Pastors

Nobody except a pastor can fully understand the excitement that comes with a first pastorate. What I didn’t know then, though, was that the pastorate often brings its own types of pain capable of hurting pastors.

This weekend, we celebrated the most crucial, world-changing, heart-rendering, paradigm-shifting, life-reorienting truth in the universe: Jesus is alive.

I’ve always been a bit unsettled by Jesus’ reference to the Canaanite woman as a “dog.” But I noticed something a few nights ago when our associate pastor was teaching on this passage. I’d never noticed this thread before and I think it’s actually the key to understanding the passage

It seems like all “we” do is preach about problems without actually doing something about them.

Central to the mission of the Church is offering a compelling witness to the life-saving and life-transforming power of the gospel message. In other words, we are called be relevant. 

Since God is the Creator of all things, the extent of His realm must be the whole world. Manifestly, then, the kingdom of God is wherever God reigns, and since He reigns everywhere, the kingdom of God is everywhere.

In 1984, Francis Schaeffer wrote a book titled "The Great Evangelical Disaster." It was a jolting shift from cultural critique to cultural confrontation with clear political overtones.

You are first a disciple of Jesus before you are a leader for Jesus. Here are 5 ways your life as a disciple shapes your effectiveness as a leader.