Category: Blog

  • Remodeling your online ministry

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    St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Needville, Texas, is doing a new thing: they are starting a capital campaign to remodel their fellowship hall. As a side project they also wanted their website redone. They had a narrative budget that provided a convincing structure. Their most current content happens on Facebook and via email. Sermons are…

  • Military Maxims From US Grant’s Memoires

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    General Grant elaborates in great detail on various major campaigns of the Civil War. For this slide show I extracted 28 nuggets of military wisdom. Timeless lessons, adages, sayings, that everyone interested in military leadership can appreciate. May they become helpful quotes for your leadership. Military Maxims From US Grant’s Memoires from Daniel Haas

  • Free audio books for hospice workers – and anyone, really

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    I am a hospice chaplain. That means I drive a lot. All home health professionals do. And there are certain challenges that come with that lifestyle: How do you eat a healthy yet satisfying lunch while “living on the road”? What do you listen to all day? Honestly, I have not cracked the code for…

  • Praying against your enemies

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    On Thursday will be the 75th anniversary of D-Day. A day on which President Roosevelt prayed for the success of Operation Overlord. The stated goal was to crush the Nazi regime. So praying to God in this situation must be a prayer against the enemies, right? Absolutely not. Great people pray for all God’s children,…

  • No Car No Gun

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    Over the past five years, the congregation that I serve has experienced one suicide per year. They only have 180 members. In my church, the suicide rate is 1 out of 180 every year. Why is that? Research indicates two main contributing factors: Age- related conditions Access to firearms I remember one church member who…