Leading Ideas E-Newsletter

Abbot, David

• Moving Faith to a New Location

• Ministry as Leadership

• Helping Our Children Become Worshipful Givers

• Helping Our Children Become Worshipful Givers

• Is Your Church History a Static or Dynamic Force?

• Building Healthy Conflict Practices into Membership Vows

• A United Methodist Pastor Reflects on the Benefits of Longer Appointments

• Review of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations
• Plentiful Harvest
• Moving Established Congregations through Change

• Do Not Enter

• A Single Voice

• Jesus Asked the Right Questions

• Measuring Church Numerical Growth Is Not as Easy as It Seems

• Why We are Losing Ground with Young Adults

• Congregations Nurturing Future Leaders

• Introducing a Congregation to Contemporary Worship

• Motivating Generous Giving

• What Leaders Need to Know about the Emerging Church
• Learning to See and Listen to Younger Adults

• Leading in a Wounded Church

• Lessons for Clergy Preparing to Leave a Congregation

• Jesus as Transformational Leader

• A Generation of Tinkerers

• Developing a Strategy for Your Congregation
• Leading Worship for Those Not There Yet
• Good Leadership is Essential

• Serving Our Young Adults

• Deliberate Outreach Strategy Leads to Growth

• Focus on Priorities and Results

Hamilton, Adam

• Should Your Church Change the Worship Time for the Super Bowl?
• Leadership Lessons from a Dairy Queen
• A Leading Ideas Interview with Adam Hamilton
• Leading Beyond the Walls

• It Takes Teamwork

• Reflections on Fruitful Leadership

• Eat this Bread, Drink the Cup: Lessons Learned When Communion Practices were Changed

• Church Birthing Churches
• Important Lessons my Congregation Helped my Learn

• Do Not Enter

• Creating Leadership Accountable Systems

• Make Space for Mistakes
• Leadership as Playful Creative Adventure

• Megachurches as Resources for Learning

• Basketball Coaching and Leadership

• By Any Means Necessary

• 10 Tips for Handling Complaints in Ministry
• When Church People Swarm
• Leaders Stay Connected
• Knowing the Pathways of Congregational Life

• Church Leadership Holds Much in Common with Gardening

• Assessing the State of Pastoral Ministry
• Fruitful Leadership for a Mission Shaped Church

• A Church that Feeds Body and Soul: Helping an Older Congregation Discover the Song of their Heart

• Ministering to the Missing Generation

• Why Young Clergy Matter
• Young Adults and the Future of the Church
• Review: Stilling the Storm
• Toward a Compelling Theology of Lay Ministry
• Coaching and Christian Leadership
• Some Resources for Coaching
• Review of Ultimate Responsibility: When You're in Change of Igniting a Ministry
• “Outside-In Thinking” Improves Church Communication
• Focusing Your Message
• A Healthy Youth Group
• Women and Leadership: New Ways of Thinking
• Needs Based Evangelism by Robert Pierson
• Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul
• United by Faith & Divided by Faith
• Planting a Garden
• The Gift
• Defining Congregational Effectiveness
• Web Review - US Congregations
• Making Church Matter for Youth

• Inside the Organic Church: Learning from 12 Emerging Congregations

• God’s Leaders Multiply, Not Maintain
• Prayer & Fasting Lead to a New Mission and a Mission Prayer

• Backtalk! Women Leaders Changing the Church

• Book Review: The Ministry of the Missional Church
• Book Review: What's Theology Got to Do With It?
• Book Review: Church on the Edge of Somewhere
• Small Churches as Healthy Family Systems

• Coaching New Leaders

• Book Review - True North:Discovering Your Authentic Leadership

• Diversity Leadership in the Church

• What I Learned from a Group of Unruly Youth

• Strong Youth Ministry and the Call to Ministry
• A Leading Ideas Review of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations
• The Challenge of Fruitfulness

• All the Mainline News That's Fit to Print, with Lovett Weems

• Becoming Spiritual Leaders
• Spiritual Leaders and Vision

• Everyone Welcome?
• Speaking the Truth in Love to a Long Time Member

• Keeping Your Ministry Fresh and Creative
• Building Community in Churches with High Turnover

• Invading the Mundane: Leadership Insights from Live Earth London

• The Church of the Good Air
• The Bon Air Hymn

• Leadership and Humility, with Lovett H. Weems

• Leadership and Spirituality
• It's in the Mind
• Living in Paradox- The Life of American Clergy
• Pastoral Transitions - Leaving Well
• Pastoral Transitions - Preparing the Way for Your Successor
• What Might Other Churches Learn from the Southern Baptist Membership Loss?
• Why Young Clergy Matter
• Changing Religious Traditions: Not New But Accelerating
• An Even Better Way to Track Attendance in the New Year
• New Ways for Church Members to Give
• We Need More Young Families with Children
• Four Key Challenges in Pastoral Transitions
• Can White Mainline Churches Outside the South Reach New Christians?
• The Tully Principal of 52 Equal Sundays
• Leading Between Memory and Vision
• Jim Collins Book
• It’s Not about the Numbers…Actually It Is About the Numbers
• A Better Way to Track Attendance In the New Year
• Leadership and the Small Membership Church
• Deal with People
• Doing Things Well
• A Short Step to Excellence
• Lead Now
• No Solitary Leaders
• Leaders Make Others Heroes
• Pitfalls to Avoid in Reaching a Younger Constituency
• “Who is the Greatest?” The Perennially Wrong Leadership Question
• Leadership and Humility, with Susan Sonnenday Vogel
• A Better Preacher in Thirty Seconds
• Leaders Know Themselves
• The Young Clergy Dilemma in Mainline Denominations
• From Faithful Ministry to Fruitful Leadership
• A More Accurate Way to Measure Giving Through the Year
• Leadership Lessons from Peter F. Drucker
• Peter Drucker’s Books
• Leadership and Racism
• Leader as Communicator
• Leadership for Giving
• Ten Leadership Lessons from Nehemiah
• Accountability without Control
• Sources of Authority for Pastoral Leadership
• Transformation of Small Membership Churches
• Four Questions for Congregational Leaders
• When Good Practices are No Longer Good Enough
• All the Mainline News That's Fit to Print, with David Schoeni
• Opening Up the Small Membership Church
• A Simple Planning Process
• Leadership for Worship
• Demographics and Leadership
• Stages of Leadership
• I Hope They Will Know I Believed in Them
• Reviving Old St. Patrick's Church
• Points of Vulnerability
• Which Comes First - Belief or Belonging?
• Predictors of Youth Returning to Church as Adults

• Paying Attention to Those Who Give and Those Who Don't

• Book Review: Leadership from the Inside Out by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson

• A Two-Point Charge Launches a Satellite Contemporary Worship Service

• Resources for Satellite Worship
• Book Review: The Multi-Site Church Revolution

• Leadership Multiplication and the Way of Jesus Christ
• Leading in the Wilderness: Thoughts on 21^st Century Pastoral Identity