Our articles encourage, educate, and equip church leaders as they serve Christ at their churches.
Dec 20, 2020Watermark Resources
How God Used Re:generation To Change My Church
Follow in Jesus’ footsteps A few years ago, the church I helped to start, and pastor for twenty-one years, was full of people struggling to keep themselves together. I was no exception. All of us were scraping by, feeling defeated, drowning in discouragement, and seemingly broken beyond repair. Many of us had shattered our lives and thrown away our dreams. Our church was messy, confused, and in desperate need of restoration. Thankfully, the Lord was not done with us.
Care & Recovery
Discipleship
Dec 14, 2020Watermark Resources
More Than Fetching Coffee
Reinvent the internship For most people, the word internship conjures up images of fetching coffee, sorting through filing cabinets, or inputting data into spreadsheets. Even in church circles, internships often amount to nothing more than busy work and the occasional planning meeting. Interns typically fill the role of “doing whatever the full-time staff don’t want to do themselves.” And sadly, opportunities like this often leave both interns and the churches they serve at wanting for more.
Discipleship
Church Leadership
Dec 3, 2020Watermark Resources
Draw A Circle Around Yourself
You can only change yourself When conflict arises, is it ever your fault? It’s easy to see the mistakes of others or recognize their flaws. After all, the problem is literally staring you in the face. Your spouse is the reason your marriage is in shambles. Your friend is the one who started the argument. Your child is rebelling against your authority. That church Member is being unreasonable. And so on. It’s always somebody else’s fault; someone else is always the source of the problem.
Discipleship
Spiritual Formation
Nov 30, 2020Watermark Resources
When Hard Conversations Go Bad
What do you do? We’ve all been there. You’re having a hard conversation with someone, and things aren’t going well. They’re not responding the way you had hoped. No matter how much you try, you seemingly can’t see eye-to-eye. The conversation gets heated, or it drags on endlessly with no progress made. It feels like you’re in a worse spot now than when you started. What do you do?
Discipleship
Church Leadership
Aug 12, 2020Watermark Resources
What Is Re|engage?
Born out of burnout You could say that the re|engage ministry was born out of burnout.
Marriage
Discipleship
Mar 2, 2020Watermark Resources
Give Your Ministry Away
Be a battleship In many churches, pastors get burned out by doing too much, while their church Members sit idly in the pews as consumers. Almost all of the work of ministry is left to the relatively few “professionals” on staff.
Discipleship
Church Leadership
Aug 27, 2019Watermark Resources
10 Ways To Improve Your Prayer Life
An essential part of ministry As church leaders, we can sometimes get busy with “doing stuff” for ministry—the planning, teaching, organizing, managing, writing, and other endless tasks that seem essential. We make it all about our efforts, and focus on our work far more than the work that God is doing in the world. We pat ourselves on the back for getting things done, as if we could accomplish anything on our own (John 15:5).
Discipleship
Spiritual Formation
Aug 21, 2019Watermark Resources
Why Leaders Need Community
Lonely at the top? Note: I shared this a while ago, but given some recent conversations I have had, and with tragic news related to leaders being almost a weekly occurrence, we thought we would redistribute. Join me in praying for those who are hurting from the pain of others’ decisions, and for the certainly numerous others who are isolated or who need the encouragement of friends like you. The kindest thing you can do is to share this article with leaders you love, pray for them, and pursue them as you want to be pursued.
Discipleship
Church Leadership
