Author: Paul Alexander
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Top Posts of 2012 #5: Better Together Making Church Mergers Work
For the next five days I’m going to be running down the top 5 posts from 2012 on Helping Churches Make Vision Real. These are the posts that generated the most traffic, comments, tweets, and Facebook posts. We start off with what ended up being a 2-part post. One of the most exciting things I’ve…
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Ministry Trends for 2013
Last week Rich Birch, who serves as the Director of Operations at Liquid Church in New Jersey released an info-graphic about trends he’s seeing in ministry as we head into 2013. With his permission I’m happy to share it with you here. You can keep up with Rich at his blog unseminary where he discusses…
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Home for Christmas
The mission of the Church is to get people home, and each year as we celebrate Christmas we’re reminded that Jesus came to bring us home and that He is in fact the Way home. This year we had an opportunity to literally join God in bringing people home. Through the generosity of a couple…
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Fighting Hunger in our own Backyard
82,000 people in Maricopa County are hungry, and this year Sun Valley Community Church is doing something about it. You can read all about it at this link. When we think of the hungry in America our thoughts usually turn to third world countries. But the truth is the hungry are all around us. Could…
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Why Telling People What to do makes them Stupid
While directions and plans may help you put together furniture from Ikea (with a little luck), put together your kids toys on Christmas Eve or even build enormous buildings and superstructures they don’t inspire people to give their lives to a cause or join a movement. After all, Martin Luther King Jr. said ‘I have…