Living Above The Norm

I love free stuff.  As a matter of fact, the only thing better than free stuff is free, useful stuff.  Don’t you agree?  I recently came across this plethora (Haha, Three Amigos) of resources from CustomGuide.
I’m one of those guys that loves keyboard shortcuts.  It started back in the day when I used to work [...]

Willow Creek’s founding and senior pastor Bill Hybels once said, “The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.” I couldn’t agree more. I believe that idea could be restated this way: the world depends on the participation of the local church [...]

It never fails. Seems like just about every time I jump on the internet someone, somewhere is asking me to setup an account, enter an email address, and the dreaded…create a password. It’s not like I don’t already have enough things to remember. My socks match, I have gasoline in the car, [...]

Great information on how a well-planned agenda can help streamline the productivity of your meetings. Whether you work for a ministry or business, chances are at least some part of your weekly routine involves attending a meeting. Using these tips, you can make the most of everyone’s time.

Nothing screams great use of technology like the afternoon that I had. Almost as if it were straight out of an episode of 24, I successfully leveraged the latest in communications advancements to save the day, just in time. Chloe would have been proud. You would have, too.
The Scenario
Ok, so it wasn’t life [...]

How many meetings are in your schedule each week? Are they unproductive or too time consuming? Here are a list of absolute must-haves for ministries or business that conduct regular meetings as a way of getting things done.

I was having a conversation with my buddy @ryancardona today and he was laughing at how just about every time he tries to share a new technology or software with me, I’ve already either known about it or have found something better – “How do you know all that stuff?” We laughed and joked, [...]

I often have the opportunity to sit down with families and help them get a handle on their finances.  Let’s face it – now a days, people just aren’t teaching their children basic things like how to keep a checkbook register, how to reconcile a bank statement or even why to keep receipts.  I was [...]

Do you know or care what other people say about you?  What about your church or your business?  Just now, I was reading a new post at Ministry Marketing Coach where Kerry Bural was discussing an experience that he had with some bad ice cream.  He was showing us, first hand, how a bad experience [...]

There can be a lot of pressure on a Blogger to feel like you have to crank out some useful information on a regular basis.  Most of us aren’t able to Blog full time so we’re already at a disadvantage when it comes to finding the time to write.  I’m in that group – constantly [...]