Articles for Pastors

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Helping Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

I’ve been a pastor for 23 years now, but I, like every other pastor I know, was completely unprepared for leading a church through a global pandemic in a time of tremendous social unrest and political division. Here are thoughts from one depressed pastor.

Jesus the theologian. Jesus Christ is the greatest theologian of all time; He read, interpreted, and applied the Scriptures in a masterful way, and taught others to do likewise.

“God has brought great awakenings and massive church growth during times with and without church buildings.”

You have to believe something better is possible and make a plan to alter the slow slide into loneliness.

We need to examine how we are speaking to and about the bride of Christ. After all, "from heaven he came and sought her, to be his holy bride; with his own blood he bought her and for her life he died."

We must insist that church is essential, but we must be careful not to subtly or overtly send the signal that our form of church is better than some other form.