WARNING – ATTENTION NEEDED NOW! As I was greeting new attendees to a recent Church Management Seminar, many of them presented the same scenario: “We have a good CPA, but we just came out of curiosity.” By the time we arrived at the morning break, all of those who had presented that scenario approached [...]
The Anointing is not Protection against Breaking the Law He was one of the most anointed preachers that had ever graced the pulpit. Without anointing with oil and praying for anyone miracles would happen at times while he was preaching. He was so anointed that if he spoke it, it happened. But, then one [...]
Does Your Church Have Proper Sexual Harassment Guidelines? The “#MeToo” movement has brought sexual harassment to the forefront of today’s society. Every day on TV, the radio, internet, or newspaper, someone new is coming forward with Sexual Harassment claims. It is without doubt that many if not most of these claims are true based [...]
An Old Scam with A New Twist Pastor Jones called our office, upset that he had received a call from “the IRS.” The individual who had called him told him that the IRS had deposited a refund into his bank account in error and that he needed to forward that refund to them immediately. [...]
If Pastor Jackson Would Have Listened, He Wouldn’t Be In the Trouble He Is In He had attended an earlier Church Management and Tax Conference and heard me teach that a Pastor could not claim all Housing Allowance and no Salary. In our conferences we teach that Housing Allowance should not exceed 50% of [...]
Did the Pastor Receive the Proper End-of-Year Tax Document? This is the time of the year when people all across the nation are filing their individual income tax returns. In the secular world there is no question as to which form an employee receives from the employer. Unfortunately many Churches are confused as to [...]
Questions You Must Answer as You Begin the New Year God has blessed us to see the dawn of a new year. Many people around the world use this time to make New Year’s Resolutions, most of which will be broken before the month has ended. But, what about your Church? Are there some [...]
Removing Stress from Ministry It is a proven fact that Pastoring/Leading a Church can be very stressful. According to some reports, Pastors have the fourth highest suicide attempt rate in the USA. A question we should all ask ourselves is, “Why?” Shouldn’t Ministry Be A “Piece of Cake” If God called the [...]
Be Careful of the Advice You Choose to Heed People, all over the world, shop for bargains. Christians and the Church are no different. One of the reasons Christians and Churches do it, is to be good stewards of God’s money. However, when it comes to the advice you receive as to how your [...]
New Mileage Reimbursement Rates and How They Affect the Pastor and Church During this time each year Pastors begin gathering their tax information for the upcoming dreaded, personal tax returns. Pastors have many tax benefits which are not afforded the average tax payer. One of those benefits is the mileage deduction which allows the [...]