This Sunday a visitor to Church asked me this question. How come this church is so alive and vibrant? I visit so many Churches were there’s no life, there are no young people, why is […]
Category: Leadership
Finding Your Muse, 5 Ways To Fuel Creativity
Finding Your Muse, 5 Ways to Fuel Your Creativity Creativity is a governing force in humanity – a function of the mind. It is, at its essence, your outward expression of an inward thought or emotion. […]
10 Reasons I Love Having Visiting Speakers
This past Sunday we had Ps Kirk Bowman from The Rock Church in North Carolina with us. After making sure he was settled into his hotel I reflected on why I love having visiting speakers. […]
Planning for People who Hate to Plan
Here it is late March, and lots of folks haven’t yet gotten around to doing their personal planning for 2014 – despite all good intentions. The start of a new year is our trigger to […]
VISION and MISSION
This last Sunday we had our Vision Sunday across all of our services. The atmosphere was electric as we celebrated all that God has done in Christian Life Church in 2013. As we looked towards […]
The Power of Vision
This graph shows the correlation between the hours of practice that Children were putting in to learn a musical instrument after they had answered the following question. “How long do you see yourself playing your […]
How to Survive the Ministry Part Two
Carrying on from my previous blog here’s part 2. DO MINISTRY WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE Finding the right people to do ministry with, to be on team with, to invest in can be one of […]
HOW TO SURVIVE THE MINISTRY Part One
Was really privileged to speak today to some Pastors on the subject of how to survive the ministry. I was unsure how to approach the subject but decided to base the talk on 2 Timothy […]
Miracles for Sale – A response to Derren Brown
Last Night I watched with interest Derren Brown’s TV programme entitled Miracles for Sale in which Derren and his team train Nathan, a Scuba Diving Instructor, to become a faith healer. Brown and his team […]
If you want it to grow get the atmosphere right.
Ignore the atmosphere at your peril. Have you ever been to someone’s home, you know, just dropped in and whoa it hit you like a train. Toxicity. Let me ask you these questions, “Did you […]
Paul Benger 