Pastors

If you want accountability, you’ve got to take that responsibility on yourself.

I’ve never had a church leader come to me and say, “We have too many church volunteers.” Instead, we hear the opposite time and time again: how do we encourage volunteer recruitment?

Here are a few of the commands through which God reveals how he desires for believers to live out their Christian lives organically with other believers in the local church.

Why do you follow the leaders you choose to follow? The key word in that question is “choose.” We all make a deliberate choice to follow who we follow. No one follows a leader by accident.

We desperately need prophets. We desperately need spirit-filled leaders to call the church to holiness and faithfulness. What we don’t need more of is resentment disguised as courage.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Love Your Enemies" speech is as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.

Biblical forgiveness is a gift to the offender. We release another person’s debts for their sake and for Christ’s sake. But there are myths surround forgiveness that keep us from biblical forgiveness.

Some churches struggle to hand significant responsibility to younger leaders, to empower younger leaders to launch new initiatives, and to joyfully allow themselves to be led by a new generation.