If faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains, how small is your faith? Often times, we think of our faith needing to be big! Now, I’m all for having a big faith that causes us to dream big dreams and take big risks. I’m all for that! But many times in our lives our faith seems small and wi…
Yesterday marked 10 years for us at Element Church . On one hand, it’s hard to believe we’ve gone 10 years since starting in the Carmike Theater. On the other, I ask myself, “where did 10 years go?” We’ve seen a lot in 10 years. Not all of it has been good, but God always has been, that’s for sure.…
The latest episode of the Infuse Leadership Podcast is now available on iTunes , on our website HERE and also right here on the blog below. The title of this episode is “I wanna be more like the devil.” In this episode we re-play for you a recent all staff talk that I gave to our staff in our monthl…
The newest episode of the Infuse Leadership Podcast is now available on iTunes , on our website HERE and also right here on the blog. The title of this episode is “Never Let Your Pastor Take A Sabbatical”… Unless you want him to come back revitalized, inspired and renewed. I recently got back from a…
When it comes to the workplace, staff culture is a massive subject. Entire blogs, books and business practices have been written and built around creating a healthy staff culture. Companies like Belay , Google , Amazon and more are being celebrated for the healthy, fun and inspiring staff cultures t…
Thanks for checking out jeffmaness.com. I am currently on a three month sabbatical with my family and will not be blogging during that time. Upon my return, I will pick up my normal blogging routine. Feel free to check out my previous blogs. If you’d like more information on what a sabbatical is and…
Episode 10 of the Infuse Leadership Podcast is now available on iTunes , on our website HERE and also right here on the blog. The title of this episode is “Tricking People To Follow Jesus.” This was actually born out of a question one of our listeners turned in, so we are super excited about that. O…
This past weekend at Element Church we continued our core values series called “This Is Us.” In this series we are walking through the six core values we have as a church. This week we talked about “A Place To Call Home: We will love people for who they are so we can lead them to where they need to…
In June my wife and I will celebrate 20 years of marriage and December will mark 20 years for me in full time ministry. Ten of those years have been at Element Church . Last month marked ten years of ministry for me here at Element. Wow! Ten years ago, my wife and I, our four kids and three other fa…
This last Sunday at Element Church we continued our sermon series called “This Is Us”. We are walking through the core values we have as a church. Values can’t just be the words we say, they need to be the way we live born out of what we believe because of who God is. This week we looked at core val…
Episode 9 of the Infuse Leadership Podcast is now available on iTunes , on our website HERE and also right here on the blog. The title of this episode is “Tricking People To Follow Jesus.” This was actually born out of a question one of our listeners turned in, so we are super excited about that. On…
Most leaders want a group of people who follow their orders, right? No leader wants to lead an organization where people don’t do what they say. That’s ridiculous. But of all the leadership principles, management styles and techniques you could employ out there, there is one thing that over shadows…
