Pastors

The five insights below from Nehemiah’s response to his chronic critics give us a good template to follow when we’re criticized.

I’m sure that pastoring a church has always been difficult. At the same time, though, it seems much harder today than it was 35+ years ago when I started in full-time pastoral ministry.

Sometimes, isolation has been the result of COVID expectations, but this problem preceded the pandemic.

Yes, there is a devil. He is our archenemy. He will do anything in his power to bring misery into our lives. But Satan is not sovereign. Satan does not hold the keys of death.

Wisdom is rarely gained on the run, skimming the surface, in the autopilot nature of daily life. Here are four layers to gaining wisdom

This popular distinction between happiness and joy hasn’t always existed in the church. What’s true of one will be true of the other.

Without any fanfare or big declarations, people leave religion behind or chose a different faith. And yet we only have a very basic understanding of the mechanisms that make all that happen.

Rather than asking, “Why would a good God permit suffering?” Let’s reframe our thoughts on the point of suffering to say, “How loving of God to allow me to suffer, and therefore know Him and prepare me for the weight of glory” instead.