Leading Ideas E-Newsletter

Leadership Resouces from Leading Ideas

Called to Ordained Ministry

• Living in Paradox- The Life of American Clergy by Lovett Weems
• Why Young Clergy Matter, by Lovett Weems and Ann Michel
• Squandering Leadership Potential, by Lovett Weems
• Congregations Nurturing Future Leaders, by Elizabeth Mitchell Clement

Change

• Introducing a Congregation to Contemporary Worship, by Dianne Cochran
• Is Your Church History a Static or Dynamic Force? by Joe Arnold
• Eat this Bread, Drink the Cup: Lessons Learned When Communion Practices were Changed, by Jackie Hoy
• Moving Faith to a New Location, by David Abbot
• Moving Established Congregations through Change, by Tom Berlin
• Important Lessons My Congregation Helped Me Learn, by Richard Hunter

 Children

• Helping Our Children Become Worshipful Givers, by Melvin and James Amerson
• Children’s Ministry
• A pastor discovered a distinctive gift her congregation had to offer children

Communication

• “Outside-In Thinking” Improves Church Communication, by Ann Michel
• Focusing Your Message, by Ann Michel
• Leader as Communicator, by Lovett H. Weems

 Conflict

• Speaking the Truth in Love to a Long Time Member by Gary Shockley
• Eight Strategies for Managing Conflict
• Leading in a Wounded Church by K. Wayne Day
• Stilling the Storm by Kathleen S. Smith
• 10 Tips for Handling Complaints in Ministry by Margaret Marcuson
• How to Treat a Staff Infection: Resolving Problems in Your Church or Ministry Team by Craig and Carolyn Williford
• When Church People Swarm, by Margaret Marcuson
• Deal with People, by Lovett Weems
• Building Healthy Conflict Practices into Membership Vows, by Jonathan Arnpriester
• Pastor in her first year tells of a lesson learned the hard way
• A pastor practiced newly learned leadership theory to engage church conflict

 Congregational Revitalization

• Deliberate Outreach Strategy Leads to Growth by Randy Guess
• Inside the Organic Church: Learning from 12 Emerging Congregations
• A Two-Point Charge Launches a Satellite Contemporary Worship Service, by Amy Yarnall
• God’s Leaders Multiply, Not Maintain, by Peter Moon
• Moving Faith to a New Location, by David Abbot
• Developing a Strategy for Your Congregation, by Bishop Jonathan Gledhill
• Defining Congregational Effectiveness, by Ann Michel
• Web Review - US Congregations
• Moving Established Congregations through Change, by Tom Berlin
• You Only Have to Die
• Reviving Old St. Patrick's Church, by Lovett Weems
• Leading Beyond the Walls
• A pastor of a rural church tells how a personal spiritual quest led to church renewal

Diversity

• Diversity Leadership in the Church by Jeffrey S. Rogers
• By Any Means Necessary by Jacqueline Lewis
• A Single Voice by Kevin Brown
• People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States by Michael Emerson and Rodney Woo
• Leadership and Racism, by Lovett Weems
• United by Faith & Divided by Faith
• A pastor discovers important lessons for a multicultural congregation

 Emerging Church

•  What Leaders Need to Know about the Emerging Church, by Susan Cox-Johnson
• Inside the Organic Church: Learning from 12 Emerging Congregations

Fruitful Ministry

• Megachurches as Resources for Learning by Asa Lee
• An Even Better Way to Track Attendance in the New Year by Lovett Weems
• A Leading Ideas Interview of Bishop Robert Schnase author of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations
• Review of Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations by Bishop Robert Schnase
• Measuring Church Numerical Growth is Not as Easy as It Seems, by George Bullard
• It’s Not About the Numbers…Actually It Is About the Numbers, by Lovett Weems
• A Better Way to Track Attendance in the New Year, by Lovett Weems
• Becoming Spiritual Leaders, by Bishop John R. Schol
• The Challenge of Fruitfulness, by Bishop Robert Schnase
• Church Leadership Holds Much in Common with Gardening, by Robert Martin
• Reflections on Fruitful Leadership, by Cindy Hickman
• From Faithful Ministry to Fruitful Leadership, by Lovett Weems
• Fruitful Leadership for a Mission Shaped Church, by David McAllister-Wilson
• Plentiful Harvest, by Tom Berlin
• Projects that Matter: Successful Planning and Evaluation for Religious Organizations

Importance of Leadership

• Good Leadership is Essential, by Bishop Jonathan Gledhill
• Accountability without Control, by Lovett Weems
• Sources of Authority for Pastoral Leadership, by Lovett Weems
  

