Pastors / Leadership Archives

As I read a letter from a volunteer, I couldn’t help wondering: is the church really the hope of the world?

Here is my list of ten things the beginning (or rusty or occasional) speaker seems not to know, but needs to learn quickly in order to be...

The nature of the gospel, the role and purpose of God’s law, the relationship between justification, sanctification and union with Christ, and how...

Theology professor Gordon Kaufman, author of God the Problem in 1972, died around the same time as John Stott. Similarities between the two men end...

How can you tell when spiritual growth is taking place? Where are the markers?

The Bible is neither vague nor equivocal on the prophetic promise of Christ's return. Here are nine reasons from Scripture by which you can be...

When the Holy Spirit builds a movement of believers to love the least among us, well, you’re seeing the invisible kingdom made visible.

I do not think it too strong or sensational to say that we are witnessing the collapse of Western civilization. Across the Western world, the...

I can’t help but notice that we as ministers spend more time preaching to make people feel good than drawing the body of Christ into a deeper...

Acts 8 tells the story of Philip the evangelists' one-on-one encounter with a seeker in the desert...

We are not without hope when we have the arduous task of reporting an instance of abuse or counseling the abused, now grown.

Paul Tripp's article "Pastoral Ministry is War" got me thinking: hasn't the Lord already won that war?

Throughout the first decade of the new millennium, multiple studies—revealing a crisis among youth in the church—seemed to appear almost every year...

The Bible can transform our lives. It also can transform your church.

Scripture is of no use to us if we read it merely as a handbook for daily living without recognizing that its principle purpose is to reveal Jesus...