by Scott Ball | May 9, 2016 | Church Planting, Encouragement, Leadership, Strategic Leadership, Train Up
BREAK THROUGH BARRIERS. MAXIMIZE YOUR IMPACT. I'm Scott Ball, a strategy and leadership consultant for churches like yours. I work with The Malphurs Group to help your church grow the right way. Download my free guide and learn 10 Simple...
by Scott Ball | Mar 14, 2016 | Encouragement, Leadership, Pump Up, Teaching
Editor’s note: When I asked my colleague Tim Abraham to write what God put on his heart, I never expected a piece on politics. And this isn’t a site about politics. It’s a site about leadership. That said, journey through this wonderfully written...
by Scott Ball | Mar 10, 2016 | Encouragement, Heal Up, Teaching
Across all nationalities and all generations and all religions, suffering is the common human experience. For the past couple of days I’ve been writing a message that I’ll preach soon on the relationship between glory and suffering, but before I could get...
by Scott Ball | Feb 25, 2016 | Encouragement, Promotion, Pump Up, Team
Healthy Leaders + Healthy Churches = Gospel Impact. That’s the formula at the core of what I do as a writer, consultant, and coach. I firmly believe that when churches have a crystal clear picture of their mission, vision, values, strategies, and...
by Scott Ball | Feb 22, 2016 | Encouragement, Heal Up, Leadership, Management, Pump Up, Strategic Leadership, Team, Train Up
Left to itself, the universe tends towards chaos. This is the fundamental truth behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics. “The state of entropy of the entire universe, as an isolated system, will always increase over time.” Even when a productive reaction occurs in...
by Scott Ball | Feb 15, 2016 | Encouragement, Heal Up, Leadership, Pump Up, Small Groups, Strategic Leadership
Good coffee matters, and so does your theology of hospitality. This past summer, the church I was working at tried a different approach to small groups during the summer. Rather than encouraging groups to meet throughout the summer months in homes and compete with...