Lay Leadership

• Toward a Compelling Theology of Lay Ministry by Ann Michel
• Creating Leadership Accountable Systems by Sue Nilson Kibbey
• Review of Ultimate Responsiblity: When You're in Charge of Igniting Minstry by Sue Nilson Kibbey
• How to Treat a Staff Infection: Resolving Problems in Your Church or Ministry Team by Craig and Carolyn Williford
• It Takes Teamwork, by Kevass Harding
• Leadership Multiplication and the Way of Jesus Christ, by Dwight Zscheile
• Trading Places
• Coaching New Leaders, by Stewart Perry
• Leadership from the Heart

 Leadership Best Practices

• Leadership as Playful Creative Adventure By Michael S. Koppel
• Focus on Priorites and Results by Kent Halstead
• Leading in a Wounded Church by K. Wayne Day
• Coaching and Christian Leadership by Ann Michel
• Creating Leadership Accountable Systems by Sue Nilson Kibbey
• Review of Ultimate Responsiblity: When You're in Charge of Igniting Minstry by Sue Nilson Kibbey
• How to Treat a Staff Infection: Resolving Problems in Your Church or Ministry Team by Craig and Carolyn Williford
• It Takes Teamwork, by Kevass Harding
• Good to Great and the Social Sectors
• A Better Preacher in Thirty Seconds, by Lovett Weems
• Building Community in Churches with High Turnover, by Jim Sommerville
• The Leader as Communicator, by Lovett Weems
• When Good Practices are No Longer Good Enough, by Lovett Weems
• Projects that Matter: Successful Planning and Evaluation for Religious Organizations
• Points of Vulnerability, by Lovett Weems

 Lessons for Leaders

• Make Space for Mistakes By Michael S. Koppel
• Leadership as Playful Creative Adventure By Michael S. Koppel
• Jesus as Transformational Leader by Natasha LaShawn Gadson
• It's in the Mind by Lovett Weems
• Diversity Leadership in the Church by Jeffrey S. Rogers
• Speaking the Truth in Love to a Long Time Member by Gary Shockley
• It's in the Mind by Lovett Weems
• Invading the Mundane: Leadership Insights from Live Earth London by Sidney Traynham
• Review: Leadership from the Inside Out
• Jesus Asked the Right Questions, by Marc Brown
• Leading Between Memory and Vision, by Lovett Weems
• Doing Things Well, by Lovett Weems
• Leadership Lessons from a Dairy Queen, by Adam Hamilton
• Becoming Spiritual Leaders, by Bishop John R. Schol
• A Short Step to Excellence, by Lovett Weems
• Lead Now, by Lovett Weems
• No Solitary Leaders, by Lovett H. Weems
• Leaders Stay Connected
• Leaders Make Others Heroes, by Lovett Weems
• “Who is the Greatest?” The Perennially Wrong Leadership Question by Lovett H. Weems
• Leadership and Humility by, Susan Sonnenday Vogel and Lovett H. Weems
• Leaders Know Themselves, by Lovett Weems
• Knowing the Pathways of Congregational Life, by Margaret Marcuson
• Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul
• Leadership Lessons from Peter F. Drucker, by Lovett Weems
• Peter Drucker’s Books
• The Leader as Communicator, by Lovett Weems
• Important Lessons My Congregation Helped Me Learn, by Richard Hunter
• Ten Leadership Lessons from Nehemiah, by Lovett Weems
• Basketball Coaching and Leadership, by G. Douglass Lewis
• Stages of Leadership, by Lovett Weems
• I Hope They Will Know I Believed in Them, by Lovett Weems
• Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge
  

Mainline Church Challenges

• What Might Other Churches Learn from the Southern Baptist Membership Loss? by Lovett Weems
• Why Young Clergy Matter by Lovett Weems and Ann Michel
• Changing Religious Traditions: Not New but Accelerating by Lovett Weems
• Young Adults and the Future of the Church by Ann Michel
• Ministering to the Missing Generation by Carol Howard Merrit
• Can White Mainline Churches Outside the South Reach New Christians by Lovett Weems
• Learning to See and Listen to Younger Adults, by Susan Cox-Johnson
• The Young Clergy Dilemma in Mainline Denominations, by Lovett Weems
• When Good Practices are No Longer Good Enough, by Lovett Weems
• All the Mainline News That's Fit to Print, by David Schoeni & Lovett Weems

