Pastors

5 Ways to Motivate Staff

To motivate staff and volunteer leaders in the church or in any organization begs the question: How can we do it better? David Rock, author and speaker, offers fresh insight from neuroscience about how we can best motivate others.

How Grace Grows

We have created a Christendom where we can choose churches the way most people choose restaurants: according to our individual tastes, as if grace grows by Yelp reviews.

7 Encouragements for Worried Leaders

The fact you worry shows you are normal, human, and conscientious as a leader. You want to be successful and the natural reaction is to worry when you feel you may not be.

Ed Stetzer: 3 Challenges in Urban Ministry

Urban ministry engages depravity, longevity and community.

12 Truthful Marriage Vows You Won’t Hear at a Wedding

While I’m not against writing marriage vows Casanova would applaud, I am against vows that are more romantic and emotional than practical and honest. Here are 12 truthful vows you won’t hear at a wedding.

Discerning Temperament Helps Heal Disagreements

I have been thinking often of the diversity of personalities (each person's unique temperament ) represented in the church, and how that diversity plays into the heated conversations that we have online.

John Piper: How to Overcome Sexual Sin

John Piper discusses how many of us miss the point in overcoming sexual sin. In his response, Piper described the current struggle in stark terms.

7 Easy Ways to Ruin a Great Sermon (and How to Fix It)

What’s the difference between a sermon that changes someone’s life and one that no one can remember even as they drive out of the parking lot?