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Pastor, do you feel a pressure on Easter unlike other Sundays? What if we simply preach that Christ was crucified, buried and rose again?

It's easy to take shots at large churches.But I am convinced that any church of any size can be learned from, and that includes large churches.

Looking for great preachers, it would appear, was never on God's shopping list.

Our imperative to fulfill Christian leadership in the digital world is not technological. We should not use this technology simply because it is...

Sometimes it is the redefinition of a word or phrase that is at the heart of our most important cultural transformations – and challenges.

I do not know what tends to occupy your life. If you are like most people, including myself, it trends toward the trivial and mundane.

Christians have throughout the centuries—and most especially following the Protestant Reformation—arrived at very different understandings about a...

Nothing restores your “mojo” (momentum, enthusiasm, your heart for this work) like pulling aside periodically to renew your commitment to the Lord...

“Lack of conviction is the nullification of leadership,” writes Dr. Albert Mohler in his latest book, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for...

Mike Blackaby says we must be “colliders,” people who do not hide from pop culture, but rather engage the world through it as a believer in Christ.

While I was in Zambia, I missed a very important funeral and a sudden open heart surgery of one of our elderly members. Because of this, my time in...

If I don’t do crazy things for God, am I wasting my life? Am I not being crazy radical enough? I don’t think so. Here’s why: being a Christian is...

Only one job in the world requires expertise in, well, everything. We expect our pastor to be an expert on any pressing issue in our lives.

Prior to Constantine, the church, although organized, was less institutional and more communal or organic. In other words, the outside world didn’t...

What would you do if you knew your neighbors were being murdered for their faith?