Pastors

The holiday season has arrived again, bringing a flurry of activity—parties, delicious food, time with family, gift exchanges, and gatherings with friends. Yet, for many, this time of year also stirs up an all-too-familiar and sinking feeling of loneliness.

Mental health struggles, family dysfunction, financial strain and other hardships are often magnified during the holidays. The reality of life, the hardships, pain and hurt—and the loneliness of it all—makes people yearn for goodness in this season. 

Poverty is the leading cause of children being placed in orphanages worldwide. Four out of five children in orphanages globally have a living parent, and almost all have other living family members. 

To serve means to see and act on serving people the way Jesus did. Jesus brought the best out people.

Do you know the distinguishing differences between being the leader and supporting the leader?

Most pastors are nice people, they just don’t make good friends. Hear me out: being a good pastor might make you a bad friend.

Pastors, ministry teams, and developing key leaders must work together to create a healthy leadership culture in which ministry teams members partner with staff members to provide intentional leadership over an area of ministry.

There's no shortage of advice for Christmas sermons -- and we need all the help we can get! Peter Mead of BiblicalPreaching.net offers 15 practical suggestions for Christmas sermons.