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Making Disciples
Soul Care Begins With the Pastor
According to the apostle Paul, the pastor’s first priority in soul care ministry is to himself. Paul’s exhortation to the Elders of the...
Bud Brown
3 min read
The Wealthy Pauper
The wealthy pauper has abundant wealth but is impoverished in soul and spirit. What does it mean to be “rich toward God?” Jesus...
Bud Brown
3 min read
The high cost of low expectations
The American Church is suffering the high cost of low expectations. I’m not referring to the low expectations that consumer driven...
Bud Brown
5 min read
Every sermon must include this
Preachers are never lacking in what to preach. Topical and verse-by-verse preachers share the same library of 66 books. Every page is...
Bud Brown
3 min read
The Turnaround Pastor’s Greatest Challenge: Making Disciples
What’s the Turnaround Pastor’s greatest challenge, the one that outweighs all others? Maybe you think it’s one of these: Getting the...
Bud Brown
9 min read
Where would you draw the line?
How would you react when the church you’re serving as an intentional interim pastor gets wrapped around the axle over a basic...
Bud Brown
2 min read
I’m a guest blogger!
Check out my guest post “ How Does Jesus Want Us To Handle Money ?” at Ray Edwards’ website. Ray is a direct response copy writer, a man...
Bud Brown
1 min read
Who’s your neighbor now? 4 Answers.
If you’re an intentional interim pastor you’ll eventually have to answer the question. It will come up because you – the deliberate...
Bud Brown
3 min read
Giving from the left and right brain
You’re at your first Board meeting at a new client church. You’ve been retained as the intentional interim pastor to help them prepare...
Bud Brown
4 min read
What if Paul was wrong?
This is part of the Synchro Blog April meme. This month we invite you to play the ‘what if’ game with us. Try to imagine that some or...
Bud Brown
3 min read
On church health from “Blow Ups or Grow Ups: Strategic Issues for Turnaround Churches”
In this second of two posts reviewing “Blow Ups Or Grow Ups: Strategic Issues For Turnaround Churches” [1] In the first post I reviewed...
Bud Brown
2 min read
Four dangers interim pastors face
I was recently delighted to hear that one of the men in the church I’m currently serving is “wild about your sermons.” I felt gratified...
Bud Brown
3 min read
I learned to be a good interim pastor on a sailboat
A reverse Transpac from Honolulu to Santa Cruz, CA on a 32′ Westsail made me a better interim pastor. I was on hiatus between churches...
Bud Brown
6 min read
10 things you won’t learn in seminary [Updated]
Invariably seasoned and successful pastors who train for a second vocational career as an intentional interim pastor will say, “Why...
Bud Brown
2 min read
God provides all a transitioning church needs – ahead of time!
Finances have become a recurring problem that intentional interim pastors must help the congregation solve. Earlier in my interim...
Bud Brown
3 min read
Hope for the wounded pastor
Pastors who have been scarred, wounded and bruised – often the result of a forced exit – may wonder if they’ll ever again be used in the...
Bud Brown
1 min read
The Human Brain Resists Change
Our brains create powerful nerual pathways known as “habits” that help us get through the day. They are very difficult to unlearn. The...
Bud Brown
1 min read
Four Powerful Reasons Your Church Should Celebrate Pentecost
Quick question! When is Pentecost Sunday this year? Sunday, May 20. Did you know? Maybe not. Why? Because there is no “Pentecost...
Gary Westra
3 min read
1 Key to Church Turnaround
I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I was. After all, our church has been in sustained evangelistic prayer for more than a year. We...
Bud Brown
13 min read
Ministry metrics: the hard and soft measurements
The church I’m currently serving as the intentional interim pastor has the Annual Business meeting scheduled for the last Sunday in...
Bud Brown
3 min read
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