Articles for Pastors

With every new technology, humanity eases toward the path of least resistance in actions, some of which are completely self-serving at the expense of others. They are rude behaviors.

How you begin your sermon is vital. It can mean the difference between your listeners checking out or deciding to pay close attention.

Pastoral counseling can be gut-wrenching. On a weekly basis, you are invited into the darkest moments of a person’s life. This leads to sights and images which you can’t eliminate from your memory.

Should you preach politics from the pulpit? Well, not exactly, but something I've discovered is that the Bible speaks to every issue that intersects with our political debates.

These are the stories of TURNAROUND Churches. All of the pastors mentioned were careful to give glory to God, but they did mention six common themes worth noting.

God is not an American. Even though the phrase “God and country” is popular, it is problematic. It turns Jesus into an American patriot and conflates religion and politics, yielding a false god made in America’s image.

A lot of ministries begin with a bang, then explode with new growth. But after the initial growth, they plateau. I have seen this repeated thousands of times from pastors I’ve talked with over the years.

Epaphras was a faithful minister and a spiritual giant whose example we would do well to follow.