy goals. So how much do you trust

Most of the time that expression has to do with cleaning the house and opening the windows to let in some fresh spring air. But for our purposes this refers to something that we as leaders can almost be blind

Recently I was watching an interview of a someone I used to admire. He was a two time gold medalist in the pole vault and minister Bob Richards. Back when I was a pole vaulter and a Christian myself, he

The first step is admitting you have a problem. That kind of sounds like some kind of addiction anonymous twelve step program. Well, perhaps it is. If your immediate reaction to the above is, “I’m fine.” Then keep reading because

It’s now the fourth week in January. Have you given up on your goals for 2017 or are you “all in?” In poker, going all in is risking it all. You are betting all your chips. There is no holding