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What Worship Leaders Wish Pastors Knew

What Worship Leaders Wish Pastors Knew

Buffer Worship leaders often feel like life would be much different if only the pastor understood how they felt. Many worship leaders tend to be people pleasers. They don’t want to “rock the boat” by pointing out what they truly need. In some situations, the pastors are so busy and overwhelmed that have no clue about what challenges a worship leader is facing. Both the worship pastor/leader ... Read More »

20 Best Will Graham Quotes to Encourage Your Walk with Christ

20 Best Will Graham Quotes to Encourage Your Walk with Christ

Buffer Will Graham (@TellaGraham) currently serves as Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), in addition to providing leadership and oversight at The Cove training center in Asheville, NC. Following in the footsteps of his father Franklin Graham and grandfather Billy Graham, Will passionately preaches the Gospel and shares Christ’s love with those around him. He has traveled around ... Read More »

25 Bryan Loritts Quotes to Challenge Every Leader

25 Bryan Loritts Quotes to Challenge Every Leader

Buffer Bryan Loritts ( @bcloritts ) is a husband, father, and the pastor of preaching and mission at Trinity Grace Church in New York City (he previously served as the Lead Pastor at Fellowship Memphis in Memphis Tennessee). He is a powerful speaker who is deeply passionate about multi-ethnic ministry and church life. He also serves as the director of Kainos, a multi-ethnic ... Read More »

3 Basics of Effective Preaching

3 Basics of Effective Preaching

Buffer Preachers live under high expectations. We stand before a group of people who chose to listen to us because somewhere they got the impression we can explain truths of eternal significance and provide effective preaching on a weekly basis.  Many people think effective preachers can instruct them on how to live more meaningful lives.  Some even think effective preachers  speak ... Read More »

Moody Bible Institute’s Founders Week 2015

Moody Bible Institute’s Founders Week 2015

Buffer Founder’s Week is a Moody Bible Institute annual tradition. Beginning in 1901 it celebrates February 5th, the birthday of pastor and MBI founder Dwight Lyman Moody. Founder’s week has always been completely free of charge. Often Moody alumni come back to Chicago for class reunions during Founder’s Week to experience it all over again. To listen or watch the musical ... Read More »

5 Reasons You and I Need Outside Input

5 Reasons You and I Need Outside Input

Buffer Everyone battles arrogance at some level. Yes…even you and me. Does that statement frustrate you? If so, I get it. It frustrates me as well. You know why? We all struggle with arrogance. We hate admitting that we don’t know it all or can’t do everything. When the skills of others supersede our own, we feel inferior. We hate ... Read More »

10 Ways to Evaluate Your Public Speaking

10 Ways to Evaluate Your Public Speaking

Buffer Evaluation stinks. Better said, we think it does. Taking intentional steps to evaluate our public speaking scares the life out of many of us. I’ll never forget the first time someone evaluated my public speaking. It hurt. I felt bloodied and beaten down. Then I realized the gift I had just received. I needed their feedback. Their evaluation kept ... Read More »

10 Lessons in Leadership from Stuart Scott

10 Lessons in Leadership from Stuart Scott

Buffer Thanks Stuart Scott! Thanks for all the ways you enriched our lives. You taught us lessons we can only hope to apply half as well as you over the next few decades. You walked with us. You inspired us. You died Sunday and we all still find ourselves in a collective shock. I could tell endless stories about Stuart ... Read More »

How to Find Your Speaking Voice: The Most Crucial Step

How to Find Your Speaking Voice: The Most Crucial Step

Buffer A guest post by Marc Schelske. I’ve been a professional speaker for… well…  a little more than 20 years now. I’m closing in on a thousand presentations. In two decades I experienced a series of stages. Maybe some of these are familiar to you: There was the “Karaoke stage” where I tried speaking in the style and tone of ... Read More »

Teachers Learn From Students: 5 Lessons My Students Taught Me This Fall

Teachers Learn From Students: 5 Lessons My Students Taught Me This Fall

Buffer I learn as much, if not more, from my students every time I teach anything. How about you? Those of us who teach, lead teams or speak at events, experience this phenomena regularly. I walk in expecting to teach others, but end up feeling like I had more to learn than anyone else in the room. This past semester ... Read More »