Pastors / Leadership Archives

As a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ, faithful pastor, you know a great many things. But there is so much we do not know.

Some pastors would be surprised–and embarrassed–to know the things going on in his church.

Recently I had a pastor ask me for my “best advice” for other pastors. Here are 12 words of encouragement for pastors.

Revelation was basically written to Christians under persecution to encourage them to persevere. Don't give up! Jesus Christ is going to win!

If you are in Christ, thank God every day that he has raised your soul from death.

Listening to the gripes of the Lord’s people is standard fare for ministers. They ought to teach courses on it in seminary.

Churches do programs and ministries which no one will ever partake of except themselves. Then they wonder why so many pews went unfilled.

It’s easy to feel as if the congregation thinks they own every moment of your and your husband’s time.

Change, no matter how necessary, is never easy. Along the way, I’m learning a few things.

The anemia of evangelical worship—all the music and energy aside—is directly attributable to the absence of genuine expository preaching.

Conservative studies indicate one out of four girls and one of six boys will be sexually abused before reaching 18 years of age, regardless of...

There should be a foolproof way to guarantee that a new pastor is everything he claims to be and all the committee hopes he is. There isn’t.

My family doesn’t observe Lent. I’ve never been a member of a church that observes Lent. I wouldn’t tell you to practice it. But I’m not going to...

We Christians tend to be opinionated about church. We know what we like and what we don’t.

The Shack is now one of the best-selling paperback books of all time, and its readers are enthusiastic. But the theology is not incidental to the...