Pastors / Leadership Archives

Left Behind: World at War opens theatrically in churches the weekend of October 21-23. Churches may have as many screenings over than weekend as...

Complaining is sinister because it involves the assertion of self to secure one's comfort, rather than the denial of self to promote God's glory....

Your church is a 'good' church. The music is tolerable, the people are fine, the sermon is okay. But the whole experience slips over your soul like...

For the youth minister, it’s not easy being urban because there’s a need for green, along with a need for resources, attention, training, and...

The Presidential Prayer Team - one of the good things to come out of 9/11 - just relaunched its website in honor of the anniversary, and will be...

The people in your church's small groups are like mountain climbers on a mission. They're meant to be teammates who grow together as they reach for...

Down through the centuries, Matthew 28:19 has come to be known as The Great Commission.

How can pastors and church leaders reach out to people who have lost everything? Who do you turn to if your church has been struck by Hurricane...

Few questions have plagued the church like the one swirling around the issue of leadership qualifications (I Tim. 3:1-7; Titus 1:6-9), and few of...

The president of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) feels America has not truly utilized its enormous wealth to...

Are you preparing your sermon for next Sunday or for eternity? An old story tells about an aged street evangelist who preached on Matthew 22:13:...

Natural evil comes without a moral agent. A hurricane ravages, a tower falls, an earthquake shakes, a tornado destroys, a spider bites, a disease...

Burnout reveals itself in several ways. In coping with the stress of pastoring, some preachers have become reclusive and withdrawn. As soon as they...

The mainline Protestant denominations continue to debate the question of homosexuality in extended and excruciatingly inconclusive controversy. In...

Even early church fathers acknowledged that in doing the good work of the ministry, pastors sometimes neglected one of their most important duties:...