Pastors / Leadership Archives

As a white Christian, I admit, it's hard to even know where to start. It’s easy to post a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote on social media and let the...

Today, too many secondary issues, especially on how best to apply Christian morality and truth to the public square, have been made primary. Now...

We’re free to love each other. We’re free to listen to each other. We’re free to be led by one another. We’re free to serve one another....

After nights of rioting and violence across America and even right outside the White House, the president punctuated his speech by walking from the...

In many ways, reopening is more difficult than closing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Let's realize the load that's on our pastors and leaders—and...

If you are a teaching pastor of a church, or in leadership of a church, this blog is for you. Everyone else can eavesdrop. You need to do a series...

The initial reports about the George Floyd case—as with so many of the others—are bewildering. A man is dead, and for that we should weep. Yet,...

When it comes to a theology of race, there are four headlines: 1) We were all made by God; 2) We were all made in the image of God; 3) We were all...

Some people look at caution in love and call it fear. They want action! Meanwhile, others look at bold, courageous action as presumptuous and...

There will be no going back to a pre-pandemic church. This is because those who were reached during the pandemic and those we hope to reach when...

You have access to God, intimate fellowship with him and your identity is sealed in him—all because He is your father. Jesus with these two words...

The devil may come to rob, steal, and kill, but as believers we can fight back because we have weapons. We also have the confidence in knowing that...

Hubris represents the kind of pride that brings wreckage of all kinds. However you may have seen hubris operate around you or however much you have...

There are lots of mountain peaks across over a half-century of ministry. And more valleys than I care to remember. The main thing I can say about...

In today's self-focused world, 'bearing your cross' is viewed as a trap or a burden. In truth, bearing your cross, and dying to self, is the only...