Articles for Pastors

Preachers and Sneakers: These Pastors Paid How Much for These Shoes?

A lot of people are shocked. Some are outraged. How can these pastors wear such expensive sneakers?

How to Have a Difficult Conversation: 3 Practices

When learning how to manage people, one of the best lessons is knowing how to have difficult conversations with the people on your team. Here are 3 practices that will help you.

How to Grow and Serve Effectively According to Timothy and Paul

As leaders we cannot successfully walk through ministry alone. We must be connected to people who are ahead of us in the journey, people...

Do People Tell You Not to Read ‘Those Books’?

I urge pastors to take an hour occasionally to sit in the periodicals section of their public library and browse all those magazines no one has never heard of.

Essentials of a Great Ministry Resume

There are definitely a few dos and don’ts. I’ve listed below some essentials of a great ministry resume.

Scripture Memory Wasn’t for Me

The memorable discovery was not that I, with my bad memory, surprisingly could memorize big chunks of Scripture, but that doing so yielded joy. The exercise, the discipline, of reciting and repeating forced me to meditate on Scripture in ways I hadn’t done before.

4 Principles to Get and Give Better Feedback

If we want constructive criticism, we can’t just be open to it. We have to ask to get feedback. And we have to ask regularly and honestly.

Top 4 Questions About PKs: Pastors’ Kids

As a pastor to pastors, these four questions about parenting PKs are the ones Janet and I get the most at conferences and date nights.