Church Leaders Update Archives

Pastors can be notorious for digging ourselves into a hole at the start of the sermon, unwittingly making God’s message an uphill struggle. If...

In just a few weeks, the fifth annual Church & Culture Conference will take place at Mecklenburg Community Church (Meck) in Charlotte, NC. If you...

A powerful force called Urban Transformation Ministry (UTM) is working to improve the national issue of fatherlessness. Will your church join their...

Cringing in fear, we may avoid preaching or reading the Old Testament stories. Yet they play a vital role in the redemption narrative. We can’t...

Debates about what beliefs and practices are acceptable for Christians are nothing new. But they rarely involve essential Christian beliefs, such...

The church is called to not slander, rebel against, condemn, or otherwise make things harder for our leaders. Here are five biblical ways to build...

It takes 20 hours to prepare a message – and 20 minutes for men to forget it. God’s Word is preached thousands of times each week. Why isn’t it...

Instead of seeing abuse survivors as tutors leading us toward compassion like Jesus, we repel them. With the crisis of sexual abuse in our midst,...

It’s never become clearer that we need love to heal us. Divisions abound and fear saturates too many of our relationships. What does the church...

Excommunication is the most severe expression of formal spiritual pronouncement in the process of church discipline. Excommunication is not...

Obviously, any sort of murder ought to shock and alarm any person, and usually does. Few people, except the terrorists themselves, will justify in...

Before Jesus steps onto the scene in the New Testament, God reveals himself in a number of ways in the Old Testament. These appearances, known as...

Battles hit us in many forms. You feel helpless, hopeless, despairing, angry, hurt, anxious, and worse. What do you do now? Here are 5 ways to...

The holy grail, a supposed “Christian” relic, has dotted the lines of medieval literature. This cup, or cauldron, or stone (depending on which...

I’m for government policies to protect the family and to care for the poor. I’m for missions activity for people I’ll never see or know. But I have...