Healthy Rhythms

Practical notes on church financial health

Short, useful writing for pastors and church leaders on proactive financial leadership, funding your vision, and building the kind of financial health that lets your church do what God has called it to do. No jargon, no lectures. Just the things worth knowing from someone who has sat in both the pastor's seat and the CFO's seat.

7 Things Lead Pastors Don't Like to Do: They're All About Money

For more than thirty years I have had a seat most people never get. I have sat beside lead pastors as their CFO.

Setting Salaries, Including Your Own

7 Things Lead Pastors Don't Like to Do · Part 4 Setting Salaries, Including Your Own Two uncomfortable conversations in ministry are about paychecks. One is telling a staff member what the church can pay them, or cannot. The second is even more awkward. It is sitting in front of your board and talking about what the church pays you. Most pastors would rather do almost anything else. Money and relationships are tangled together, the budget is tight, and there is an unspoken se

Sitting Across the Table From a Lender

The first time I sat across the table from a lender on behalf of a church, I was certain I was about to be found out.

Asking the Congregation for Money

I have watched pastors preach with total freedom about forgiveness, marriage, suffering, sin, and then go strangely quiet when the subject turns to money.