Solutions

Hey Solutions readers!  A lot has gone on since my last post.  Incredible things like uggghhh the Saints winning the Super Bowl!  Didn’t see that one happening, but it did.  What else?  Oh, our NPH Team Central Facebook is growing in the # of fans.  We are excited about that.  Valentines came and went.  I [...]

It’ll be here before you know it!  Actually it is here!  Valentines Day is upon us and you need some worship/liturgy help in the area of lighthearted drama sketches.  Well…you know what I’m going to say…yep…I’ve got some hints for you.  I’m so predictable.
Give these a shot and let me know what you think if [...]

Worship Leader Magazine reviewed our newest Easter musical, Ascend to Heaven in their January/February 2010 issue.

Here’s what Worship Leader’s Warren Anderson thought:
Sometimes what services worship leaders best at Easter are options. [Ascend to Heaven ] is a collection of brand new tunes from a variety of heretofore unfamiliar (to this reviewer) writers - [...]

This is the - “we are here for you” post of 2010!  As I mentioned in my last post, we at NPH are going through a transition so that we can be better prepared and equipped to serve the resource and missional needs of local church pastors and churches.  Specific to me and the NPH [...]

Today marks the day of something that looks familiar but is slightly different.  For the past five years I have spent the majority of my days in ministry at Nazarene Publishing House listening to, praying with, and dreaming with pastors on how NPH can better serve them and partner with them concerning their missional goals [...]

Today my post reflects on the Advent thought that the babe that did lay in the manger in Bethlehem so long ago was indeed the Messiah for all people and in fact “the Way, the Truth and the Life.”  My thoughts however could not be better articulated except in the words of my friend Thomas [...]

This is Chapter 11 from The Pastor’s Guide to Growing a Christlike Church .  Adam is pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS.  My thoughts - Let’s keep it simple but purposeful pastors.
FREQUENTLY PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT WE DID WHEN OUR CHURCH
was just starting that was most important to its later growth and [...]

The year 2010 is nearly here and although you may be enjoying Advent/Christmas all the parties and festivities if you are a pastor your mind is somewhat down the road and into the new year.  No doubt you are considering in prayer or in action the themes, missional purposes, and sermon ideas of the new [...]

This is a copy of something Bill Easum wrote on 8/24/09.  Normally I would write my own stuff, but I found this engaging and thought provoking and thought maybe you’d have some thoughts.  A rare post for me, but I just thought Easum’s thoughts were super relevant.  BTW - On # 4, Adam Hamilton of [...]

Pastors are typically by nature an optimistic breed of people.  Those of us in the ‘holiness movement’ of Christian clergy would most likely describe ourselves as generally and sanctifiably optimistic about the future, life, the Church and so on.  But what happens when strongly fortified pastoral optimism turns into shades of ministerial numbness?  Then what?  [...]