Easter is six weeks away, and I have about six seconds to keep your attention. So, how about this? Reading this Coach will help you raise your largest Easter offering ever and add new donors. Need more convincing? Here is what one pastor emailed me after using my Easter giving playbook: “We followed...
It’s time to start thinking about Easter, the Easter offering that is. We are starting a mini-series focusing on the Easter offering. In this first Journal of the series, we want to make our case for thinking, planning, and praying for Easter on April 17th. Covid taught us that the...
Welcome to another Stewardship Journal! Few, if any, pastors think six weeks ahead about the Easter offering. Yet, that is exactly what we want you to do with this week’s edition of the Stewardship Journal. Let’s Make Your Easter Offering Special is our lead post and you could also say that...
Are you ready for spring? I am! While we still have more cold weather in store you can see the hints of spring. Never fear my friends, warmer weather is coming! Do you know how you can know spring is around the corner? Just go to your local Wal-Mart, Lowes, Home...
When I wrote my book on preaching on stewardship, The Forgotten Sermon, I developed the following series, Finding Stability in an Unstable World. Here is the first sermon in that series. Laying a Foundation That Assures StabilityPsalm 1 Introduction: Where were you on 9/11? Nothing so clearly illustrates the instability we continue...
“He is twenty minutes into his sermon, and he has not yet mentioned one Bible verse.” That was my comment one Sunday morning, right after our move to Oklahoma. Valerie and I were church shopping, looking for a church that would be a good fit for us. Someone had recommended...
Over 112 million people watched the Super Bowl this year. Many of those millions didn’t care who won or lost or even much, if anything, about the game. They watched the Super Bowl for the commercials. In fact, according to a study, 37% of Super Bowl viewers last year admitted...
Welcome to another Stewardship Journal! Did you watch the Super Bowl? I have met several people that stated they watched the game for the ads but not the teams playing. You probably know someone like that. In some years, the ads are more talked about than the game. This year the...
The majority of churches in America receive the bulk of their giving from members of the Baby Boomer generation. Every day, 10,000 Boomers turn 65 hastening the day of their retirement. With our largest donor base aging, the question we have been asking at the Journal is, how can we...
Welcome to another Stewardship Journal! Our lead article this week is one you will not only want to read now, but it has information that you’ll want to file away for future use. We have been quoting a lot from the recent Christianity Today article about preaching, 9 in 10...
