Articles for Pastors

We all tend to do things that sabotage our health, emotional well-being and ministry effectiveness. Start the new year by pledging not to do them anymore.

Chronic anxiety, the low-level anxiety we seem to never shake, fuels emotionality and shows up in eight ways that I call “the eight F's of chronic anxiety.”

The early church began in a time where the culture was shifting, political and religious leaders didn’t agree, and the fledgling churches had their own internal problems.

Although there are true blessings for pastors that serve four years or less, there are other blessings that really begin to accumulate after five years.

Every leader needs the blessing of positive criticism from the ranks of the membership or team or congregation.

Every pastor and church leader feels them at some level, and if you look at the issues they cause inside us, around us and in our churches, it’s troubling.

No church wants to make a bad hire, but many do. Sometimes that happens despite search teams, elders, etc., doing their job well—but it also happens because the team ignores some warning signals.

Pastors set the tone in our churches, and sometimes our tone is terrible.