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Studies have shown that many pastors and church staff are burning out. The current state is taking its toll.

We shouldn't be building our personal ministries based on criticism of the rest of the body of Christ.

The nationwide explosion of legal gambling may well be the most underrated dimension of America’s moral crisis.

"Those mistreated in the ministry cannot say they weren't warned."

Pastor Kevin DeYoung, author of "Why We Love the Church" weighs in on the third way beyond emerging and traditional that PCA minister, Jim Belcher, proposes in his thought-provoking book, Deep Church.

Here are ten ways churches signal newcomers that they are not wanted.

With God's help, you can leave behind the painful memories of difficult church experience.

"You must be really good at your job," my father-in-law said the other day. "Because the devil is working really hard to keep you out of church work."

Ask.com recently presented their top 10 predictions for 2012, based on the top trending questions posed by their 60 million users from January 1 – November 15, 2011.

What would a set of New Year’s resolutions look like for you and your church?

Deacons and other mature leaders of the church have a responsibility probably not spelled out in their bylaws, but as necessary as any given them in scripture or by the membership: Be on a constant lookout for trouble and troublemakers within the congregation.

Most of us love our pastors and want the best for them. Find out how to bring your pastor daily encouragement.

There are some classic reasons why churches say they don’t allow online giving...

Protect your church leaders from sexual impurity.

Christians should resist the human impulse to irrationally hate anything or anyone "big."

Why do our evangelical Lord’s Supper services so often look like the clinical communal rinse-and-spit of fluoride at an elementary school rather than like a loving family gathered around a feast table?

Love the church as it is now even as you dream of what God may do in the days to come.

The median worship attendance at a typical congregation has declined – again – from 130 to 108.

That’s a place and a context I had not thought about too much until I read Richard Phillips’ book Jesus the Evangelist. Based on a series of expositional sermons, this book teaches the principles and practice of witnessing by looking at the model of Jesus in the first four chapters of John.