Pastor Blogs Archives

I have a heart for leaders. Especially church leaders. I’d love to help others learn from my mistakes. In fact, that’s a huge motivation for this...

Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research, has been consistently coming out with interesting and relevant perspectives on the Christian faith, the...

One of the challenges in any sphere of life, particularly ministry, is staying creative. And it’s an important challenge.

Worry will hinder our faith, cloud our focus, and rob us of our ability to see clearly the good works of the Lord.

What do pastoral internships look like at our church? Here's what's expected.

Apologizing is hard, especially in the outrage culture of social media. It becomes easy to see life as a political campaign in which the goal is to...

The knee-jerk “change or die” reactions seem to have dominated the how-should-we-do-church conversation. Stetzer’s analysis offers a seasoned,...

The drive to be genuine has become the willingness to describe church life, cultural events, and even personal experiences as unvarnished as...

Three out of ten families with children today [in the United States] are headed by a single parent. That makes this group one of the largest...

In a recent interview surrounding my new book, The Rise of the Nones: Understanding and Reaching the Religiously Unaffiliated (Baker), I made the...

While claiming to order their lives according to fact , not faith...what the agnostic doesn't realize, however, or willfully ignores, is that he is...

Letter to a friend whose wife died this week.

Picture this: You are talking with someone about a problem. A ministry that isn’t growing, a child that isn’t behaving, a wife that isn’t feeling...

Upon Avonlea’s birth, I decided to write her a letter. This is an excerpt from it. I share it to remind all grandchildren how much they are loved...

Is Jesus really appearing to Muslims to convert them? Extraordinary stories about this phenomenon keep appearing around the world lately.