Few pastors know how to preach a capital campaign series.  Failing here is where many a capital campaign is derailed.  For any church the most powerful tool for communicating the need and message of a capital campaign is the platform or pulpit.  Yet if you don’t use this... Read More

In this post I want to talk to you about how to preach a series on giving.  Before I do that I want to share with you key statistics about preaching on money from George Barna’s book “How to Increase Giving in Your Church.”  He found that churches in which pastors preach…... Read More

I want to give you 5 steps to use the power of the pulpit can increase your giving!  Barna says churches need to be “humble self promoters” and there is no better place for that to occur than the pulpit.  The sad truth however is that many pastors never use their greatest tool,... Read More

When it comes to stewardship even the best churches need help.  Consider North Point Community Church that ranked as the second largest church in North America.  I go to one of its satellites, Gwinnett Church.  As you can imagine North Point led by Senior Pastor Andy Stanley is a... Read More

Apologetic pastors are one reason giving has declined in America!  Let me illustrate this.  How many times have you heard a pastor at the offering time say something like this, “If you are a guest today please don’t feel like you have to give.  The offering is for our... Read More

Giving to the church is in decline.  Here is one reason why, the authors of “Passing the Plate” quote a study by Robert Wuthnow that found only 32 percent of American church members reported that they had heard a sermon on the relationship between faith and personal finances in... Read More