Pastors

Jesus offers his followers the kind of life that results in rest and peace. Yet Christians are thrown from crisis to crisis as if...

Do you make a practice of enjoying the presence of Jesus? Just as 2,000 years ago, Jesus welcomed sinners, he still welcomes sinners like us into his presence by his Spirit.

Loving your neighbor as yourself is, for good reason, a well-known biblical charge. But we often ask, as does the lawyer interrogating Jesus in the passage where this mandate appears: Who is my neighbor? 

For decades, the church—and more specifically youth leaders—have been challenged to communicate to the next generation. Yet, generations come and go, and it seems that they are not adequately reached, won or discipled to become Christ followers.

Working in ministry is a beautiful calling, but it can also be disappointing when you find yourself faced with situations in which Christians don’t behave like Christ. 

One of the more difficult aspects of hermeneutics when approaching the fourth gospel is to know how to interpret historical details in a book that includes literary vehicles of symbolism and typology.

Sit down at church this weekend and take a look around you. The odds are good that someone nearby has had an abortion—and the odds are even better that, having had an abortion, they feel utterly unable to talk about it with a single one of their fellow believers. 

About 30 years ago, the pastor of a small church mobilized his congregation to change the lives of the children in the local foster care system. This true story is at the center of "Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot."