Pastors

Leaders love to win. To make progress. To see results. The bigger, the better. Meanwhile, the small victories, the everyday wins, go by unnoticed. And therein lies the problem.

"I recommend that all full-time pastors and staff receive a three-month paid sabbatical every six or seven years."

There is no virtue in being ignorant of the truth of Scripture. In fact, knowledge of God's revelation in the Bible is never frowned upon in Scripture.

As a Christian, a parent, and a pastor, I know I need to think wisely about technology. I make lots of decisions personally, for my family, and for the church I pastor around technology—ranging from the use of social media in our home to how we approach ministry online as a church.

Growing in God's strength raises a couple of questiuons: How do you do a task in the strength of another? How do you exert your will to do something in such a way that you are relying on the will of another to make it happen?

There is often a chasm between our expectations of life in relationship with God and what God has actually promised, particularly between God’s definition of a blessed life and ours.

Among many pastors and church leaders today there is a popular rationale that proclaiming truth is the viable alternative to rebuking false teaching. Rather than wrestling with false teachers and their heresies, they’re content to cover their eyes, plug their ears and “stay positive” in their teaching.

When outrage and anger become our default, we lose all credibility and, in my opinion, become poor ambassadors for Christ.