Articles for Pastors

The longer I follow Jesus, the more I realize I’ll never mature past the Gospel. You see, you never grow past the Gospel, but hopefully you’re constantly maturing in the Gospel.

Do our prayers convince God to change his mind by reminding him of something he had said, something that he had apparently forgotten about?

Church leaders ask Jen Oshman to give them advice on starting a women's ministry in their churches.

Jesus indicates that it is possible to gain the whole world but lose your own soul. If he were talking to us as leaders today, he might point out that it is possible to gain the whole world—including the world of ministry success—and lose your own soul in the midst of it all.

If a pastor isn’t careful, they will only preach on the things they find important. This can be good and bad.

In an age of disenchantment, a world in which people are starved by superficiality, we need writers and pastors and artists who can feed us with the wonder of existence.

God’s metrics are not our metrics. The way in which we seek to measure fruitfulness and faithfulness is often quite skewed.

Paul has a lot to say about redemptive suffering in 2 Corinthians. That's encouraging because the criticism pastors experience has a lot to do with why being a pastor is one of the most stressful jobs there is.