Pastors / Leadership Archives

There is a trend of declining evening attendance in evangelical denominations that long have cherished a heritage of worshiping twice on Sunday....

We do like our leaders to be human and to show their humanity from time to time.

For the past several weeks I have been attempting to outline a Christian response to Islam, Muslims, and the politically contentious issue of the...

Christians are commonly told to "have faith" in our spiritual lives, but can those very words serve as a stumbling block in our walk with Christ?...

Driven by population shifts, immigration, and human reproduction, massive new cities are springing up all over the globe. Will the church rise to...

At first glance—and probably, at second—this passage from chapter three of the book of Judges does not seem like a promising source of humor. And...

We’re wanting the world to marvel at our hip glasses, hip graphic tee’s, hip tattoos, hip sound and lights, hip vocabulary, hip message titles, hip...

Where some Christians fret over the loss of Christian consensus in America and the growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated, we see great...

If anything, Murphy is an equal opportunist - the people of God know him well. Scripture is filled with godly men and women who never saw him...

As has been well said, there is no such thing as a bad short sermon or a long good one.

There's been a lot of recent discussion about how we got the New Testament. What's if it's not all Dan Brown-style fiction?

Though thousands of people still attend churches around the world, very few truly experience the connection between God’s design for the church and...

As the pastor of a Bible-believing church, I'm often asked whether or not I am a dispensationalist. I hesitate to say yes because of several...

Sometimes I think I should start a new file: really dumb culture wars that do more harm to Christianity than good.

For many churches, the biggest requirement for a “worship set” is novelty. We’re aiming for an experience. So we put together a worship service...