Pastors

Life will likely not return to the old "normal" we experienced prior to the onset of the pandemic. And, truth be told, for most of us it shouldn’t. It certainly shouldn’t for much of Christ’s church.

“What is the matter with the world?” Martyn Lloyd-Jones asked. “Why . . . war and all this unhappiness and turmoil and discord amongst men? . . . There is only one answer to these questions—sin. Nothing else; it is just sin.”

When considering reasons not to homeschool we must also understand that there are also families in our congregations that cannot educate their children at home for various reasons, most of them noble and sincere.

Much attention given to pastors at conferences is pointed to a stereotype of a younger pastor. A person who is often overlooked is the more senior pastor who has been ministering with excellence for decades.

There are secrets the pastor's wife will never tell you. I asked a panel of pastors’ wives, “If you could tell the church a few things about your role, what would you say?” Their responses were strangely similar.

In any local church, you’re dealing with a conglomerate of unique individuals. To shepherd them is kind of like herding cats, just harder!

While there are many potential characteristics of a sick church, I have found 10 symptoms to be consistently common.

If resources aren’t accessible, churches can sometimes default either to “we’ll try to build our own” or “we just don’t offer that here.” So, how do we get all parts of the Church working better together?