Daily Archives - February 16, 2023

Your Security Begins With Your Generosity

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! I’ve written hundreds of talks for the offering time, and I do this to help you elevate the offering time. To simplify and better meet your needs, starting in March, I will be moving away from posting weekly talks to the Stewardship Coach/Stewardship Journal newsletter. Instead, I will...


How Digital Giving Opens Doors

The following post appears at https://www.onlinegiving.org/support/welcome-the-digital-donor. According to a new study, Meet the Digital Donor, produced by the Barna Group, a digital pastor thinks strategically about how digital giving opens doors. They found that 68% of pastors strongly agree that it’s important to offer opportunities for digital giving, and 57% strongly...


The Keys to An Effective Easter Offering

Easter is seven Sundays away. Are you ready for the offering? Let’s get you and your team started planning how you can have an effective Easter offering. I will get you started in this edition of the Coach entitled The Keys to An Effective Easter Offering. I know how impactful...


The SBC’s Ticking Time Bomb

Southern Baptist churches are heading into a crisis that will determine which local churches will survive and which will slowly die. The chart on the left identifies the ticking time bomb about to explode throughout the Convention. Can you see the problem? Can you do the math? 84% vs. 16%! 84%...


From the Desk of Our Executive Director

The SBC’s Ticking Time Bomb is our lead article written by our Stewardship Coach, Mark Brooks. Mark has been working on a presentation for a retreat the Executive Committee of the SBC is putting on for all the state convention CP/Stewardship leaders. This article, a part of his presentation, is...