Articles for Pastors

“Can I speak to you, confidentially?”

There is a tendency among evangelicals to misunderstand what following Jesus really means. Preaching from the book of James, Pastor Glenn Packiam explains that true faith is inextricably linked to obeying God—and consequently to fighting for justice.

When at last we no longer see through this glass dimly, and we perceive more of the ways of God than we are now fitted to see, then we will gaze at the eternal impact of one ordinary pastor with an ordinary ministry.

"You have nothing to prove. You have nothing to earn."

Barnabas Piper knows what you might be thinking: his divorce is not how God would want things to happen. Here are his thoughts on the experience.

Will you lead your people back to church? Who is coming back to church, and when? Then again, is it really about “coming back?”

This is not a new debate, not a new opening discussion question, and not a new title for an article or section in a book. Wise writers often hedge with a “surely both” response, but I believe leaders are made.

Unhealthy staff members just can’t function, hide their toxicity or survive in a healthy environment.