Pastors / Leadership Archives

Your pastor needs to know that what he does week in and week out means something to God as well as those for whom he labors.

Finding the right Church is never easy. I should know, after moving to the East Coast, I spent an entire year just sifting through the local...

What does evangelistic preaching sound/look/feel like? Here are eight characteristics.

Drawing near to God requires that we listen before we speak. Guard your steps when you go to the house of God.

Biblical church life is about serving, about sacrificing, about giving, and about putting others before our own desires and needs.

Expecting people to turn loose of a portion of their income without being taught why is like pitching your kid in deep water and expecting him to...

Pastor Shane Idleman says that Christians can reclaim secular holidays and celebrate in a way that leads to the fruits of the Spirit.

The enemy loves it when influential and passionate churchgoers stop serving and stop influencing others for the kingdom because they are...

The way to tell that the voice you are hearing in your spirit is the Lord and not yourself involves the following…

Jesus clearly thought salvation was a one-time-and-done proposition. Something permanent, solid, irreversible.

There’s a catch-phrase that’s been around “Meck” (Mecklenburg Community Church, which I pastor) for a long time: “In essentials, unity; in...

Church visitors, it would appear, can be a troublesome lot. Always demanding to be greeted warmly, seeing that as their right and as the...

Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, beware these four pastors who bring untold calamity on whatever church they inhabit.

With the added commitments that church life brings, many active, committed Christians are drowning. What can we do?

What if I gave you a list of ten things that any church could do that would bring almost immediate renewal and growth. Would you be interested in...