Articles for Pastors

In my experience too many Christians are taught to avoid subjective experiences with God. At the close of William Sampson’s wonderful book, Meeting Jesus, he asks, “What was the color of Jesus’s eyes?”

We flourish when we worship God.

I know more about the famous the rich and the beautiful than I probably should, and I know less of Heaven’s beauty than I should. I may know all about Tay-Tay, but what do I know about spiritual celebrity?

Here are five messages that pastors dread hearing after preaching. Pastors, I am going to hypothetically respond in ways you have been tempted to respond, but have loved people too much to do so.

So you’re invited to preach at someone else’s church. Or a conference. Or a chapel service. The venue doesn’t really matter. What does matter is not committing one of the seven deadly sins of guest preaching.

What do you do when you realize you have to lead, you will not make everyone happy, you won’t get all YES votes, and yet you so desperately crave everyone to applaud your decisions? In other words, how do you lead as a people pleaser?

Rather than equipping the saints, too often, we tell those we lead what to think, what to do, and how to do it. Do you have a healthy church? Take this checkup to find out.

My pastor, the late Dr. Adrian Rogers, always told us young preachers that if God has called us to be pastors, we should not stoop to be kings.