Articles for Pastors

After a large event with a big spike in new visitors, your attendance reports are going to look pretty nice for a week or two. But it doesn’t take long for reality to set back in as you see a return back to your regular pattern in the weeks to follow.

Comparing your church to another church can be one of the worst things you do as a church leader.

There are many leadership mistakes we make as pastors. This post is only about one mistake, but one of the worst.

How do we handle so many disagreements within the church and tensions between the church world and the broader culture we live in?

It’s often difficult to discern the level of your spiritual growth when you are professionally immersed in spiritually oriented church work.

The following article is an excerpt of Revitalization of Southside Baptist Church. Copyright 2018 by Dr. Harry Fowler. Southside Baptist. A once grand—but now shrinking—church. Southside Baptist...

Many a pastor and/or staff member would still be in ministry today had they sought the counsel of church leaders on some practice they were contemplating.

Although I've earned two seminary degrees and I appreciate what I learned in seminary, I've learned many key lessons as a pastor that seminary never taught me.