Posts by Renee Weber
RocketCast 016: How To Increase Giving With The Most Overlooked Time Of Your Service
The few minutes just before you take up the offering each week, is often the least planned time of your weekend service, but could have the most impact on your weekly giving. Casey Graham talks about how to do a Giving Talk each week to help your congregation better understand the impact of their giving…
Read MoreRocketCast 015: How To Preach A Sermon People Will Remember
People don’t remember sermons – they remember statements. Jeff Henderson, lead pastor of Gwinnett Church and regular communicator at North Point Community Church in the Atlanta area, shares how to create memorable statements for your sermons. These “sticky” statements will be what people remember days, even months, after your sermon. There is a unique formula…
Read MoreRocketCast 014: How To Recruit Volunteers Without Begging
Ben Crawshaw shares 6 steps to recruit more volunteers. Ben has served in a variety of churches – from a small rural church to the largest church at North Point Community Church. He has led thousands of student pastors through XP3 Curriculum and High School Camp at Orange/ReThink Group. His the author of Make Believe. He…
Read MoreRocketCast 013: Five Ways to Make Easter Your Best Service of the Year
Todd Fields talks about the five ways you can make Easter your best service of the year. He walks through how to engage people, prepare your volunteers and create a worship service that will have people wanting to come back next week. Listen now and get ready for this Easter weekend
Read MoreRocketCast 010: How To Find Your Unique Preaching Voice – Whiteboard Wednesday
As pastors and church leaders, we have a unique opportunity to stand up and speak in front of people. For many of us though, we aren’t aware of the strengths and weaknesses of our own preaching “voice” or style. The result? Our sermons aren’t as effective as they could be. In this Whiteboard session, Pastor…
Read MoreRocketCast 008: 5 Factors That Increase Church Giving – Listen Now
Casey Graham recently hosted a LIVE training event on our Wednesday Whiteboard session. Listen as he teaches the best practices to creating or improving your digital giving experience in your church. Download the training slides here
Read MoreWhy are Pastors Scared to Take Up an Easter Offering?
Churches are usually scared to take up an Easter Offering because of the amount of people who will be attending the church for the first time. Pastors tell me that they have a fear of scaring off newcomers. In every church where a pastor has pressed through this fear and held an Easter Offering anyway,…
Read MoreYour Church Can Find Predictable Success
Les McKeown is the author of Predictable Success, a book that has greatly influenced our company. A little more than a month ago, we attended a one-day workshop in Boston with Les, and how he’s coaching us through some big issues. That’s why I’m excited to host a free webinar with Les on the predictable success model.…
Read MorePreparing For the Fall (Part 4 of 4)
The more advanced you are in your planning, the better things will be when you get there. “It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” Whitney Young Fall is a great time to fund missional projects through a one-year financial initiative…
Read MoreTime is Money
Are you currently friends with someone who had a bad first impression of you when you first met? After your friendship progressed to the “honest” stage, he or she came clean with their initial thoughts of you: “When I first met you, I didn’t like you.” “I thought you were fake.” “You acted like an…
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