Pastors

Those Christians who pause each Sunday morning to go to church need a pastor who has taken the time to read, think, and pray; someone who can deliver the good news in with power and insight. That starts with books for pastors capable of deepening our own life in Christ.

A young pastor asked me a great question once. His question was this: “What are the worst leadership traits that you’ve seen limit a leader’s potential to lead well?”

If you want to know how God works, and if you want God to work in your life, you have to be part of the church.

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