Articles for Pastors

God’s No Is a Yes

Life for the Christian who is captive to this earth, and captive to the church, is going to be a series of no's again and again.

7 Practical Tips to Help You Stop Working 7 Days a Week

One leader approached me a while back and said the one thing he knew would change everything for him was to stop working 7 days a week. The problem was, he had no idea how to actually rest well. Here are 7 tips for slowing down when you don't know how.

3 Ways to Treat Your Predecessor

Here are three ways successors should treat their predecessors.

Why the Holy Spirit Is Not Casper the Friendly Ghost

When we hear people talking about the Holy Spirit, it’s not uncommon to hear people talking about the Holy Spirit in terms of an evangelical version of Casper the Friendly Ghost.

12 Traits of a Humble Leader

How do you know if you're a practitioner of humble leadership? These 12 indicators will give you an idea.

Want to Know Jesus More? Read the Old Testament

We cannot be followers of Jesus and unfollowers of his own Scriptures. Therefore, it’s no different for us than for those earliest believers: When we want to know more about Jesus, we need to look for Jesus in the Old Testament.

How God Sees Us: God Doesn’t See You As Ordinary, So Why Do You?

How God sees us is not the way we often see ourselves. Do you know what God thinks about you?

A Three-Legged Stool for Extraordinary Prayer

Without a resolute commitment of 1) Time, 2) Attention and 3) Community, our efforts to learn to pray in life-transforming ways will always fall short.