Articles for Pastors

"I’m convinced that the greatest deterrent to our giving is this: the illusion that earth, as it is now, is our home."

On marrying a non-Christian: "If you think you are lonely before you get married, it's nothing compared to how lonely you can be AFTER you are married!"

Bold leadership behind a pulpit is one thing; boldness in a city council meeting is another. Bold leadership is most clearly seen when you’ve burned your bridges and put your convictions on the line.

Porn kills sexual intimacy...but why is that? In order to understand the power of pornography and why porn is so destructive, we need to ask why Jesus warned us that lust is wrong.

What if the truth is that this pandemic might not just be serving the church, but saving the church? What if the path most churches were on, if not forced into a radical redirection, would have guaranteed their continued marginalization, irrelevance and decline?

I recently sat down with two clinical psychologists, Dr. John Townsend and Dr. Buddy Mendez, to talk about mental health. They shared with me that “whatever level of stress, anxiety, or depression a person had before the pandemic has been greatly escalated by the pandemic.”

True friends (lifelong friends) are hard to find, mostly because over time people change, as do we. But when shared values, shared life experiences, and shared seasons meet, we look over and discover there is a friend waiting with whom we can often link arms.

The pulpit does not make pastors infallible.