Articles for Pastors

Need Volunteers? Maybe Your Staff Is Too Big

Many churches hope (and pray) for different results, but they’re unwilling to change their systems and strategies. You can’t have both.

Is Personal Growth on Your Pastoral Calendar?

Personal growth is not a luxury reserved for sabbaticals or crises. It is an essential part of faithful pastoral leadership. If it is missing from your calendar, it will eventually show up as fatigue, frustration, or diminished joy.

7 Rules of Engagement for Theological Debate

"Do all the work necessary until you can articulate the views of your opponent with such strength that he says, ‘I couldn’t have said it better myself.’"

10 Ways to Renew (or Keep) Your Passion for Ministry

If going to work in the morning is a battle, perhaps these suggestions will help.

A Christmas Sermon 1,700 Years Old (From St. Gregory of Nazianzus)

Celebrate this Christmas with those believers who have gone before us. Here is a Christmas Sermon from St. Gregory of Nazianzus (AD 380).

Use Anxiety to Your Advantage

We can go to him with our worries, even when our hearts feel unsettled about our marriages, children, jobs, retirement, or health care.

3 Ways of Showing My Love

"Communicating love to a spouse should be considered a never-ending, life-long commitment."

10 Things Every Congregation Should Stop Arguing About

Arguments are inevitable when people care deeply, but some conflicts simply aren’t worth the emotional bandwidth. The path to maturity gets clearer when the body of Christ chooses unity over trivia.

“What Led You to Become an Atheist?” Reasons Young People Leave Christianity

On the whole, this research offers a lot of encouragement to churches that preach the whole Bible with evangelistic passion.

3 Marks of a Healthy Church Culture

"The fruit of a healthy ministry is developed leaders who multiply the ministry and expand the kingdom."

Philip Anthony Mitchell’s Sermon on Sin Goes Viral as Pastor Calls Out Porn, Abortion, and Occult Practices

Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell delivered a sobering sermon at 2819 Church in Atlanta, urging believers to confront sin with urgency and abandon any casual...