Pastors / Leadership Archives

Engaging with the lonely church-goer is an important part of living in community with others--in being a part of the body of Christ.

We expect those called as role models to be examples of grace of humility. Unfortunately many preachers are victims of their own egos.

It was startling to me (after a recent experience with altitude sickness) how sensitive the human body is to a lack of oxygen in the air we...

Contextual intelligence is the ability to spot opportunity where others don’t.

Saul's journey reveals some important markers of leadership and greatness for church leaders today.

It is no secret to any of us that we live in an age that is increasingly skeptical about the very concept of truth.

When I ask people how churches received them as visitors, two complaints are voiced: “No one spoke to us” and “The people seem cliquish.”

It’s so easy for a preacher to exhibit fear when standing before the church and calling the congregation to faithfulness and righteousness.

It turns out that mental illness shares the same first rule as Fight Club: you don’t talk about it.

Media ministry should supplement real-time ministry, not replace it—yet many are inclined to do the latter.

Top-notch preaching most attracts people looking for a new place to pray.

We must admit racism exists and fight it where it does.

The Christian intellectual influence we should seek is the influence of an intellect saturated in Christian truth, keenly applied to the questions...

The local church is the authority on earth that Jesus has instituted to officially affirm and give shape to my Christian life and yours.

After the long debate before gay marriage was made legal in 2015, a survey shows that since then Protestant pastors have rarely been asked to...