Pastors / Leadership Archives

I would have never chosen Christianity and other things I learned in a self-interview.

Here we go again. Joel Osteen is in the news again, this time for saying that Mormonism is just another form of Christianity.

How can a pastor's wife best support her hubby in his most important task?

Leaders say encouraging questions about faith can bolster belief.

Love the church as it is now even as you dream of what God may do in the days to come.

So many are questioning the Bible and Christianity. But might this, perhaps, indicate just how faith and spirituality are still very much 'live'...

Just once, I’d like to see a TV interview with a pastor about homosexuality go more like this...

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...