Pastors

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?

Gossip is toxic. All throughout the scriptures, God warns us against it. But here are three situations where you might be gossiping without even realizing it.

Endurance is a quality consistently found among great leaders. It is a sister to resilience, as the ability to “bounce back from a setback.” Endurance is the ability to just keep going regardless of the obstacles and pressure.

I don’t know about you, but I’m really tired of all the negativity—much of it oozing from my own heart. Here are three tangible ways we can balance our complaining and negativity with thankfulness and gratitude.

A non anxious presence describes a personal quality that when a leader exhibits it, can keep a family or a group’s overall emotional reactivity and anxiety down.

Nothing is more important to a pastor—personally and “professionally”—than their own communing with God. It is from their time and study in God’s Word, and their communing with God in prayer, that they serve from.

"You be you" is a statement of one’s individual right to judge what’s best for himself, regardless of what others say or think.