I love the team I get to serve with at Cross Point! Seriously, they are family and they mean the world to Jackie and I. However, I heard a quote the other day that was amazing: "Everyone loves you until you lead." Even in the most family, relational, caring teams...

Equity in an organization is so important. You are always either spending or collecting equity. Far to often we overvalue our collections and under sell our spends. Equity builds trust. Creative teams can create all day long but if the rest of the organization does...

Creating products is the easy part of our jobs. We do it every day and it’s our job. But when we’re building creative teams, one of the most important variables we can work on is the culture we’re creating within our teams. The atmosphere and environment we create are...

Photo Props: Being an artist or creative person can be frustrating at times. We’re asked to create things that matter, connect, and are cool – but not too cool. We live our lives in the open and we have the things we make critiqued and picked apart. All of this...

Most churches don’t have the resources necessary to field a full creative team. We all know that volunteers are the lifeblood of most of our ministries. So how do we promote creativity with our volunteers? Permission volunteers to use their gifts. – Volunteers often...