Church Leaders Update Archives

Over the last five years of ministry I have had the opportunity to be in various roles, and under the leadership of incredible people. Here are 10...

Kevin DeYoung says, “If you look around your congregation and people are barely singing, there is something wrong with your worship services.”

If we’re to stop the mass exodus, we have to take a hard look at what’s happening. Here are the top 5 reasons why people say they are done with...

The church ought to see itself as a leadership factory that stirs up the gifts of God in people, not an auditorium that gathers people behind a...

Some leaders in the American church are "tone deaf" to the realities of the changing culture, and this will ultimately lead to a moment of crisis....

Do Millennials prefer traditional or contemporary worship? Perhaps blended? The direct answer is "none of the above."

As important as a Christian mind is and the cultural commission inherent within it to engage the world accordingly, such pursuits are merely...

About once a week… or sometimes more frequently… I get an email or tweet from someone who says they feel led to plant a church. They almost always...

Nothing prepares you for how ministry can drain you emotionally, leaving you in pain or, even worse, feeling numb or in despair or with seething...

Burnout can occur in the physical, emotional, and spiritual areas of life. Sometimes it affects only one or two of these areas, but it often takes...

Abortion is not a new issue. It wasn’t even particularly novel in the first century. In fact, various ways of causing an abortion had been in use...

A few years ago, I was lovingly confronted by a dear friend and fellow pastor that I was not using all my vacation time. In his rebuke, he...

How do we communicate the Gospel in an increasingly anti-Gospel world? One of the leading Christian thinkers of our day has some ideas.

For some, this is a time of lament. For others, it is a time of renewal and revival. I want to offer my reflections on the three different phases...

As a little girl, 'playing church' was great fun and a delightful way to pass an afternoon. Playing church is, however, a pathetic and meaningless...