Articles for Pastors

A Pastor’s Sabbath: What to Do When Sabbath Is Sporadic

Failing to rest is failing to lead myself well, and this will result in failing the people God’s entrusted to me. I am in this calling for the long-haul.

What’s More Important for Your Church: Growth or Control?

The church has been on the front lines of some of the greatest humanitarian crises of the past few decades. The church has 2.3...

5 Things You Should Never Say During Church Announcements

Announcements at your church don’t have to stink.

Sin: Whatever Happened to the “S Word”?

A reclamation of the word sin in our cultural and ecclesiastical climate would inevitably bring with it a greater sense of the need that we have for a Savior.

10 Indicators You Have No Margin in Your Life

Margin is the space between our load and our limits.

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.