Articles for Pastors

"Porn has made me not want women, but their pieces and parts."

Affectionate pastoral ministry is the example of the Apostle Paul, who modeled both zeal for orthodoxy and zeal for the people of God themselves. Pastors have an ever-increasing joyful and affectionate longing to be with and labor for the people of God.

What do you think when you hear "thought life" or "life of the mind"? This doesn't seem to be a phrase unique to the...

Gaining influence doesn’t happen on accident.

If church conflicts were handled according to the clear processes outlined in Scripture, maybe fewer people would be bailing on the church.

If you are in leadership, you’ve experienced some political fine lines that can become land mines if you don’t know where you are stepping, and you can find yourself in trouble fast.

Satan tempts us to not fear sin, so that we will not keep a safe distance from it. That's Satan's strategy.

God does not normally strike people down. In fact, Jesus resists his disciples when they want this to happen (Luke 9:54). This kind of striking-down is rare in the New Testament; we only have two substantial cases of it occurring: the story of Ananias and Sapphira.