New Church Development

• A Two-Point Charge Launches a Satellite Contemporary Worship Service, by Amy Yarnall
• Resources for Satellite Worship, by Dottie Yunger
• Church Birthing Churches, by Richard Hunter
• Moving Faith to a New Location, by David Abbot
• Leading Beyond the Walls
• Planting a Garden
• A Leading Ideas Interview with Adam Hamilton
  

Outreach and Growth

• Deliberate Outreach Strategy Leads to Growth by Randy Guess
• By Any Means Necessary by Jacqueline Lewis
• Everyone Welcome? by Gary Shockley
• Megachurches as Resources for Learning by Asa Lee
• An Even Better Way to Track Attendance in the New Year by Lovett Weems
• Book Review: The Multi-Site Church Revolution by Dottie Yunger
• We Need More Young Families with Children by Lovett Weems
• A Single Voice by Kevin Brown
• Marketing Your Church to the Community by Peter Metz
• Can White Mainline Churches Outside the South Reach New Christians by Lovett Weems
• The Tully Principal of 52 Equal Sundays, by Lovett Weems
• Should Your Church Change the Worship Time for the Super Bowl?, by Adam Hamilton
• Measuring Church Numerical Growth Is Not as Easy as It Seems, by George Bullard
• Learning to See and Listen to Younger Adults, by Susan Cox-Johnson
• A Two-Point Charge Launches a Satellite Contemporary Worship Service, by Amy Yarnall
• Pitfalls to Avoid in Reaching a Younger Constituency, by Lovett Weems
• Needs Based Evangelism, by Robert Pierson
• Leading Worship for Those Not There Yet, by Bishop Jonathan Gledhill
• Which Comes First - Belief or Belonging?, by Lovett Weems
• Leading Beyond the Walls

 Pastoral Ministry

• Ministry as Leadership by Daniel O. Aleshire
• Living in Paradox- The Life of American Clergy by Lovett Weems
• Watching Over one Another in Love: A Wesleyan Model of Ministry Assessment by Gwen Purushotham
• Keeping Your Ministry Fresh and Creative, by Jim Somerville
• Assessing the State of Pastoral Ministry, by David McAllister-Wilson
• Sources of Authority for Pastoral Leadership, by Lovett Weems
• Leading in the Wilderness: Thoughts on 21^st Century Pastoral Identity, by Dwight Zscheile

 Pastoral Transitions

• Pastoral Transitions - Leaving Well by Lovett H. Weems
• Pastoral Transitions - Preparing the Way for Your Successor by Lovett H. Weems
• A Pastor Describes Her First Day in a New Community
• Four Challenges in Pastoral Transitions by Lovett H. Weems
• Lessons for Clergy Preparing to Leave a Congregation, by Lawrence W. Farris
• Ten Commandments for Pastors Leaving a Congregation, by Lawrence W. Farris
• A pastor describes her first Sunday in a new congregation
• 10 Commandments for Pastors New to a Congregation

Planning and Visioning

• Spiritual Leaders and Vision, by Bishop John R. Schol
• A Church that Feeds Body and Soul: Helping an Older Congregation Discover the Song of their Heart, by Michele McGrath
• Developing a Strategy for Your Congregation, by Bishop Jonathan Gledhill
• The Church of the Good Air, by Rhonda Van Dyke Colby
• The Bon Air Hymn
• Prayer & Fasting Lead to a New Mission and a Mission Prayer, by Peter Moon
• Four Questions for Congregations, by Lovett Weems
• A Simple Planning Process, by Lovett Weems
• Demographics and Leadership, by Lovett Weems
  

Reaching Younger People

• A Generation of Tinkerers By Erika Gara
• 17 Ways to Welcome College Students
• Why Young Clergy Matter by Lovett Weems and Ann Michel
• Why We are Losing Ground with Young Adults by Marty J. Cauley
• Tips for Welcoming Young People
• Serving Our Young Adults by David E. Gray
• Young Adults and the Future of the Church by Ann Michel
• Ministering to the Missing Generation by Carol Howard Merrit
• A Single Voice by Kevin Brown
• Learning to See and Listen to Younger Adults by Susan Cox-Johnson

Small Membership Churches

• Small Churches As Healthy Family Systems, by Lewis A. Parks
• A United Methodist Pastor Reflects on the Benefits of Longer Appointments, by Bruce Bennett
• Leadership and the Small Membership Church, by Lovett Weems
• Everybody Here Knows Me
• Transformation of Small Membership Churches, by Lovett Weems
• Web Review - Small Membership Church Sites
• Opening Up the Small Membership Church, by Lovett Weems
• A pastor of a rural church tells how a personal spiritual quest led to church renewal

