Articles for Pastors

Joe McKeever: "There seems to be a lot of pain out there in the pastor/member relationship."

So, trembling teacher, it’s good to feel the weight of your responsibility. It’s good to realize that this work shouldn’t be taken lightly. Preparing to teach should be a careful and diligent process, one that is steeped in prayer and study and conscientiousness.

As leaders, we must move as quickly as we can to the transformer stage. We must believe that there are great moments in the midst of the constraint. We must be learners in this season.

Look at the methods of the master communicator, Jesus.

Pastor David Platt has a challenge for American Christians: Devote yourselves to prayer. If you are willing to do that, God will move in incredible ways.

Unlike the Jesus and me gospel, putting one’s faith in Christ means more than simply being saved from one’s sins and living one’s own life. When a person receives Christ as Lord, that person’s whole life will be transformed by the mind of Christ.

Churches rarely adapt quickly enough to changes in culture in order to have a relevant voice.

Why does God allow the coronavirus to exist, to spread, to kill? Fundamentally, there is a truth that lies at the root of the answer to that question: Our relationship with nature is broken.