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Are you depressed about the direction of culture? Maybe it’s time to change your perspective! There are great movements that are turning to God in remarkable ways. Perhaps we all need to spend more time examining what God is actually doing in our day, in our communities. Read More

The concept of formally examining communication within churches is a pretty new phenomenon. Here are some good tips for getting started (and these are for more than just larger churches!). 5 Ways to Execute a Communications Strategy Taking a look at the way your church Read More

The world is tired of hearing from an arrogant church. The world is tired of hearing its weak logic and easy platitudes. The world is tired of being looked down on by the church, or being viewed as a “pet project”. But the world is eager to hear about our real, true Read More

New technology brings new capabilities and new options. But it also brings new challenges. Below is a slightly tongue-in-cheek post that highlights some of both. While this is all about the iPad, we are totally fine with you using these tips and techniques with any tablet or Read More

One of the most intriguing, and potentially frustrating, issues that many of us face is church health. There aren’t precise markers to make us keenly aware of it. And there isn’t one exact formula to fix it when it starts to go wrong. Congregants and leaders have Read More

In church media channels, there is a ongoing conversation concerning what the purpose of church is, and what it should be.  (In fact, we will be covering this topic in the next Pulse!) Should it be feeding the faithful, or should it be reaching in the unreached? This blog post is Read More

One of our church planters highlighted a post on Christianity Today that addresses the phenomenon of “church hopping”. This often gets a bad rap from people who assume that church hopping implies a lack of commitment, or a consumeristic “me-first” Read More

This post has shown up a few places on the radar recently. Moral outrage may not be as much of a divisive problem in Canada as it is in the US right now, and it may not be as prevalent within the EFCC as other movements, but let’s not kid ourselves. We’re no strangers Read More

We were just made aware that EFCC pastor, Chad Graham was part of a brief conversation about the real reason for the season hosted by CBC radio this morning. To check it out, click here. Nice work, Chad! We just never know whose curiosity might be piqued by hearing something like that. Read More

The blog post below examines a top-ten list of signs of organisational health. It was written as a reflection of Patrick Lencioni’s latest book, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business. That book has become very important to us here at Read More