Pastors / Leadership Archives

While the sustenance of a church is important, it is equally important to appreciate the value of the members you do have.

In leadership, we must ask the critical questions that moves the organization forward. But we must also be willing to own the answers that we are...

I’ve heard about the seven deadly sins but I’m wondering which sins they are. Why are they more deadly than any other sin?

Far too many people leave their church prematurely and without biblical warrant. The evangelical church today is infected with a disease...

As believers, I am not sure we have any other option but the Gospel Option. We must plant or cultivate churches. We must disciple believers.

My hope cannot be found in my rule keeping or performance before the Lord. So, why do we love rules?

Culture is the comprehensive, penetrating context that encompasses our life and thought, art and speech, entertainment and sensibility, values and...

The highest compliment the pastor could give was to dial that brother first when a crisis occurred.

Maybe I’m just a toenail, but the body needs that toenail, and I can only do what the body needs if I am connected and healthy.

Some things you will never figure out in this life. Some mysteries you will eventually see–or the Spirit will reveal them to you or someone much...

Refusing to forgive someone is spiritual suicide.

Jesus warns his followers many times in the Bible that they will suffer for their faith and be persecuted. As Christians in the West, it’s tempting...

Over the years I’ve seen that one of the most powerful moments in a new believer’s life is the realization that there is such a thing as a false...

Even though I’ve been a Christian for almost 30 years, there are still things I don’t remember hearing from the pulpit.

The core of the Easter message is the new life available to every person because of the redemption Jesus provided through his death and...