When it comes to indoor plants, it seems that I have a brown thumb. I'm not proud of this, but every single plant in my office has died. The poor things never make it more than six months. When I moved into my new office, a coworker helped me and purchased a fiddle-leaf fig plant. It looked so good …

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Completing primary and secondary school typically takes 12 years to complete. Depending on the type of degree a student is working toward, it can take anywhere from 2 to 8 years, possibly more. The typical gestation period for a human is 280 days. And, it takes about 15-17 minutes to bake chocolate …

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If you are putting your church budget together, it is safe to say you are wrestling with the problems associated with compensation. Challenges like avoiding wage stagnation, providing benefits (an ever-increasing piece of the budget), and finding funds to add new staff. On top of all that, …

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Before being called into full-time ministry in 2006, I was part of the first wave of computer tech support. In those days, tech support needed to cover hardware basics, like setting the dip switches on a modem (can you hear the screeching sound of a successful connection?). And answering software …

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When attendance and giving are up, creating a church budget is so much easier. Everyone is optimistic about the future and how powerfully God is working in their church, and words like "blessing" and "growth" are heard frequently throughout the process. But, what if the trendline is down? Declining …

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Shortly after I began working at our church, I noticed that not all the offices had windows. Some of that was logistics; there was not enough wall space for each office to have a window. For some on staff, it became a touchy subject because they counseled people and needed privacy. And others in the …

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