Pastors / Leadership Archives

A look at some of the challenges we're facing and ways that elders and deacons can help their congregations prepare for them.

The Rev. Jim McCloskey has been laboring nearly 30 years to exonerate innocent prisoners. He recently hosted a gathering in his yard to celebrate...

While Britons may think of America as its juvenile and impetuous offspring, Great Britain has surely become our senile grandmother...

Preachers today may be a little queasy talking about sin. It sounds so negative. And most of us assign our own heirarchy to sin. But Jesus talked...

I'll be blunt -- I hated all 101 minutes of it, but I believe that all serious-minded Evangelical believers should see this film (without paying to...

Our political and social policies should grow out of our theology, not vice versa. We are not to reverse engineer our theology based upon our...

The Islamic worldview fails to correspond with reality at every point. Why does this matter? And, what is the Christian response?

Some people think pastors should endorse candidates from the pulpit. That doesn't strike me as a good idea, and here's why.

For those of us in ministry, what is the truth about homosexuality and other moral failure?

Every girl has at least one female nemesis in life. Mean girls exist everywhere, and the church is not exempt. Here are some steps I have taken to...

Families affected by sexual addiction are a growing demographic. This is a problem too big to ignore and too delicate to address without a deeper...

Ralph Douglas West is the founding pastor of The Church Without Walls (Brookhollow Baptist Church) in Houston.

In a new report, Ellison Research found that 36 percent of all adult Americans say they have “no idea” what characterizes an evangelical. Even...

The “Preach the Word” Conference begins tomorrow in Columbia, South Carolina. Some of the speakers include Alistair Begg, Ligon Duncan, and...

Through Modern Parables, Thomas Purifoy uses film to bring modern contextualization to Jesus’ words. He hopes these “sometimes radical” accounts...