A few weeks at the church, I made a mistake. Not a big mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. A mistake that cost us, not much, but a little bit of money, about $30 for some overnight shipping. I know that’s not much, but it still constitutes as a mistake. We used to have nothing but [...]

I heard some very upsetting news a couple weeks ago.

There’s a church, who shall remain unknown to you, who is having some… Problems. It’s actually a very big problem. A big problem of integrity. A big problem of responsibility. A big problem of obedience to God, honestly.

Finances.

This church was one of the first it’s the [...]

I tweeted out the other day during the NFL Preseason game of the Broncos vs. the Steelers that FOX has a very nice new logo and scoreboard graphic they use during the game.

I also said that I’m probably a dork for noticing, but I think that’s ok.

Here’s the graphics package from last season taken from [...]

No.

I’m not really going to give you 5 steps to train your volunteers. That’s not really my style. I don’t do “steps”. But what I will give you, that I think would be even more helpful than 5 steps, are 5 of the things I actually do FOR our volunteers. These are things that I’ve [...]

All I have to say, and all I really can say, is WOW!

The Drive Conference put on by Northpoint was an incredible experience. I’ll go ahead and tell you that in my opinion, it’s the best church leadership conference out there. It really is. It was that good. If I could only go to 1 [...]

The other day on the “Crossroads 5 and 5″ I mentioned that we finally found the sweet spot in our sound system. I also said that it’s hard sometimes to get the sound you want when your pastor says, “I want our band to sound like _(Insert Name of MegaChurch Here).” And as I said [...]

Yesterday we talked about some of the things that make hard to create chemistry between band members when you have a lot of different musicians playing at different times.

At Crossroads, we’re trying to put some things in place to help us create chemistry between our different band members.

Probably the most important thing you can do [...]

Chemistry is an important thing in any relationship. Especially when it comes to your band members in your church. You can never overestimate the power that is added to the music when the band gets along, works well together, and enjoys playing with each other.

I’ve discovered that this can a little more difficult to achieve [...]

This is a very tricky subject. The reason I say it’s tricky is because nearly 100% of churches don’t and honestly can’t pay band members. With that being said, let me tell you that this is not a post about why you should or shouldn’t pay band members. Crossroads is the first church I’ve ever [...]

If you lead something, take some dang ownership of it!

Seriously. I’m tired of “leaders” who are too scared to actually lead. I’ve been seeing it more and more over the past couple years. It seems to be sort of an epidemic. It’s like no one really knows what a leader is any more. If you [...]