Articles for Pastors

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.

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."

Why Following God’s Will Isn’t Supposed to Be Easy

Being in God’s will doesn’t guarantee a tension-free job, a conflict-free marriage or a trouble-free life.

Congregations Don’t Want a Hero, They Want a Pastor

If you asked a few hundred church members from multiple churches what they want in a pastor, what do you think they’d say? You don’t have to wonder. Thom Rainer asked that question a while ago and published the top ten responses on his blog.

Your Captivating Call to Eternal Glory

For over a year, I have been unable to shake this thought. I am called to His eternal glory in Christ. What could this mean in our daily lives?