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Hatchlings
Hatchlings is our blog dedicated to inspirational client stories and big ideas in ministry innovation. From astrophysics to farming to the church down the street, we believe that God-breathed, wild ideas can come from anywhere.
Smelling God
Our senses of smell are much better than we think they are. Humans can smell an odor-producing compound that exists at a level of 2 parts per billion of the air around them. Humans can actually smell at lower densities than dogs can.1 We just don’t know it. I was...
Proximity Matters
I was leading an on-site recently, where we were talking about nurturing the lives of children in congregations, when a participant reflected that “We often make these broad statements about wanting to bring up young people and then never get to know them; proximity...
Ministry Incubators on the Ministry Architects Podcast
Ministry Incubators is on the Ministry Architects Podcast! Ministry Architects is a group of coaches, consultants, and experts in church health, systems, and staffing. Ministry Incubators and Ministry Architects have long shared staff, resources, leadership (even a...
This One Cool Trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBiXQ-jjCcs Who hasn’t been seduced by a container store? Or put their hopes in a planner? Who hasn’t hoped that maybe it would be this supplement, this productivity tool, this online class that would provide the change we’re looking...
Growing Into
When I was in middle school, I remember thinking I didn’t feel like I thought “like a teenager,” but instead that I thought like a child some percent of the time, and an adult some percent of the time, and what people were reading as adolescence was just the average...
Generous Leadership
In Warren Buffett on Business: Principles From the Sage of Omaha, Buffet is quoted as saying that one of the most important things you can be as a leader is generous. He says that generosity is not just sharing resources (though it is that), but sharing credit,...