Church Leaders Update Archives

If the people around me never judge me and never call my actions to account, do they really love me?

The Bible provides more than 600 references to heaven, and we can gain incredible joy and fresh vision for our lives on earth as we read and...

Honestly, I have some scars from being caught in a few of these snares. Maybe I can help other pastors to go around some of these.

We work and study in this world, but we don’t belong here. We are Heavenites – citizens of Heaven.

For the last two years, students from around the world have come to Washington D.C. to be immersed in God’s Word for 10 weeks at Immanuel Bible...

They call you Preacher because nothing you do is as important or as critical to the work of the church as your preaching.

No matter what others believe—no matter how they treat us or what their religious beliefs say about who we are—Jesus calls us to love them as we...

Even now, believers pour over scripture looking for clues to Christ’s reappearance. Jesus himself told the disciples he’d return soon, so where is...

Women have incredible value in the body of Christ; just read the Bible and you will find godly women who were instrumental in God’s plan.

You are not going to build a great church on your preaching. Not. Going. To. Happen.

Songs and prayers of lament for the world instruct our congregations in appropriate ways of grieving and longing in the body of Christ.

Sometimes we forget how terrible the situation is for all who don’t know Christ.

It’s no secret biblical literacy is on decline. Every major researcher on faith trends seems to be reporting it.

Debilitating shame is highly toxic and very destructive, and it will always move us further away from God.

What if we all lived as if we didn’t deserve anything good—ever? How different would the world be if we saw every good thing in life as a gift of...