Articles for Pastors
10 Christian Leader Qualities From the Scriptures
Christian leader qualities, as indicated in 1 Timothy 3:1-15 and Titus 1:5-9, should be the core of the approach to leadership.
Pastors
Convenience or Connection: What’s Our Ministry Motivation?
It’s a request I see posted fairly often. It goes something like this: “Looking for a user-friendly curriculum. Video-based preferred. Something easy for volunteers, low-prep and easy-to-follow.”
Pastors
It’s Time for a Relational Inventory
In taking your own relational inventory, begin with the three basic types of people in your life: those who drain you, those who are neutral and those who put gas in your spiritual tanks.
Pastors
R.C. Sproul: Biblical Scholasticism
Nothing evokes more snorts from the snouts of anti-rational zealots than appeals to sages from the era of Protestant Scholasticism.
Articles for Pastors
15 Time Management Tips
I make no claim to be an expert at time management. What I am is a seminary dean, education consultant, church consultant, and local church pastor who has been forced to learn how to budget time. Here are some time management tips that have worked for me
Pastors
How the Nature of God Shapes the Organization of the Church
God is the infinite and the intimate. He is powerful and personal. He is organic and organized. This gives us insight and guidance to the organization of the church.
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Involving Ourselves in Every Controversy?
Part of the pernicious underbelly of the internet is that many allow themselves to be drawn into controversies about which they have no need to involve themselves.
Pastors
Politics Won’t—And Can’t—End Abortion
Regardless of your personal political leanings, abortion is, in fact, a moral issue. It’s an issue for all of us. Importantly, it’s an issue for all believers.