Pastors / Leadership Archives

Milk many cows but make your own butter.

A Christian pastor has been effectively disinvited from delivering an inaugural prayer because he believes and teaches Christian truth.

When is it okay for a member or attender of your church to leave? First, let’s state the obvious. It’s never just "okay."

Don't tell an abused woman: “If you had more faith and weren't wavering in your emotions, God would heal this marriage.”

The idea of culture "keepers" is significant. There are aspects of culture – a nation’s culture, a church’s culture, a family’s culture – that must...

Why would a pastor shy away from preaching a message on giving? The answers are many and complex, but most boil down to one: He’s afraid.

You might make some great strides this year. I’m hoping to. There are a lot of improvements I’m hoping to make over the next 12 months. But don’t...

The church is a place worthy of a life fully spent; the church is a place where someone can make a difference with their one and only life – maybe...

The Mayans were wrong about the calendar. But they weren’t wrong that the arc of history is headed toward something cataclysmic.

Vertical Church is a book with both strengths and weaknesses—very helpful strengths and very dangerous weaknesses. If you can thinking discerningly...

When you study the era that Dickens wrote about when he published A Christmas Carol in 1843, you realize that it was dark and evil. And that the...

When evil unveils its ugly face, we must turn to God and bare our souls. Each part of this tragedy finds a God standing ready to hear the cries of...

Even in the face of such a tragedy, Christians must speak. We will have to speak in public about this evil, and we will have to speak in private...

Tolkien's works demonstrate that it's possible to have a dark childhood and still possess a remarkable and life-affirming imagination.

Bullying, one of the least recognized, anti-family forces today, is causing more people to leave Church.