by Tracee Swank | Aug 13, 2026 | change, church, church health, growth
“If we change that, we won’t be the same church.” Someone on your leadership team has said it. Maybe it was you, staring at a giving report or an empty row that used to be full. It sounds like conviction. Most of the time, it’s...
by Susan Hayward | Jul 30, 2026 | church, church health, spiritual gifts
Do you belong to a church that is struggling to find enough volunteers to complete ministry tasks? Is it always the same small group of individuals who “volunteer” repeatedly, finding themselves eventually “burning out”? Are you constantly filling “round holes with...
by Susan Hayward | Jul 23, 2026 | church, mission, spiritual gifts
You may have taken a spiritual gifts class along with a spiritual gifts survey in the past to discover your unique spiritual gifts. All too often, when the class ended, so did your involvement with your spiritual gifts. I invite you to create a spiritual gifts...
by Susan Hayward | Jul 9, 2026 | church, Kingdom, spiritual gifts
I felt a stirring from deep within me as I listened to the report from Church Doctor Ministries. That stirring grew into a strong tug over the next several days. Each time I reread the “Spiritual Health/Connected by Serving” section of the report, I grew more...
by Tracee Swank | Nov 26, 2025 | church, church health, leadership
The Problem Too many churches operate in survival mode. Leaders focus on Sunday, not strategy. Communication breaks down. Trust weakens. When culture suffers, even strong ministries lose momentum. The Insight Culture is not formed by accident. It grows through...
by Rupert Loyd | Nov 24, 2025 | church, church health, community, Kingdom, leadership
When the Scoreboard Goes Dark You can win on the church scoreboard and still lose yourself. Every pastor knows how to hustle—write the sermon, run the meeting, make the visit, attend the conference. But what happens when the scoreboard goes dark? When the services...
