Pastors

But, positional authority is limited in effectiveness; and so it should be used rarely. People may do what you say, because of your position, but they will not always do it with as much passion.

Preaching a Sunday sermon involves more than delivering creative ideas by gifted thinkers.

Those of us taking a Sabbath rest, not those working hardest for Jesus, are the ones who are actually the most spiritually mature.

Sounds simple, right? It really shouldn’t surprise anyone. But even though most churches say they’re friendly, some of them really just mean their members are friendly to people they already know.

There are some who sit from a distance and take to criticizing a pastor. These people do the church a disservice.

Many other pastors, though, are reactionary leaders—which means they aren’t really leading at all.

The ultimate problem of every human being is that we are blind to God.

Two things I had come to believe were secure forever (apart from my relationship with God) were my 21-year marriage and my calling as the Senior Pastor of a megachurch. I lost both during the spring and early summer of 2015—due to my own moral failure and selfishness.