Pastor Blogs Archives

You have bigger things to do today than talk about a football game. Any pastor who questions that should go back and examine his calling.

I suggest work is a learned skill, and we would do well to teach our children to work and to enjoy it.

Some of the staff was told by the old pastor that it is common practice for the staff to also put in resignation letters and leave with the old...

The day a pastor announces he is leaving is like losing a member of your own family. It can cause stress and grief beyond what you know or can...

Affection isn’t quite identical to kindness or even love. Put it this way: to do ministry well, you need to not only love people, but like them....

Ministry Leaders are always looking for new ideas to keep their Bible studies, ministry areas, or Sunday School classes flourishing. Here are a few...

Anglican Christianity, which stems from the Protestant Reformation, is one of the largest Christian traditions in the world.

Recently I had a pastor ask me for my “best advice” for other pastors. That’s hard to say. I’ve learned so much through the pastors who have...

If what’s behind your adoption or orphan ministry isn’t a crucified, eyes-open, war-fighting commitment, the end result could be a twice-orphaned...

When the enemy attacks the church, God’s people panic and flee like chickens in the barnyard when a hostile dog arrives.

What if a person has musculoskeletal health problems that prevent them from being thrown backwards under water?

The pulpit regulates the spiritual condition of God’s people which affects the nation. A lukewarm, sex-saturated culture (and church) simply...

I often lament the institutional church’s diminished role in society. Yet embedded in this challenge I envision an opportunity to reimagine our...

Think of how much of the Bible contains stories. A preacher has to learn how to preach from narrative passages eventually.

Jesus shows us what the kingdom of heaven looks like and asks us to live its principles here on earth. This means turning normal personal economics...