Posts by Jason Castellente

If you do what you’ve always done, you?ll get what you always got. That’s a popular saying around the church where I work. We believe

Each year, we celebrate the opportunity to do new things and achieve new goals. Through that growth, we can accomplish things that we never thought

Everybody?s working for the weekend. But, as church leaders, we work hard during the week so we can work even more on the weekend. It?s

Sometimes, we learn things the hard way. You did something you?ll never do again because you realized it was a bad decision, like giving a

When I first started my personal blog, I was obsessed with writing about the latest and greatest stuff on the market. At that point in

Cheasters. You know, the people who come to church on Christmas and Easter? It?s the two holidays that people tend to invite family members, friends,

You?re probably a jack-of-all-trades to some extent. Everyone has his or her actual job description, but how often do you actually stick to that? Or

At times we all wish we could start over. Start from scratch. Maybe our sound system is a mess. Maybe our stage is overwhelmed with

We have our weeks where things go great and we have weeks where things go…not so great. There are a number of feelings and emotions

Two guys walk into a Starbucks. They grab their coffee and sit down. One pulls out a book to read and flips to the first

There?s an invisible problem in many of our church services. It?s a division that can happen, even in a perfectly executed service. The congregation won?t

I was treating it like a typical service, even though we had some special guests.? When I do that, my team performs more consistently. They

Every church has them ? the mysterious creature lurking in the shadows that typically goes unnoticed until something disastrous happens.? Then, you see it!? Sometimes

Living in our world means being torn in different directions ? whether by people, technology, work, or issues from the past week. Being part of