by Phill Martin | Nov 13, 2018 | healthy congregation
#MeToo, a social media movement that began in November 2017, has ignited awareness of and accountability for sexual harassment. This new awareness of the abuse of power will hopefully cause all of us to pause and think about the congregation’s response. The reality of...
by Phill Martin | Jul 10, 2018 | healthy congregation
“Healthy organizations need healthy staff teams”. Sounds right, I guess. Is it true that all successful organizations, in fact, have a healthy leadership team? Short of a comprehensive assessment of health indicators, it might be difficult to predict organizational...
by Joel Snider | Mar 6, 2018 | healthy congregation, Uncategorized
In I Samuel 24-28, we read about a major set of events in David’s relationship with King Saul. It was a rocky relationship at best. Saul’s roller-coaster personality did not lend itself to stable interactions, particularly with someone he found as...
by Bill Owen | Aug 22, 2017 | healthy congregation
Church people talk. They talk about all kinds of things. They talk about the pastor, her sermon, how many people used to be in worship, and what we ought to be doing but haven’t yet. This kind of talk can be threatening to a pastor, but it doesn’t have to be. Having...
by Bill Wilson | Feb 21, 2017 | healthy congregation, support
When our grandson was 10 months old, he underwent a medical emergency. His immune system was compromised and his body was under assault from an infection. He needed immediate treatment and the diagnosis called for him to receive intravenous immunoglobulin. This is a...
by David Hull | Jun 21, 2016 | healthy congregation, healthy ministry
Last Christmas my wife and I gave each other personal fitness trackers. These are tools that you wear on your wrist and the tracker will keep count of the number of steps that you take during the day, the miles that you walk, the number of calories you burn, your...
