Pastors / Leadership Archives

Compared with the kind of preaching found in most churches today, what was it about the preaching of Haggai and Zechariah that resonated with such...

Natural disasters like the earthquake in Japan do not need to be placed in the context of a judgment from God. But if earthquakes are not God’s...

Many millions are suffering at this moment. May we, the Church, serve God well by serving them.

How will Satan attack your church? Does he have a primary strategy, one that seldom fails?

Most pastors' conferences are flashy events with rock bands and presentations from megachurch pastors who talk about their great successes, usually...

To this day I can catch myself tuning out during sermons, especially when the preacher mires down in some biblical lesson. But the moment that he...

Francis Chan, author of the 2009 book about the Holy Spirit called The Forgotten God, now is featured in a film from the BASIC series on the Holy...

An unexamined youth ministry is a youth ministry not worth doing.

Most of us who have given our lives to serving God have had a love-hate affair with the Lord's Church. We hear the not-so-new calls of "Jesus Yes,...

Jesus commanded us in Matthew 5 to "give to the one who begs from you." I know all the major reasons why not to give when someone asks, but this...

If you thought seminary took too much time and money, but were also convinced everyone lacked easily-accessible theological education, what would...

How can Christians respond positively to the acceptance of homosexuality and gay marriage in mainstream culture?

God has not commanded husbands to love seminary. He has commanded that we love our wives and strive to protect our marriages, even from something...

Is the proclamation of God's Word merely a human dialogue---people of rather equal status speaking to each other? Does having a sermon undermine...

The truth is that anyone wishing to influence culture should aspire to become a master communicator, for it has marked most of our world’s shaping...