Church Leaders Update Archives

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...

This post is for people who are praying seriously about the possibility of serving overseas in long-term cross-cultural missions. It may help you...

How should Christians respond to the gay marriage decision?

Is there any evidence for the existence of Jesus besides what we have in the Bible?

Christians face increasing pressure to get rid of “outdated beliefs”—even from those who claim to be Christian themselves. But to do so is to deny...

Every pastor who still wants to be in the ministry five years from now needs to take a day or two off each quarter to hit “refresh.”

A majority of young people consider themselves as possessing some sort of faith. However, at some point the message the Church is sending doesn’t...