Pastors

Multiply Yourself for Ministry

Some pastors outgrow their jobs. Others find their jobs outgrow them. As you multiply your ministry, you must grow yourself.

The Church Staff Brainstorming Session: Is There a Better Way?

Research indicates that a number of individuals working alone will generate more diverse and better quality ideas than the same number participating in a brainstorming session.  

Fighting for Your Marriage When Life Beats You Up

Divorce rates among families with disabilities, infant loss, or special needs are high, and it’s no surprise. When the rest of your circumstances demand a fight, it can be hard to stick up for each other. It takes extra effort to fight for your marriage.

WHAT!?! Instructions to Not Sing at Church?!

Perhaps some would love to limit religious liberty, but I don’t read instructions to not sing during a pandemic when inside as necessarily an attack on my religious liberty. There are other biblical postures of worship that were not addressed in the instructions.

Is the Bible Always Literal?

When I say the Bible is always literal, I mean that it always gives primary importance to what it means to give primary importance. The Bible always and perfectly says exactly what it means to say.

5 Steps to Break Ongoing Sin Patterns in Your Life

Do you know people who struggle with recurrent sin patterns? Are you that person, even as a church leader? If so, here are some steps to breaking those patterns.

Leaders Need God’s Vision of the Church

Pastor Derwin Gray talks about what the Church is, what it's not, and how it is supposed to operate.

The Irony in the Quest for Equality

"Every man and woman has been created in the image of God and is deeply loved by him, regardless of his or her sense of sexual orientation."