Pastors / Leadership Archives

No one volunteers to become knowledgeable about grief. Life hands you the assignment by robbing you of someone whom you love dearly.

It basically all comes down to one thing: who do you trust? If you’re in ministry, you presume it should be easy for you to trust God.

The battle over assisted suicide is not merely another skirmish in the “culture war.” It is an expression of one of the biggest threats to...

Jesus says true freedom comes from the “light and easy” work of being in the harness alongside him.

Recent decades have provided Christians with an increasing evaluation of and interaction with various world religions. The growth of immigration...

The wreckage of the Sexual Revolution is all around us. Even in our churches and our pulpits.

Who would have ever imagined that research could be a vehicle for evangelism? But if God could proclaim his prophecy through a donkey (see Numbers...

Christianity is an explanation of historical data, which is, in fact, one of the things that sets it apart from nearly every other religion.

What do you do when your church changes? Grow with it.

In Haiti, I needed boldness. My experience reminds me of Peter and John, who when brought before the council in Jerusalem, stunned the Pharisees...

For a book on life-affirming leadership, Jeremie Kubicek's Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It begins with a surprising amount of...

Over the last five years of ministry I have had the opportunity to be in various roles, and under the leadership of incredible people. Here are 10...

Too many churches look at things from the inside. They think about what is easiest for them, best for them or makes sense for them. They don’t...

The church ought to see itself as a leadership factory that stirs up the gifts of God in people, not an auditorium that gathers people behind a...

Some leaders in the American church are "tone deaf" to the realities of the changing culture, and this will ultimately lead to a moment of crisis....