Spirituality and Leadership

• Leadership and Spirituality by Lovett H. Weems, Jr.
• A pastor of a rural church tells how a personal spiritual quest led to church renewal

Stewardship and Finance

• Helping Our Children Become Worshipful Givers, by Melvin and James Amerson
• New Ways for Church Members to Give by Lovett Weems
• Paying Attention to Those Who Give and Those Who Don't by Steve Wende
• Motivating Generous Giving, by Scott Cormode
• God’s Leaders Multiply, not Maintain, by Peter Moon
• A More Accurate Way to Measure Giving Through the Year, by Lovett Weems
• Leadership for Giving, by Lovett Weems
• The Gift, by Ann Michel

Women and Leadership

• Women and Leadership: New Ways of Thinking, by Ann Michel
• Backtalk! Women Leaders Changing the Church, by Mary Moschella

 Worship

• Introducing a Congregation to Contemporary Worship, by Dianne Cochran
• Stilling the Storm by Kathleen S. Smith
• The Tully Principal of 52 Equal Sundays, by Lovett Weems
• Should Your Church Change the Worship Time for the Super Bowl?, by Adam Hamilton
• Inside the Organic Church: Learning from 12 Emerging Congregations, by Matt Miofsky
• A Two-Point Charge Launches a Satellite Contemporary Worship Service, by Amy Yarnall
• Resources for Satellite Worship, by Dottie Yunger
• Leadership for Worship, by Lovett Weems
• Vignette - Leading Worship for Those Not There Yet, by Bishop Jonathan Gledhill

Youth Ministry

• Strong Youth Ministry and the Call to Ministry by Robert Schnase
• Learning to See and Listen to Younger Adults, by Susan Cox-Johnson
• A Healthy Youth Group
• Encouraging Youth to Consider Ordained Ministry
• Making Church Matter for Youth, by Ann Michel
• What I Learned from a Group of Unruly Youth, by Will Rowan
• Predictors of Youth Returning to Church as Adults, by Lovett Weems

Books Reviewed  

• The Myth of the 200 Barrier: How to Lead through Transitional Growth by Kevin E. Martin, July 30, 2008
• The Ministry of the Missional Church by Craig Van Gelder, June 16, 2008
• Book Notes by Lovett Weems, June 4, 2008
• What's Theology Got to Do With It?
• Church on the Edge of Somewhere
• Stilling the Storm by Kathleen S. Smith
• Some Resources for Coaching
• True North:Discovering Your Authentic Leadership by Kim Risedorph
• Marketing Your Church to the Community by Peter Metz
• Watching Over one Another in Love: A Wesleyan Model of Ministry Assessment by Gwen Purushotham
• How to Treat a Staff Infection: Resolving Problems in Your Church or Ministry Team by Craig and Carolyn Williford
• Leadership from the Inside Out by Wesley Granberg-Micahelson, Reviewed by John Winn
• Ten Commandments for Pastors Leaving a Congregation, by Lawrence W. Farris
• Backtalk! Women Leaders Challenging the Church, by Susan Willhauck
• Children’s Ministry, by Judy Comstock
• Christian Relections on the Leadership Challenge, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, editors
• Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times: Being Calm and Courageous No Matter What, by Peter Steinke
• Death by Meeting, by Patrick Lencioni
• Ducking Spears and Dancing Madly, by Bruce Birch and Lew Parks
• Go Big with Small Groups: Eleven Steps to an Explosive Small Group Ministry, by Bill Easum and John Atkinson
• Good to Great and the Social Sciences, by Jim Collins
• A Healthy Youth Group, by Amy Jocober
• Inside the Organic Church: Learning from 12 Emerging Congregations, by Bob Whitesell
• Leadership Essentials: Practical Tools for Leading in the Church, by Carol Cartmill and Yvonne Gentile
• Leadership from the Heart, by Carol Cartmill and Yyone Gentile
• Leading Beyond the Walls, by Adam Hamilton
• Needs-Based Evangelism, by Robert Pierson
• People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States, by Michael Emerson and Rodney Woo
• Planting a Garden, by Linda S. McCoy
• Projects that Matter: Successful Planning and Evaluation for Religious Organizations, by Kathleen Cahalan
• Servant Leadership: Jesus and Paul, by Efrain Agosto
• Simply Strategic Growth, by Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan
• Ten Commandments for Pastors New to a Congregation, by Lawrence Farris
• United by Faith and Divided by Faith
• You Only Have to Die, by James Harnish

 Web Reviews

• Web Review - Congregational Resources Guide
• Web Review - Christian Leaders
• Web Review - Small Membership Church Sites
• Web Review - US Congregations

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