In the course of business, I inevitably find myself traveling frequently. I spend a number of days each month on the road or in the air. Our clients are located across the US and even in other countries, and we try to visit and meet with them regularly.

You may find that you also need to travel from time to time. Some people enjoy traveling – the excitement of seeing new places and meeting new people. Others may find it somewhat of a nuisance. Traveling can be frustrating at times. It is often difficult to be away from home and family for extended periods of time. Whatever your opinion is about traveling, we’d like to offer some tips to help make your trips more enjoyable, efficient, and productive. (more…)

Our articles typically focus marketing, management, and fundraising – but at the beginning of this New Year we decided to take a week and talk specifically about church lfe and church growth. If you are a Pastor or a church leader … this article is for you.

The start of a new year – and a new decade – is very exciting. If you’re like the average American, you’ve probably already made a list of New Year’s resolutions you’d like to achieve over the next twelve months. The arrival of January 1st usually stirs up a lot of new ideas, and it can be a time when we often reflect on our lives. Are we who we want to be? What can we do to become the best version of ourselves? And why on earth did all those Christmas cookies go straight to the waistline?

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To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: (Eccl 3:1)

We live in a world filled with seasons: The calendar has four seasons … each follows the other with distinct purpose in the cycle of life that surrounds us. We just completed the Christmas holiday season and now to many it is the exercise-and-lose-weight season. Our lives, our work, even our sports are all seasonal.

Solomon was correct when he penned those famous words in Ecclesiastes … to everything there is a season.

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