Author Archives: Tree of Life Church

The start of a new series in this leadership blog on the power of a team.  Today, I want to talk about something dear to my heart and that is about raising up people as you move forward, rather than stepping on people to move forward. If you are a leader you will move forwardContinue reading “The Power of a Team (part 1 – We All Go Together)”

10.  Buy a hamper.  Give everyone a ticket as they come in.  Hold a raffle in the middle of the service. 9.  Play a really old well known hymn.  Even use the original tune.  Belt it out! 8.  Receive the offering to the tune of Yakkety Sax. 7.  Give the people bingo cards with veryContinue reading “10 Things You Can Do This Sunday to Make Church More Fun For Everyone”

The grace people in the UK (indeed many people in the UK) are still too small minded, looking at maintaining house groups and sustaining groups of 20 people.  I am not against small groups – we all started small, and I still regularly preach to crowds of people under 10 as we are starting newContinue reading “10 Reasons You Need to Grow Your Church in 2016”

This Sunday has been awesome.  Great carol service in Dagenham, someone got saved and people got healed, and I know I haven’t heard all the testimonies yet.  It was a really awesome service, and loads of people have benefited from the message. Then  a swift drive to Guildford to enjoy the Christmas party of ourContinue reading “Merry Christmas!”

I’ve deliberately written this post to senior and lead pastors of churches, because one of the things that really messes up church growth is promoting the wrong people.  It’s also true in businesses as well – promoting the wrong people will destroy your business, and promoting the right people will propel it forward.  So ifContinue reading “Who To Promote?”

It’s a bit of a long winded title this evening, but I can’t think of a pithy way of saying this: a lot of pastors are jealous of other pastors.  They struggle with jealous and envy towards other pastors they perceive to be more successful than themselves.  Then other pastors struggle because people that theyContinue reading “The Danger of Jealousy and Selfish Ambition in Ministry”

I am preparing for Sunday this morning, writing a church bulletin, reviewing my sermon, making sure people are in place to do what needs to be done.  And I thought this preview from this Sunday morning’s message might really help some people: You see, New Year’s Resolutions don’t work.  You know it and I know it.Continue reading “Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work (And What to Do About It!)”

Ok, so accusations are powerful.  They hurt, they cause trouble, they can de-rail your entire ministry.  So what do you as a leader and pastor do about them? Pray! Praying for someone to experience the blessings of Christ is the exact opposite to accusing.  Pray for who?  Those who persecute you! Pray for all theContinue reading “Accusation 04:Dealing with It”

What are the different ways in which the devil uses people to accuse you.  Some are blindingly obvious – like a direct allegation, others are a lot more subtle and you may not even realize that they are an accusation. Here are seven ways in which the devil manipulates people to accuse you: A DirectContinue reading “Accusation 03: The Kinds of Accusations”

In our last post, we discussed the fact that the devil is the accuser of the brethren and his plan is to accuse you through people close to you.  We analysed what accusations are like and why they happen. Now I want to look at the kind of people who might accuse you.  Satan wouldContinue reading “Accusation 02: The devil’s staff”