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- Creating Free Online Sign-up Forms and Questionnaires
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- Google Reviews Your Church? (Yes they do!)
- Looking for a new church ~ Part III
- Looking for a New Church ~ Part II
- Looking for a New Church ~Part I
- Making a Church Website using Google’s Blogspot
- On the Loose in Sarasota
- Ten Characteristics of a Healthy Youth Ministry
- Tashlikh -A New Year’s Ritual
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- Problems with Pastoral Prayers
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- The Rising Cost of Driving to Church
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- The Christian Athiest (and online church)
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- “Priming” -the science behind Sunday School
- Good Stories Really Do Get Inside Your Head
- Scanning the Congregation for Malware & Trojans
- More Ways to Cut the Church’s Utility Budget
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Online Resources for Building a Better Church Website
I’ll keep adding to this list… http://healyourchurchwebsite.com/ A blog with some funny stuff, insight, and technical helps. www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/web_sites/ This site is awesome, and it has edgy truth about Church websites too. www.sundaysoftware.com/webpage.htm “Building a Better Church Website” …my main article on … Continue reading
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Where you can find more of my reading recommendations…
I’ve scattered quite a few “recommended reads” through the posts in this blog. Many of my “church related” recommended reads are being footnoted in the “Advice to Church Staff” thread at For example, I’ve just posted about 7 books and … Continue reading
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Staff meetings, management, development, and inspiration
This post discusses “Team Huddles” and what I’ve learned from the 6 church staffs I’ve worked with. It concludes with some good books to read. I enthusiastically recommend that church leaders make it a habit to read books and magazines from the business world… … Continue reading
Advice from the Business World
This post shares a few insights I’ve collected from various business sources, and encourages church leaders to learn from the vast amount of leadership and organizational literature that’s out there. I’ve always been something of a eclectic reader. And especially in … Continue reading
Lead Better Meetings
Meetings are boon and bane in the church. How you lead a meeting, and how you train your chairpeople to lead meetings, can make the difference between success and failure. Better meetings are more productive. Better meetings are a way … Continue reading
Pass the Peace, -and the Hand Sanitizers
I am NOT a Germ-a-phobe or hypochondriac. I just have serious concerns about an age-old practice that creates problems in this day and age: the extent to which we pass BUGS around on Sunday morning. I’m particularly concerned about pastors: they shake EVERYBODY’S … Continue reading
Move Meetings into Homes
Meetings are often dreaded by staff and members alike. But I’ll bet we’d all agree that some of the BEST church meetings are those held in member homes rather than at the church: = The more personal setting encourages bonding and fellowship … Continue reading
Be a Better more Effective Manager
Most church staff members I’ve met are faithful people, creative people, and decent leaders, but they are poor managers. …of time, of people, of talent. Few pastors receive management training in seminary. Nobody shows a pastor how to organize their week, … Continue reading
The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture, by Randy Paush. Hyperion Books. http://www.thelastlecture.com/ This book has received a lot of press and definitely lives up to the hype. I’ve read it and had my older daughters read it. Youth groups and adult classes should read … Continue reading
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Why we left our last church…
…and what can be learned from our experience. I have edited this thing ten times. I’m sure some folks aren’t going to like what I have to say, or think I’m just ‘bitter’ as a way of avoiding the lessons here. … Continue reading
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Code Snippet: “Email a link to this page to a friend”
Code Snippet: “Email a Link to this Page to a Friend” Helping members share church website information with each other and their friends is not only a nice thing to do, it’s a form of evangelism. So, say you’re putting … Continue reading
Published Articles by Neil
Over the years I’ve written and published a number of church-related articles. Most were posted at various websites and some have appeared in church-related magazines. These links will take you to the website where the article is posted… Too Good to … Continue reading