Mark & Grace Driscoll’s book Real Marriage made #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list this week. That’s a major accomplishment for any author, particularly in the Christian genre. SOURCE Mars Hill Church’s blog on the topic

The economy is still in a hard place; and so are some churches.  So what do you do when you have valuable staff, but you’re not able to show your appreciation with a raise in salary? Liz Ryan has worked in corporate HR for over 20 years.  Recently, Matt Branaugh from Managing Your Church sat down with her and asked: What is one immediate thing many churches can do to reward staff, absent of a pay raise or a new health benefit, but might overlook? Here is her response: “We tend to think of churches or nonprofit organizations and assume they have a special burden because they don’t...

Leaders of some of the largest religious communities in the United States have joined together in an open letter to all Americans to voice their shared concern for marriage and religious freedom….Signatories include leaders from Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish, Lutheran, Mormon, and Pentecostal communities in the United States.  Here is the letter. Dear Friends: The promotion and protection of marriage—the union of one man and one woman as husband and wife—is a matter of the common good and serves the wellbeing of the couple, of children, of civil society and all people.The...

It’s what every pastor and church leaders fears.  A youth worker arrested on suspicion of child molestation. That’s what happened recently at Highlands Church in Scottsdale, AZ; a church of about 3,000 people. An article in AZCentral tells of a meeting the church called after the arrest.  Here’s the part that stuck out to me from the article: Now all volunteers – even parents – will be the subject of background checks. Previously, the church conducted checks only on volunteers who worked with children younger than sixth grade. Wait. What?  This church wasn’t doing...

You know TMZ.com, right?  The celebrity gossip site and TV show? Well, what would you do if YOUR church made TMZ?  That’s what happened when a sign from Beulah Hill Baptist Church calling Beyonce’s new baby “SATAN” showed up on the show. The small West End, NC church is in the middle of controversy now. You can see more here. Wow… if you were the pastor here… how would YOU...