My Audio Book
STRANDED- THE REAL STORY OF PLANTING A CHURCH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD Church Planting is a serious business- it’s like mountain climbing...
The 7 Stages of Life
THE 7 STAGES OF LIFE encourages us to pinpoint the transitions of life from one decade to the next and run strong in the current...
First Break All The Rules
If great teamwork holds the key to a great future, how does one go about creating the ideal team? Why is it that the team we have varies greatly from the team we want!
Failure Is Not An ‘F’ Word
Most Christians think that failure is a bad thing. I beg to differ. Why is it that we spell faith as R.I.S.K.? If by faith we can order mountains to rocket off into the distance, why have there been whole mountain ranges that just haven’t budged, even when we’ve been full of faith!
14 Reasons Why Churches Grow
Most of us get threatened from time to time over the growth of someone else’s church. To ease the pressure, we often ‘box off’ the other church by labelling it with a connotation that could mean underhanded leadership or easy believerism!
The 80/20 Rule -Break It At Your Peril!
There is a rule that churches and their leaders are constantly trying to break – it’s the 80/20 rule. Good luck! I believe that it’s a universal rule and has never been broken in business, colleges or voluntary organisations anywhere in the world – ever! And it’s not about to be broken now by you!
The Truth Diet
DAVE’S NEW BOOK ‘THE TRUTH DIET’ IS NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE EBOOKS! THE TRUTH DIET CONTAINS OVER 180 PROTEIN CAPSULES OF WISDOM AND TRUTH FROM...
Pizzazz Factor
Why is it that some people who used to paint the town red now spend their time painting their church beige? God hates beige. There’s an enemy lurking around your back door and his name is ‘average’.
Wilderness vs Caanan
Many of the miracles that are publicly testified to in church life are wilderness miracles. Shoes that never wear out, food that simply arrives at the door, and unusual signs in the heavenlies are all things to which we give God all of the glory, but is that the high ground of the miraculous or simply the nursery slopes of the miraculous that God has in store for our lives?
The Transfer Market
The central aim of every leader isn’t just to get vision, but to transfer the vision to the hearts of the people. If the leader’s vision becomes every person’s vision, the achievement levels will break all records. Vision creation is vital, but vision transfer is essential.
Middle Child Syndrome – Why People Leave Church
Have you ever seen the comic sketch, ‘The Only Gay in the Village’? This famous Little Britain sketch is one of the most powerful observations...
The Reinvention Of Vision
If someone asked you what the vision of your church is, would you reply with goals and statistics, or with the type of person you’re looking to see emerge? Dave Gilpin investigates the pressures leaders are under to fabricate vision in order to fulfil the profile of a ‘visionary’ leader.
Let Your Eyes Be Bigger Than Your Stomach
“Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” They ought to be! Your ability to see your future should be greater than your ability to accomplish it. Dave Gilpin takes some hear’ say phrases and looks at the leadership truths behind them.
Head Games – What to do with the voices within
I admit it – at times I exhibit juvenile behaviour! Christmas has always been a favourite time of mine to relax, step out of the box and do some really silly things. As a minister, you have to be pretty grown up and pretty responsible most of the time, so on Christmas day, for many a year at around 2.30 in the afternoon, myself and my former associate pastor used to start giggling like two naughty school boys as we organised ourselves to make silly calls to members of the congregations who could possibly take a joke!