Pastors / Leadership Archives

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...

Modern church leaders fancy themselves businessmen, media figures, entertainers, psychologists, philosophers, or lawyers. But is that biblical?

Is it a surprise that our church team sputters at times? Maybe we should function more like a football team...

A number of years ago, I realized that I was, as it were, trying to teach frogs to fly. Frogs can’t fly. Not only that, they get angry when you try...

Few career tracks in the marketplace have a dynamic quite like that of being a minister's wife.

What's it like to preach on the morally problematic passages of the Old Testament in connection with modern, Christian faith?

I was recently asked to net out some of the types of churches currently shaping practice and thought around the United States.

There is no shortcut to spiritual success. Studying the Bible takes time and it should be studied in its entirety.

As leaders we have the same expectation as Peter: the expectation of a crown from Jesus because we have given up all to follow Him.

Three ministers were having a friendly dinner when the subject of martyrdom came up. What would it be like if they were actually called upon to...

Why does it matter whether we believe that God upholds and governs all thing? Ten reasons.