Pastors

if we embrace the kind of healing available to everybody who is broken and in pain – we’ll have to let go of some things that are quite precious to us. That's the cost of healing.

The people you are most afraid of losing are the people you most need to lose. Truthfully, you can’t afford to keep them.

I might have lusted after some celebrity pastors in my twenties, but these were the faceless, nameless pastors who were on the phone with me at midnight, or meeting me for coffee randomly to discuss my marriage issues, and helping me make important life decisions.

Cohabitation is becoming more widely accepted as an alternative to marriage, the result that marriage is being delayed or disregarded altogether. Cohabitation is here to stay. How do we counsel those for whom living together is the expected norm?

While I can respect Rick Warren’s decision to challenge the SBC’s decision to disfellowship Saddleback, I would be remiss if I did not propose an alternative: join an egalitarian denomination instead.

As a leader, you must have good communication, it may be to 30, 300, or 3,000, but there simply is no option. How effective you are is up to you.

It is through our bodies that we do God’s will in the world. Our bodies are very integral to our spirituality. Body and spirit are connected, integrated, and united. What happens to one affects the other.

All churches become chronologically older every year, but why does an aging church remain young, vital, and more spiritually fruitful than others?