Articles for Pastors

Some pastors live their entire lives without problems, serving church after church with a string of unbroken successes. What sets these pastors apart?

Eugene Peterson has deeply shaped my outlook on life, spirituality, ministry and pastoring—probably more than anyone else. He will be deeply missed. I’m not here...

“If you don’t reach young people your church is going to die.”

In my silence and my speech, in my actions and inaction, I sinned against you, against women in my churches, against women in the SBC, and against women in the world. Of you and them, I ask—forgive me.

Gospel advancement cannot be divorced from the power of prayer. Nor should prayer be divorced from the need for gospel advancement regionally, nationally and internationally.

So what are you looking for? Certainly gifts and abilities are a factor, but second only to character. And what are we looking for in terms of character?

Though we may never know what Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” was, this seems to be a reasonable explanation for it...

If our calendar is consistently crammed, with little-to-no white space to be found, we’re probably running on emotional fumes.