Pastors / Leadership Archives

The median worship attendance at a typical congregation has declined – again – from 130 to 108.

How do you have staying power when ministry gets tough?

As a woman begins to serve in ministry with her husband, she quickly learns that the life of full-time Christian service is not the exalted and...

I'm a veteran. A veteran minister. I received the call to preach in April of 1961, which means we have recently passed the half-century mark for...

It is not just a theoretical question — it is a pastoral dilemma faced by almost every pastor.

I told a story to our church this past weekend as part of the ending of a series on parenting. The more I’ve reflected on it, it’s about why I do...

Whereas the Hun nation and our Bible-believing churches have absolutely nothing in common, the similarity between Attila's leadership task, and the...

Some evangelicals talk as though personal evangelism and public justice are contradictory concerns, or, at least, that one is part of the mission...

If the ecclesiocentric view of the church’s mission tends to focus on the building and maintenance of the institutional church (a place of...

What exactly is the church’s mission? In order to answer this question, we must first accurately define the gospel.

You can’t be the kind of Christian you’re meant to be without other people.

Who is and is not an evangelical? With whom should evangelicals cooperate in Gospel efforts, and who not?

It’s time someone wrote a book for the church titled 'Whatever Became of Evangelism?'

Calvin is too important to leave him frozen in caricature, and he’s too significant to leave him simply to his tribe of theological partisans. He...

If you're wondering what exactly is meant by the term "liturgical church," here's your answer.